ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a German colonial discourse which was intended to reproduce a stereotypical labelling of Moroccans after the Great War and during the Second World War. German contact with Moroccans in Morocco and Europe is viewed against the background of historical facts which help place the aftermath of this colonial encounter within the context of an Orientalist discourse. During the First World War, the Germans considered Moroccans a minority that constituted a danger for European civilization; during the Second World War, German children feared the Goumiers; in both wars, Moroccans were seen as uncivilized, as murderers and as man-eaters. The chapter concludes that a counter-propagandist reaction which emanated from a covert colonial discourse, especially after the German failure in employing Moroccans against the Allies in both wars, resulted in a blatant Orientalist discourse which fed on a French manipulation of the German views of Moroccans.
