Introduction: Reconfiguring German colonialism / Volker Langbehn and Mohammad Salama pt. 1. Colonial (dis)continuities : framing the issue ; Borrowed light : Nietzsche and the colonies / Timothy Brennan German colonialism : some reflections on reassessments, specificities, and constellations / Birthe Kundrus pt. 2. Lebensraum and genocide ; Against "human diversity as such" : Lebensraum and genocide in the Third Reich / Shelley Baranowski Hannah Arendt, imperialisms, and the Holocaust / A. Dirk Moses Caesura, continuity, and myth : the stakes of tethering the Holocaust to German colonial theory / Kitty Millet pt. 3. Looking East : Poland, the Ottoman Empire, and politicized Jihadism ; Germany's adventures in the Orient : a history of ambivalent semicolonial entanglements / Malte Fuhrmann Arguing the case for a colonial Poland / Kristin Kopp Colonialism, and no end : the other continuity theses / Russell A. Berman pt. 4. Of missionaries, economics, and intranational self-perception ; The purpose of German colonialism, or, The long shadow of Bismarck's colonial policy / Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann Christian missionary societies in the German colonies, 1884/85-1914/15 / Ulrich van der Heyden German colonialism and the British neighbor in Africa before 1914 : self-definitions, lines of demarcation, and cooperation / Ulrike Lindner pt. 5. Postcolonial German politics ; "Kalashnikovs, not Coca-Cola, bring self-determination to Angola" : the two Germanys, Lusophone Africa, and the rhetoric of colonial difference / Luís Madureira Germany, Palestine, Israel, and the (post)colonial imagination / Martin Braach-Maksvytis. | 
