The period from 1906 to 1953 was considered to the Age of Extremes as a lot of important events took place during this time. The Nazis started using the camps first on the Herero tribes when they captured Southwest Africa. They drew this concept from the British as they had been doing this with many other countries. The Herero were an ethnic tribe that inhabited in parts of southern Africa and soon was taken over by the Germans. Around 1904, the Germans killed about 80,000 Herero’s to take over their land and to get rid of them. The Herero and Nama genocide was one of the many colonial genocides that radicalized the scale and scope, along with the methods and practices of the Germans. The primary motive was to set up a settlers colony for the
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After German promises of pardon, the Herero were misled back under German control and forced into slave labor and concentration camps. Forced to work until death by exhaustion and starvation, the Herero and Nama population was monumentally devastated. The General used radicalization which was a Utopian idea that now became a reality. Earlier Germany had no excuse to remove the Black people out of the area, but with revolt, they had the perfect reason to colonize the space into a German colony. Thus, in turn, Southwest Africa became a planting ground of German culture. This leading to a race war. Soon the general got the Annihilation order where the entire Herero population was to be eradicated. As for the Germans, the Herero were no longer german prospects or subjects. Thus Germany had no obligation to protect them, and the only option was to get rid of them. By now they have the cause and means. The entire Herero population was moved to concentration camps, these camps were not death camps, but most people die of malnutrition as they had to work round the clock. These concentration camps had a mortality rate of 70%, making it a death camp nonetheless. The camps ran like a bureaucratic system where everyone had identification cards, and they were referred …show more content…
The German war in Poland was one of the most massive colonial war in history as never were so many people and resources mobilized by the German. Thus resulting in a colonial war space where millions of people were to be murdered to conquer living space and to establish a colonial empire that would reach far beyond. Places like Poland soon became a breeding ground for colonial space, thus resulting in a holocaust of about 15-30 million in Belarus and Poland. Almost ⅔ rd of the population was wiped out, and out of them, 3 million were prisoners of war. During the period of war, killing the prisoner of war was a criminal offense, but yet the Germans murdered them. It was considered as a war on Annihilation where mobile death squads were used; these specially trained units followed invading troops to capture and eliminate Jews, communists, and other Soviet officials. This was done under the Commissar Order, where all those prisoners who could be identified as active representatives or of any resistance should be killed. Eastern Europe soon seems to be called Garden of Eden, where mass killings took place. Here people like Jews, Soviets, Czeks were killer and their land was taken over by Germans to make space for German people to live. It was like a racial reconstruction of Europe. About 25-30 people were killed to fulfill their ideological concept. Even with this much happening, nobody was ready to
After German promises of pardon, the Herero were misled back under German control and forced into slave labor and concentration camps. Forced to work until death by exhaustion and starvation, the Herero and Nama population was monumentally devastated. The General used radicalization which was a Utopian idea that now became a reality. Earlier Germany had no excuse to remove the Black people out of the area, but with revolt, they had the perfect reason to colonize the space into a German colony. Thus, in turn, Southwest Africa became a planting ground of German culture. This leading to a race war. Soon the general got the Annihilation order where the entire Herero population was to be eradicated. As for the Germans, the Herero were no longer german prospects or subjects. Thus Germany had no obligation to protect them, and the only option was to get rid of them. By now they have the cause and means. The entire Herero population was moved to concentration camps, these camps were not death camps, but most people die of malnutrition as they had to work round the clock. These concentration camps had a mortality rate of 70%, making it a death camp nonetheless. The camps ran like a bureaucratic system where everyone had identification cards, and they were referred …show more content…
The German war in Poland was one of the most massive colonial war in history as never were so many people and resources mobilized by the German. Thus resulting in a colonial war space where millions of people were to be murdered to conquer living space and to establish a colonial empire that would reach far beyond. Places like Poland soon became a breeding ground for colonial space, thus resulting in a holocaust of about 15-30 million in Belarus and Poland. Almost ⅔ rd of the population was wiped out, and out of them, 3 million were prisoners of war. During the period of war, killing the prisoner of war was a criminal offense, but yet the Germans murdered them. It was considered as a war on Annihilation where mobile death squads were used; these specially trained units followed invading troops to capture and eliminate Jews, communists, and other Soviet officials. This was done under the Commissar Order, where all those prisoners who could be identified as active representatives or of any resistance should be killed. Eastern Europe soon seems to be called Garden of Eden, where mass killings took place. Here people like Jews, Soviets, Czeks were killer and their land was taken over by Germans to make space for German people to live. It was like a racial reconstruction of Europe. About 25-30 people were killed to fulfill their ideological concept. Even with this much happening, nobody was ready to