Sömürgecilik, Alman Deneyimi ve Güney Afrika Örneği Üzerinden Diğer Sömürgecilik Deneyimleri ile Karşılaştırılması

Yekta Noyan

doi:10.54842/ustich.1439106

Research Article

COLONIALISM, GERMAN EXPERIENCE AND REFLECTIONS ON HISTORY-SOUTH AFRICA AS A CASE STUDY

Year 2024, Issue: 25, 107 - 170, 23.09.2024

Yekta Noyan

https://doi.org/10.54842/ustich.1439106

Abstract

Despite its severe brutality, colonialism does not necessarily lead to genocide. The economic rationality behind colonialism prevents it from annihilating the indigenous sources of labour. For instance, despite the magnitude and the applicability of Italian brutality and nationalist manipulation in Libya, the overarching economic strains/rationale might have prevented an extreme mode of annihilation similar to the German colonial project in South West Africa.
It is plausible that the Wilhelmine period contained precursors of Nazism, and, subsequently, Nazis built upon these foundations and advanced their agenda by choosing a particular project among many other competing ones.

Thus, this study investigates German colonialism, its roots, its course of action and the pertinent repercussions. After examining the nature of colonialism in general, it then raises questions on the origins and development of the German colonial legacy in particular. The paper adopts a comparative approach. Its first case study will be the German presence in South West Africa. The second case study will be the Italian presence in North Africa and British experience in South Africa. The third and final case study will be the British experience in South Africa. The cruelties of the Second Anglo Boer War (South African War provide adequate comparative.

Keywords

Colonialism, Genocide, Holokost, The German Empire, The British Empire, Namibia, South Africa

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