Die Geschichte Der Menschheit

Königstein Im Taunus / Leipzig: Karl Robert Langewiesche,, 1922. 5th or later Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 247 Pp. Card Wrappers Embossed And Printed In Black. Later Printing, 105 Bis 124 Tausend. Light Wear. Inscription In Los Angeles Dated April 1923. With A Postcard Handwritten And Hand Addressed By Paul Rohrbach To An Ernst Leiler In Los Angeles In 1923. Paul Rohrbach (1869 -1956) Was Born In The Courland Governate (Then Part Of The Russian Empire). Between 1887 And 1896 He Attended The Universities Of Dorpat, Berlin, And Strasbourg. Rohrbach Traveled Extensively In Asia (Especially China) And Africa, And In 1903-06 He Was Settlement Commissioner To Southwest Africa. After Returning To Berlin, He Became A Lecturer Of Colonial Economy At The Handelshochschule Berlin. His Writings Include Many Books On Political Conditions In The Countries Visited By Him, With Much Attention To The Effects Of German Colonization And Interests. Rohrbach Was An Unapologetic Racist And A Vocal Supporter Of German Colonial Expansion. He Unequivocally Asserted That Black Societies In Africa Were Racially Incapable Of Creating Advanced Cultures And Sophisticated Political Structures. From This Premise He Concluded That Germans Were Justified In Seizing And Developing 'Underused' Land And Labor In Africa. In Practice, He Endorsed Brutal Systems Of Compulsory Labor For Native Africans In Germany's Colonies. He Also Encouraged Colonial Governments To Expropriate Indigenous Lands For Distribution To White Settlers. Rohrbach Considered The African Labor Extremely Valuable To Colonial Economies, And Wanted To Preserve Indigenous Populations. However, He Recommended That Settlers And Colonial States Freely Employ Violence To Suppress And Deter Native Resistance. He Also Sanctioned Eradicating Rebellious African Tribes. Rohrbach Wrote More Broadly On German Foreign Policy, Particularly During The First World War. He Became An Influential Public Voice In Germany's Debate Over War Aims, And Contributed Directly To Discussions Over Objectives Within The German Government. Rohrbach Strongly Favored Projecting German Power Into Eastern Europe At The Expense Of The Russian Empire. However, He Did Not Believe That Colonial Structures Would Be Appropriate For Governing The Spaces And Populations Of Eastern Europe. Rohrbach Proposed That The German Empire Directly Annex The Russian Governorates Along The Baltic Coast (Kovno, Vilna, Courland, Livonia, And Estonia), And Recommended Using Education And Settlement Policy To Gradually Germanize Their Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, And White Ruthenian Populations. He Also Strongly Supported Establishing German Control Over Congress Poland, But Believed That The Political And Cultural Sophistication Of The Polish Nation Effectively Prohibited Annexation And Germanization. He Instead Supported The Creation Of An Autonomous Polish State, Which Would Govern Its Own Domestic Affairs, But Accept The German Empire's Direction Of A Common Foreign Policy And Military Affairs. The German Empire Pursued This Imperial Policy In 1916 When It Established The Kingdom Of Poland. According To Antranig Chalabian, Paul Rohrbach And Artashes Abeghian Published A Book In 1934 Called 'Armenian-Aryan' In Collaboration With Nazi Intellectuals Which "Strove To Prove That Armenians Belong To The Aryan Race And The Armenian Language To The Indo-European Family Of Languages." [Rohrbach's Activities In The United States Would Have Been Protected As Were The Activities Of All Avowed Anti-Communists, Whatever Their Other Beliefs, Or Their Contributions To The Nazi Takeover In Germany In The 1920'S And 1930'S. ]