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Germany and the Union of South Africa in the Nazi Period (Hardcover, New)
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Germany and the Union of South Africa in the Nazi Period (Hardcover, New)
Series: Contributions to the Study of World History
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This is the first study to examine Nazi German foreign policy
towards the Union of South Africa from 1933-1939. Making extensive
use of unpublished primary source German documents, Robert Citino
focuses on the activities of the German embassy and consulates
within South Africa in order to answer four basic questions: What
role did race and racial theory play in German foreign policy
towards South Africa? Did Germany attempt to exploit South African
yearnings for international respect, and, if so, how? Did the
Germans seek to take advantage of deep divisions within South
African society between British and Afrikaners? Finally, to what
extent was the German Foreign Office Nazified in the 1930s? By
concentrating on the policies and views of German diplomatic
personnel within a single country--rather than on Hitler's
grandiose proclamations and speeches on world affairs--Citino
offers a closer look at Nazi German foreign policy operations than
is usually available. The study is organized chronologically and
begins with an overview of German-South African relations before
1933. Subsequent chapters address early tensions and South African
domestic developments in the years leading up to the outbreak of
war. Specific topics covered include the role played by the former
German colony of Southwest Africa in relations between the two
states, the hostile attitude of much of the South African press
towards Nazi Germany, the boycott of German firms by the South
African Jewish community, the Smuts-Hertzog fusion, the rise of
Malan and his Purified nationalist party, the growth of
anti-Semitism in South Africa and the concurrent growth in
Afrikaner national consciousness, and South African attitudes
towards the major European crises of the 1930s. Citino concludes by
analyzing Germany's inability to keep South Africa neutral in 1939
and the entry of the Union into the war at England's side. Students
of modern German, South African, and twentieth century diplomatic
history will find Citino's work an enlightening contribution to the
literature of Nazi Germany's foreign relations.
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