UC Irvine
The History of German
Colonialism and Imperialism Series
Jürgen Zimmerer
Professor, Universität Hamburg
"Race War and Cultural Genocide in German
~ Thyssen Lecture Series ~
Southwest Africa”
Commentator: Bob Moeller
Professor, History
UC Irvine
Monday, April 23, 2012
2:00 PM, 1010 Humanities Gateway
UC Irvine
Since the centenary of the beginning of the Herero and
Nama genocide in 2004, a fierce debate has erupted about
continuities between the first German genocide, the German
war crimes during World War II, and the Holocaust. The
discussion has concentrated on the similarities between racial
warfare in Africa and Eastern Europe. However, this focus on
war and genocide in the Omaheke desert and in African
concentration camps has ignored the fact that the military
genocide was part of a larger colonial project aimed at the
establishment of a racial utopia based on cultural genocide.
This lecture will present recent findings on the race war and
put them into the wider context of cultural genocide.
For event information please contact Ulrike Strasser, strasser@uci.edu or
(949) 824-6522.
The Thyssen Lecture Series is hosted by
the History Department at UCI and IICAS
at UC San Diego, and sponsored by the
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung Foundation.