Willeke Sandler is Assistant Professor of History at Loyola University Maryland.

"In crisp prose, Willeke Sandler's book offers a vivid, compelling and deeply researched picture of the afterlives of empire under the dictatorship of the NSDAP (the National Socialist German Workers' Party). Moving from the Weimar-era rejection of what was seen as the 'colonial guilt lie' of Versailles, through the Gleichschaltung of pro-colonial organisations under the Nazis, and ending with the dissolution of the Nazified colonial organisations during the Second World War, Sandler clearly demonstrates the extent to which pro-colonial Germans sought to accommodate themselves to a new Nazi regime that was at best ambivalent about their colonial irredentism....Clearly emerging in Sandler's work is the deep symbiosis between the colonial movement and the Nazi Party." -- English Historical Review

"A rich and exceptionally well-written history of post-1919 German procolonial, irredentist organizations and the propaganda they produced.... The book deepens our understanding both of European colonial culture and of the ways in which the Nazi regime functioned" -- Matthew G. Stanard, German Studies Review

"Sandler intervenes in and complicates the traditional narrative of the demise of those groups and individuals that promoted overseas expansionism and lobbied for the return of Germany's colonies under the Nazi regime....Sandler's book is an important contribution to the vast body of scholarship on Nazi Germany, as it sheds light on the complexities of public support for the Nazi regime and the various and changing opportunities of loyal, single-issue dissent offered by it." -- Jens-Uwe Guettel, German History