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Bührer, Tanja; Eichmann, Flavio; Förster, Stig; Stuchtey, Benedikt

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“…This cooperation across the racial divide was imperative for colonial administration in, among others India and Africa (Austen, 2017). Cooperation between indigenous groups and the colonial state was also commonplace in context of colonial violence and often indigenous troops—or a colonial army—were relied on for ‘dirty works’, inflicting violence against civilians (Bührer et al., 2017). Even in the some of the most extreme cases of colonial violence, such as King Leopold II ‘Red rubber’ regime in the Congo Free State, indigenous troops were key perpetrators of violent acts on behalf of the colonial administration.…”

Section: Contextualising Colonial Violence: Causality Continuity and The Holocaustmentioning

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Contextualising colonial violence: Causality, continuity and the Holocaust

Nielsen

2021

History Compass

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This article considers the problems that arises in linking colonialism and colonial violence to the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust. Links between colonialism and the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust, have again become popular with the increased focus on colonial violence. In German colonial history, a dominant tendency has been the ‘colonial sonderweg’ where continuities are drawn from colonial Africa to the Holocaust. Recently, British colonial violence too has been contextualised with the Holocaust, thus expanding the continuity thesis. Furthermore, Germany's confrontation with the Holocaust after 1945, some argue, serves as a model for how Britain should confront its past as a colonial power. This article argues that the invocation of the Holocaust as a benchmark for violence and a way to gauge colonial violence is generally unproductive and problematic. While intended to promote the historical significance of colonial violence, it does the opposite: it reduces it to a precursor and flattens the historical complexities that explained colonialism and colonial violence. Colonial violence, it is argued, is in itself significant and should therefore be separated from the Holocaust if we are to maintain its colonial context and historical specificity.

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Contextualising colonial violence: Causality, continuity and the Holocaust

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2021

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Johny Baleng (c. 1890–1964): A colonial broker from the Cameroon Grassfields

García

2021

Cultural Dynamics

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This article presents insights into the life story of Johny Baleng, a subchief from the Cameroon Grassfields. I argue that understanding him as a broker in a colonial context helps to identify local agency beyond the paradigm of coloniser-colonised. He needed to prove to his paramount chief that he was able to manage people and facilitate a high agricultural production rate, in order to achieve a more elevated social status in the local context. He travelled extensively and forged alliances with several chiefs of the region. At the same time, he worked with the German and French colonial administrations as a tax collector, worker recruiter and interpreter. These activities secured him an important position in his social environment and in the colonial structures.

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Contextualising colonial violence: Causality, continuity and the Holocaust

Contextualising colonial violence: Causality, continuity and the Holocaust

Johny Baleng (c. 1890–1964): A colonial broker from the Cameroon Grassfields

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