David Olusoga and Casper W. Erichsen - The Kaiser's Holocaust

Financial Times“An important book, bringing this neglected story to public attention...” Olusoga and Erichsen have thus succeeded not only in authoritatively reviving a fascinating episode from a neglected past, but also in requiring a reassessment of some of our assumptions about the European colonial legacy....

The Telegraph“Provocative and uncomfortably absorbing...” A grimly readable history. If the comparisons between colonial Namibia and Nazism do not always quite convince, the book remains a vitally important addition to the ever-growing literature of atrocity and deserves to be read widely...

Scotsman“An important book...” Nazi genocide, they argue, did not find its origins in the carnage of the Great War and the "injustice" of the Versailles peace treaty: it was pioneered by the Kaiser's representatives in German South-West Africa...

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