Continental Eastern empire mattered more than overseas colonies to German identity

Evidence

As David Blackbourn argued recently, Mitteleuropa, or alternatively Osteuropa, was as important to Germans as India was to Great Britain and Algeria to France. Compared to the desire to colonize the ‘East’, Imperial Germany’s short-lived ‘blue water’ empire paled in significance. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 176

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the reader’s France-Algeria framing throughout this volume and the broader comparative settler-colonial literature. — connects to: Continental and overseas imperialism achieved opposite successes and failures — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 632

Broader Connections

• Continental and overseas imperialism achieved opposite successes and failures #qualifies (0.85) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 632