Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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First published: May 1, 2026 - Last updated: May 1, 2026

TITLE INFORMATION

Speaker: Claudia Siebrecht

Title: The Testimony of Maria III

Subtitle: Sexual Violence and the Archival Grain, German South West Africa, 1906

Conference: Gender and Violence in Colonial Wars, Colonial Rule and Anti-colonial Liberation Struggles (Organized by Tanja Bührer, Isabelle Deflers and Karen Hagemann)

Session: Panel VI: Recollecting and Presenting Colonial Rule and Anticolonial Resistance (Moderation: Anke Fischer-Kattner)

Place: Potsdam, Germany

Date: January 31, 2025

Language: English

Keywords: Modern History: 20th Century, African History: Namibian History; European History: German History | Types: Genocidal Rape / Herero and Namaqua Genocide



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Speaker: Claudia Siebrecht, School of Media, Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex - ORCID

Abstract: »This paper is framed around an extraordinary trial for rape and assault in a concentration camp in German South-West Africa. Based on testimonies, it foregrounds experiences of subjugation in the doubly oppressive context of colonialism and concentration camp imprisonment during the Herero Nama War between 1904-1908. Tracing voices of the imprisoned, this research probes the nature, use and politics of the German colonial archive, offers new perspectives on the personhood of the imprisoned and reappraises agency within the gendered and racial violence systemic in colonial rule.« (Source: International Research Network “Military, War and Gender/Diversity / Militär, Krieg und Geschlecht/Diversität”)

Wikipedia: History of Africa: History of Namibia / German South West Africa | History of Europe: History of Germany / German Empire | Genocide: Herero and Nama genocide | Sex and the law: Rape / Genocidal rape