Black intellectuals saw colonial practice as the Holocaust’s prefiguration

Evidence

That is incorrect. Several leading Black intellectuals saw the parallels with great clarity at the time. W. E. B. Du Bois, in The World and Africa, published soon after the end of the Second World War, wrote, “There was no Nazi atrocity—concentration camps, wholesale maiming and murder, defilement of women or ghastly blasphemy of childhood—which Christian civilization of Europe had not long been practicing against colored folk in all parts of the world in the name of and for the defense of a Superior Race born to rule the world.” What was new: it was now fellow Europeans who were being cast as the inferior race. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 887

Categorization

• XREF: Du Bois and Césaire anticipating what later scholarship (Arendt, Lindqvist) and the ‘colonialism-continuity thesis’ formalized; connects to the reader’s other reading on how ‘civilization’ narratives paper over violence.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: the timeline between Lindqvist’s 1990s articulation and the earlier Black-intellectual formulation — why did the latter get suppressed from mainstream Holocaust historiography for so long?