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In the Conclusion, I sum-up the impact of pre-Nazi discourse (imperial-colonial ideological underpinnings) and pre-Nazi praxis (earlier imperial-colonial projects) on Nazi discourse (the Nazi imperial-colonial imagination) and Nazi praxis (the genocidal violence unleashed by the Nazis between 1939 and 1945). I also reassert my book’s main idea (the Holocaust is best understood as ‘colonial genocide’) and its main argument (Western-style colonialism/racial imperialism was the Holocaust’s single most important enabler/cause).
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Geoff Eley, ‘Empire by Land or Sea?: Germany’s Imperial Imaginary, 1840–1945’, in Geoff Eley and Bradley D. Naranch (eds), German Colonialism in a Global Age, 1884–1945 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, forthcoming 2014), pp. 1–26.
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Kakel, C.P. (2013). Conclusion: Accounting for the Holocaust. In: The Holocaust as Colonial Genocide: Hitler’s ‘Indian Wars’ in the ‘Wild East’. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-39169-8_6
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