Racist Regimes, Forced Labour and Death

Colin Clarke is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Oxford University, UK and an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College; from 1998 to 2001 he was Head of Oxford University’s School of Geography and the Environment.

“Racist Regimes, Forced Labor and Death is an important work that breaks new ground in the comparative study of the history of slavery and the Holocaust. With a structured approach and in-depth research, Colin Clarke presents a fresh, albeit sometimes intellectually challenging, perspective. This book is highly recommended for those interested in the history of slavery, the Holocaust, and racial dynamics in colonial and totalitarian regimes.” (Muhammad Hendi Hidayat Romadhoni, Jecelyn Amanda Dethan and Agnes Levina Sesa, Journal of Human Trafficking, November 13, 2024)

• Chapter 1: A Question of Comparison: British Caribbean Slavery and the Holocaust in Germany and Occupied Europe.- Chapter 2: Establishment of the Colonial Empire: Slave-Sugar Plantations, White Exploitation and Slave Suppression.- Chapter 3: Urban Ambiguity: Slave or Free?.- Chapter 4: Social Structure of Slave Society and the Impact of the Abolition of the Slave Trade and Slave Emancipation.- Chapter 5: Germany’s Persecution of the Jews, Evisceration of Poland and Exploitation of the Ghettos.- Chapter 6 German Ethnic Cleansing, Spatial Planning and Colonizing the USSR (1941-44).- Chapter 7: Jewish and Ethnic Victims of Forced Labour in Germany and the Occupied Territories (1939-45).- Chapter 8: Death Camps in the General Government (1942-43) and High-Technology Labouring-to-Death Camps in Germany (1943-45).- Chapter 9: Slavery in the British Caribbean and the Holocaust in Germany and Occupied Europe: a Comparison.