Contextualising colonial violence: Causality, continuity and the Holocaust.
This article considers the problems that arises in linking colonialism and colonial violence to the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust. Links between colonialism and the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust, have again become popular with the increased focus on colonial violence. In German colonial histor...
| Publicado en: | History Compass Vol. 19; no. 12; pp. 1 - 11 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2021
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