Encountering Genocide: Personal Accounts from Victims, Perpetrators, and WitnessesCutting-edge in its scope and approach, this unique volume offers first-person accounts of modern genocides to enable readers to more fully examine genocidal experiences and better understand the horror of such events. From the atrocities of the Holocaust to the ongoing horrors in Darfur, genocide has been a gruesome and all-too-prominent fixture of modern history. There is no better way to examine and understand these events than through the accounts of those involved. This unique collection of primary sources features 50 documents, some of which have never before been made public. These firsthand accounts—diary entries, memoirs, oral testimony, original interviews, and more—illuminate 10 genocides of the 20th and 21st centuries as they were experienced by victims, perpetrators, and bystanders. The book begins with the Herero Genocide (1904–1907) and ends with a consideration of the atrocities in Darfur. Each of the 50 documents features a brief introduction that provides basic and essential information such as who created it as well as when, where, and why. The work concludes with an analysis comprised of scholarly commentary, additional contextual information, and a list of questions that will serve as a springboard for student discussion of history and of the nature of survival in the face of evil.
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Continuous tribal conflict, which threatened the safety and economic potential of the German colony, led Germany to send Schutztruppe (“Protection Troops”) to pacify the area. Increasingly, however, the Germans exploited the native ...
Ultimately, owing to the inhospitable climate and terrain, it was deemed impossible to keep the troops and horses in peak condition. The German military presence during the war comprised 11,000 soldiers of all ranks.
I, the great general of the German troops, send this letter to the Herero People. Hereros are no longer German subjects. They have murdered, stolen, they have cut off the noses, ears, and other bodily parts of wounded soldiers and now, ...
The receiving of women and children is a definite danger for our troops, to take care of them is an impossibility. . . . This uprising is and remains the beginning of a racial war.
In March 1905 I was sent from Karibib and accompanied the troops of Hauptmann Kuhne to the Waterberg. I then saw that the Germans no longer took any prisoners. They killed all men, women and children whom they came across.
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3 THE HOLOCAUST | 67 |
4 THE CAMBODIAN GENOCIDE | 119 |
5 THE GUATEMALAN GENOCIDE | 149 |
6 THE EAST TIMOR GENOCIDE | 169 |
7 THE KURDISTAN GENOCIDE | 189 |
8 THE RWANDAN GENOCIDE | 199 |
9 THE BOSNIAN GENOCIDE | 241 |
10 THE DARFUR GENOCIDE | 281 |
Bibliography | 291 |
Index | 297 |
About the Author | 305 |
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Encountering Genocide: Personal Accounts from Victims, Perpetrators, and ... Paul R. Bartrop Pregled nije dostupan - 2014 |