In the Throes of Defeat: Germany and the “Colonial Guilt Lie”

In the Throes of Defeat: Germany and the “Colonial Guilt Lie” ● How do Germans view the end of WWI from a defeated standpoint on the European continent as well as in the colonial sphere? ● “ So weit die deutsche sunge klingt!” ○ Tying the colonial sphere as an important aspect of German nationalism/colonial state ○ German Colonization officially in 1884 when it became a “German Protectorate”, German East Africa colonized in 1885 ● Principle of Effectivity -- how a colonial stake is claimed in a country ● German Naval Capacity 1914-1918 ● Colonial “Knowledge” -- Einzug in Tumbutu ○ Colonialism as a product in a variety of ways, commodification of colonialism ● “Deutsche Kolonial Ausstellung” ● German Naval Intelligence Service -● Germany’s Colonies Games -- how games past/present separate WWII from the combat zones and the Holocaust. ● Perceptions of Colonial Violence -- one of necessity and defense ● Peter Moors Fahart Nach Südwest - fictional account of the Herero-Nama Genocide ○ “Civilization is under threat” there; Return to a pre-civlized zone, ● Hottentot Elections 1907 ○ Unpopular genocide in Namibia in Germany ○ Discussions regarding the cost of colonial rule ○ Pro-colonialists launched a campaign (for center right parties, Kiaseraich parties) a vote not for us is a vote for black Africans, weakining of Germany in the colonial sphere ○ Hottentot Block -- Pro-African and not pro-German ○ Bülow Block -- Colonial Politik, Bettnam Holvag replaces as PM ● The British Blue Book -- 1919 ○ Accurately documents and details German colonial rule in Namabia and allude to German tendings, and do this as the justification to strip Germany of all of its overseas colonies, propoells Germans to mark this as propaganda post WWI ● Revenants of the German Empire: ○ According to Wempe, how did the Mandate System emerge as an answer for Germany’s “colonial question” after WWI? ○ Who are colonial Germans and why did they respond so viscerally to the Mandate System? ○ What does Wempe identify as the most effective means colonial germans adopted to combat the narrative that they were “brutal/bad colonists”? ○ Who were Theodor Seitz and Heinrchi Schnee? Why did they become vocal leaders of the so-called “Moral Colonialism” effort post WWI? ○ Why did others praise violence as an acceptable form of colonial occupation? ○ How did Colonial Germans seize the moment “Wilsonian Moment” and rebrand themselves as the ideal European colonizers? ○ What is perhaps paradoxical about Colonial Germans’s international approach to colonial reclamation in the 1920s? German Women for Empire ● According to Wildenthal, how did the sudden reality of German postcolonialism refashion the ways in which women and men viewed their former overseas empire? ● Why were white German women so well sutied to agitate in favor of German colonial rule in the 1920s and 1930s? ● What were awesome of the most influential ways that white German women advocated the necessity of empire (specifically among other women) in Weimar? ● How did racism become a central aspect of these same media/propaganda campaigns? ● Did the Nazis afford or decrease white women’s colonial activism during the same period? Rhineland Controversy ● Van Hoesen seeks to “study the Rhineland controversy as a historial event” How does he go about that effort in this chapter? More specifically, what foil does he used to evaluate this history? ● What did the French purportedly seek to accomplish in the Rhineland? What was the German’s fear?