A Sad Fiasco : : Colonial Concentration Camps in Southern Africa, 1900–1908 / / Jonas Kreienbaum.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Kreienbaum, Jonas,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: War and Genocide ; 29
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ILLUSTRATIONS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER 1 THE CONTEXT: COLONIAL WARS IN SOUTH AFRICA AND SOUTH-WEST AFRICA --; CHAPTER 2 THE PURPOSE OF THE CAMPS --; CHAPTER 3 HOW THE CAMPS FUNCTIONED --; CHAPTER 4 DEADLY LEARNING? OBSERVATION AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER --; CHAPTER 5 COMPARATIVE REFLECTIONS ON COLONIAL AND NATIONAL SOCIALIST CAMPS --; FINAL OBSERVATIONS “A SAD FIASCO” --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789203271; 9783110997729
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789203271?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jonas Kreienbaum.

Only in recent years has the history of European colonial concentration camps in Africa—in which thousands of prisoners died in appalling conditions—become widely known beyond a handful of specialists. Although they preceded the Third Reich by many decades, the camps’ newfound notoriety has led many to ask to what extent they anticipated the horrors of the Holocaust. Were they designed for mass killing, a misbegotten attempt at modernization, or something else entirely? A Sad Fiasco confronts this difficult question head-on, reconstructing the actions of colonial officials in both British South Africa and German South-West Africa as well as the experiences of internees to explore both the similarities and the divergences between the African camps and their Nazi-era successors.