Askari at Hitler’s Frontier:Racial-Cultural Chauvinism and Colonial
Systems in Germany and the Territories of the Eastern Front, 1941-1945
Abstract
This is a paper written for the University of Toronto and adheres to
it’s standards. It was written and formatted in Chicago 17th style and
uses written and digital scholarly and published sources. One source is
the author’s own translation of a German text. Otherwise, widely
accepted English translations are used (i.e. original English
translation of “Mein Kampf”). This paper covers the interrelationship
between German colonial thought and German / non-German relationships on
the Eastern Front during the Second World War, particularly relations
with collaborationist states and Slavic volunteers to the Waffen SS.