Colonial paradigms of violence : comparative analysis of the Holocaust genocide and mass killing In recent years scholars have rediscovered Hannah Arendts boomerang thesis – the coming home of European colonialism as genocide on European soil – as well as Raphael Lemkin`s work around his definition of genocide and the importance of its colonial dimensions. Germany and other European states are increasingly engaging in debates on comparing the Holocaust to other genocides and cases of mass killing memorialization decolonization and attempts to come to terms with the past ( Vergangenheitsbewältigung ). European Holocaust Studies (EHS) publishes key international research results on the murder of the European Jews and its wider contexts. In recent years scholars have rediscovered Hannah Arendts boomerang thesis the coming home of European colonialism as genocide on European soil as well as Raphael Lemkins work around his definition of genocide and the importance of its colonial dimensions. Germany and other European states are increasingly engaging in debates on comparing the Holocaust to other genocides and cases of mass killing memorialization decolonization and attempts to come to terms with the past ( Vergangenheitsbewältigung ). Research Articles Michelle Gordon and Rachel OSullivan: Introduction: Colonial Paradigms of Violence Dorota Glowacka: A Vanished World : Cultural Genocide of Eastern European Jews through the Lens of Settler Colonialism Jack Palmer: Genocide Occupation Extinction: A Conceptual Constellation in the Thought of Raphael Lemkin Sarah Ehlers: Disease Control and Human Experimentation: Networks Practices and Biographical Pathways from Colonial Medicine to Nazi Germany Ángel Alcalde: Colonial Warfare and Mass Murder in the Spanish Civil War: From the Rif to Badajoz Carroll P. Kakel III: One Should Take America as a Model : How Adolf Hitler Used American Westering as Model and Legitimation for the Nazi Lebensraum Empire Jadwiga Biskupska: Zamość Experiments: SS Settler Colonialism and Violence in Eastern Poland Aleksandra Szczepan: Terra Incognita Othering East Central Europe in Holocaust Studies Roundtable Discussion Edward Kissi Tom Lawson Ulrike Lindner and Mirjam Zadoff: A European Vergangenheitsbewältigung New Entanglements of Holocaust and Colonial Histories Source Commentary Elizabeth Harvey: Hard Work was Part of the Act : Charlotte Kahanes Memoir In the Safety of the Third Reich Project Descriptions Manuela Bauche Danna Marshall Volker Strähle and Kerstin Stubenvoll: Geschichte der Ihnestraße 22: Remembering the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology Human Heredity and Eugenics Robin Buller: Ottoman Jews in Paris: Immigrant Belonging in Interwar and Occupied France 1918 1945 Tom Menger: The Colonial Way of War: Extreme Violence in Knowledge and Practice of Colonial Warfare in the British German and Dutch Colonial Empires c. 1890 1914 Roni Mikel Arieli: Jewish Deportees in Mauritius (1940 1945): A History from the Margins Liane Schäfer: Intersections of Racism and Antisemitism in Postcolonial and Post National Socialist Germany About the Authors.