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Based on an exploration of both pre-Nazi and Nazi theory and practice, Pete Kakel challenges the dominant narrative of the murder of European Jewry, illuminating the Holocaust´s decidedly imperial-colonial origins, context, and content in a book of interest to students, teachers, and lay readers, as well as specialist and non-specialist scholars.

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Introduction: Explaining the Holocaust 1. Pre-Nazi Discourse: Racial Imperialism 2. Pre-Nazi Praxis: Imperial-Colonial Models 3. Nazi Discourse: Colonial Fantasies of ´Space´ and ´Race´ 4. Nazi Praxis: Colonial War and Genocide Conclusion: Accounting for the Holocaust

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Carroll P. Kakel, III (´Pete´) is a research historian and lecturer at The Johns Hopkins University Centre for Liberal Arts, USA. He is the author of The American West and the Nazi East: A Comparative and Interpretive Perspective.

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