Nazi empire differed from colonial empires by destroying difference rather than managing it

Evidence

In this sense, the wartime Nazi empire was, indeed, a very different type of empire, not interested in managing cultural or ethnic difference but in destroying it. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 50

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to scholarship contrasting settler-colonialism with genocidal imperial rule; relevant to the reader’s interest in manufactured enemies sustaining solidarity. — connects to: Colonizing states manufactured internal homogeneity while colonial states managed difference — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1721; German imperial thinking long rejected multi-ethnicity and pursued ethnic homogeneity — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 66; The Holocaust extended colonial logic to Jews as a colonizable species (+1 more)

Broader Connections