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05241aam a22005898i 4500 001 27E9EBB4026711E89DEE1C1997128E48 003 SILO 005 20180126010225 008 160930s2017 mauab b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2016040430 020 $a 0674970632 020 $a 9780674970632 035 $a (OCoLC)959649913 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c HLS $d DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ger 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a DD104 $b .K8713 2017 082 00 $a 909/.09712430821 $2 23 100 1 $a Kuss, Susanne, $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2016138582 240 10 $a Deutsches MilitaÌr auf kolonialen KriegsschauplaÌtzen. $l English 245 10 $a German colonial wars and the context of military violence / $c Susanne Kuss ; translated by Andrew Smith. 263 $a 1703 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a vi, 386 pages : $b illustration, maps ; $c 25 cm 500 $a "An earlier version of this work was first published as Deutsches MilitaÌr auf kolonialen KriegsschauplaÌtzen: Eskalation von Gewalt zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts (c) Christoph Links Verlag GmbH, Berlin 2010"--Title page verso. 520 $a Germany fought three major colonial wars from 1900 to 1908: the Boxer War in China, the Herero and Nama War in Southwest Africa, and the Maji Maji War in East Africa. Recently, historians have emphasized the role of German military culture in shaping the horrific violence of these conflicts, tracing a line from German atrocities in the colonial sphere to those committed by the Nazis during World War II. Susanne Kuss dismantles such claims in a close examination of Germany's early twentieth-century colonial experience. Despite acts of unquestionable brutality committed by the Kaiser's soldiers, she finds no direct path from Windhoek, site of the infamous massacre of the Herero people, to Auschwitz. The author rejects the notion that a distinctive military culture or ethos determined how German forces acted overseas. Unlike rival powers France and Great Britain, Germany did not possess a professional colonial army. The forces it deployed in Africa and China were a motley mix of volunteers, sailors, mercenaries, and native recruits--all accorded different training and motivated by different factors. Germany's colonial troops embodied no esprit de corps that the Nazis could subsequently adopt. Belying its reputation for Teutonic efficiency, the German military's conduct of operations in Africa and China was improvisational and often haphazard. Local conditions--geography, climate, the size and capabilities of opposing native populations--determined the nature and extent of the violence German soldiers employed. A deliberate policy of genocide did not guide their actions.-- $c Provided by publisher 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-367) and index. 505 00 $a Part I. Three wars : the Boxer War -- The Herero and Nama war -- The Maji Maji war -- Part II. The colonial theater of war : the motivation of white and native colonial soldiers -- Training and weaponry -- Ideology and passage to war -- Environment and enemy -- Diseases and injuries -- Reaction from the foreign powers -- 505 80 $a Parliament and the military press -- Part III. 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