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This article discusses three aspects of air power in South Africa during the period between the t... more This article discusses three aspects of air power in South Africa during the period between the two world wars, each one intermeshing with debates about what kind of political and social space the Union could claim for itself beyond its borders on the continent. First, during the First World War and in its immediate aftermath the advance of air power raised the question in what way the tense relations between Afrikaners and English speakers would be influenced by this new technology. Second, aviation offered new methods of control of the African majority and of other recalcitrant groups. Third, the progress in aviation technology, compounded by the international tensions in the 1930s and European armed intervention in East Africa, alerted white South Africans to the perils of their diminished geographical isolation at the southern tip of the continent.
Journal of Namibian Studies, Dec 2012
Discussions on the history of the concentration camps in German South West Africa during the Here... more Discussions on the history of the concentration camps in German South West Africa during the Herero-Nama War (1904)(1905)(1906)(1907) have concentrated primarily on the relationship to the mass murder of the Jews during the Second World War. This article considers the earlier history of camps in southern Africa by shifting the focus from genocide to a history of internment and closely controlled labour. The harsh practices in the labour compounds in South Africa suggest that African experiences of extreme forms of incarceration predated the period of the German concentration camps in Namibia, although on quite a different scale. A broader history of violence and regimented labour may open perspectives that have been neglected in the narrowly framed discussion of historical linkages and continuities between the wars in colonial Namibia and Eastern Europe.
International History Review, Sep 2013
Heyden, Ulrich van der und Heike Liebau (Hg.), …, Jan 1, 1993
Mark Levene & Penny Roberts (eds.), The Massacre in History. New York and Oxford, Jan 1, 1999
In order to define genocide, Helen Fein has proposed a catalogue of questions which not only seek... more In order to define genocide, Helen Fein has proposed a catalogue of questions which not only seek to ascertain the degree of organisation of the perpetrators and the authoritative level at which their genocidal strategies are conceptualised, but also the ideologies, myths and articulated beliefs which justify (or question) such strategies.(1) This chapter, in describing how a German colonial war escalated into the near-annihilation of a whole African people, seeks to consider both the contemporary and historiographical debate regarding the policy making, planning and, indeed, rationalisations of the perpetrators.
Carole Fink and Bernd Schaefer (eds.), Ostpolitik, 1969 - 1974. European and Global Responses. , 2009
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This article discusses three aspects of air power in South Africa during the period between the t... more This article discusses three aspects of air power in South Africa during the period between the two world wars, each one intermeshing with debates about what kind of political and social space the Union could claim for itself beyond its borders on the continent. First, during the First World War and in its immediate aftermath the advance of air power raised the question in what way the tense relations between Afrikaners and English speakers would be influenced by this new technology. Second, aviation offered new methods of control of the African majority and of other recalcitrant groups. Third, the progress in aviation technology, compounded by the international tensions in the 1930s and European armed intervention in East Africa, alerted white South Africans to the perils of their diminished geographical isolation at the southern tip of the continent.
Journal of Namibian Studies, Dec 2012
Discussions on the history of the concentration camps in German South West Africa during the Here... more Discussions on the history of the concentration camps in German South West Africa during the Herero-Nama War (1904)(1905)(1906)(1907) have concentrated primarily on the relationship to the mass murder of the Jews during the Second World War. This article considers the earlier history of camps in southern Africa by shifting the focus from genocide to a history of internment and closely controlled labour. The harsh practices in the labour compounds in South Africa suggest that African experiences of extreme forms of incarceration predated the period of the German concentration camps in Namibia, although on quite a different scale. A broader history of violence and regimented labour may open perspectives that have been neglected in the narrowly framed discussion of historical linkages and continuities between the wars in colonial Namibia and Eastern Europe.
International History Review, Sep 2013
Heyden, Ulrich van der und Heike Liebau (Hg.), …, Jan 1, 1993
Mark Levene & Penny Roberts (eds.), The Massacre in History. New York and Oxford, Jan 1, 1999
In order to define genocide, Helen Fein has proposed a catalogue of questions which not only seek... more In order to define genocide, Helen Fein has proposed a catalogue of questions which not only seek to ascertain the degree of organisation of the perpetrators and the authoritative level at which their genocidal strategies are conceptualised, but also the ideologies, myths and articulated beliefs which justify (or question) such strategies.(1) This chapter, in describing how a German colonial war escalated into the near-annihilation of a whole African people, seeks to consider both the contemporary and historiographical debate regarding the policy making, planning and, indeed, rationalisations of the perpetrators.
Carole Fink and Bernd Schaefer (eds.), Ostpolitik, 1969 - 1974. European and Global Responses. , 2009
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