Germany’s ethnocultural homogeneity obsession made its empire exceptional.

Evidence

The two cases reveal different conceptions of expansion and imperial rule that were pushed to their extremes at the very moment they ended in 1945 and 1962 respectively. Baranowski stresses the long-term rejection of multi-ethnicity in modern Germany, characterizing the German empire as being obsessed with ethnocultural homogeneity. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 66

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Early German race-thinking was so entangled with nationalism that the two become nearly indistinguishable. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 444; German abstract theorizing tracked the peculiar politics of German unification.; German racial-biological nationalism emerged as a substitute for failed political nationhood — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 446 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• German race-thinking arose as a substitute for missing political nationhood #expands (0.90)
• Early German race-thinking was so entangled with nationalism that the two become nearly indistinguishable. #corroborates (0.85) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 444
• German racial-biological nationalism emerged as a substitute for failed political nationhood #expands (0.85) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 446
• German abstract theorizing tracked the peculiar politics of German unification. #expands (0.78)