Holocauste et colonialisme. Contribution à une archéologie de la pensée génocidaire
The Holocaust and colonialism. Contribution to the historical background of genocidal thinkingThe invasion of Poland and the Soviet Union by the German Reich was without doubt a significant war of colonial expansionism. The Nazi officials with Hitler at their head justified this policy of expansioni...
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2008
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | The Holocaust and colonialism. Contribution to the historical background of genocidal thinkingThe invasion of Poland and the Soviet Union by the German Reich was without doubt a significant war of colonial expansionism. The Nazi officials with Hitler at their head justified this policy of expansionism with clear references to colonial history. However, not all researchers consider the Third Reich’s policy of expansionism in terms of colonial history. In fact, historical research deliberately ignores the structural similarities between National-Socialism and Colonialism. One can get the false impression that Hitler was not really interested in building a colonial empire if one does not pay enough attention to the fact of how this “colonial empire” would have modified the world map.Fifty years ago, Hannah Arendt highlighted the link between imperialism and the totalitarian phenomena and posited the thesis that imperialism played a role of a precursor to the National-Socialist ideology. In those days her analysis was hardly accepted. Yet a comparative study of these two phenomena leads us to see in the Nazi expansionist policy a transformation of the colonial phenomenon. Still the understanding of the relationship between Colonialism and Nazism is a highly political issue, hampered by arguments on the uniqueness of the Holocaust which also belongs to the philosophy of history and issues of identity. |
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