Willeke Sandler
Biographic Data
| ID | 3767261 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Willeke Sandler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Willeke |
| FAMILY NAME | Sandler |
| SIGNATURE | SANDLER W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Maryland |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-9013-097X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 168 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘The War was a Great Link’
When Germans began to return to the British Mandate of Tanganyika (formerly German East Africa) in the mid-1920s, they had to navigate their new position in the territory, in particular vis-à-vis their British neighbours and British authorities. The history of German colonialism in the region and, more immediately, the local history of a war fought between the British and the Germans could have proven an obstacle to smooth relations between the t…
A Foot in the Door
After 1925, German settlers began to return to the former German East Africa, lost through the Treaty of Versailles and transformed into the British Mandate of Tanganyika. The German Foreign Office's Colonial Section took on a proactive role to facilitate these Germans’ settlement in their former colony, including working with German ministries to release funding and navigating the British administration and settlers on the ground in Tanganyika. …
After the Imperialist Imagination
In 1998, Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox and Susanne Zantop published The Imperialist Imagination: German Colonialism and Its Legacy (University of Michigan Press). Through this edited volume, they and their contributors explored the colonial mentalities that existed in Germany before, during and after the period of formal imperialism, as well as their impact on notions of Germanness. The Imperialist Imagination, together with Zantop’s Colonial…
Kolonial bewegte Jugend
Caring for Africans Here and There
This chapter turns to the content of colonialist discourse and explores colonialists’ responses to Nazi racial laws (and to British reactions to these laws) as they integrated Nazi racism into their narrative of peaceful German-African relations. Colonialists’ image of Germans as benevolent colonizers served as the cornerstone of their imagined colonial past, but had to be situated within the Nazi worldview that condemned “racial inferiors” to pe…
Seeing the Colonies
This chapter examines colonialists’ use of visual culture to develop metropolitan Germans’ identification with the distant colonial territories. Colonialists mobilized a variety of visual forms, including posters and photography, to reach Germans who had seemed unresponsive to their written and oral propaganda. These images, which colonialists believed had a unique power to transcend viewers’ critical distance, would provide an “experience” of th…
Africa or the East?
During the Second World War, the Nazi pursuit of race war and empire in Eastern Europe put colonialists under greater pressure to justify their African focus. While Africa remained a future possibility, Eastern Europe offered readily accessible territory for the fulfillment of colonial ambitions. In the euphoric early years of the war, colonialists presented the outbreak of war as finally providing the opportunity to fulfill their irredentist dem…
Empire in the Heimat
With the end of the First World War, Germany became a “postcolonial” power. The Treaty of Versailles in 1919 transformed Germany’s overseas colonies in Africa and the Pacific into League of Nations Mandates, administered by other powers. Yet a number of Germans rejected this “postcolonial” status, arguing instead that Germany was simply an interrupted colonial power and would soon reclaim these territories. With the Nazi seizure of power in 1933,…
The Persistence of Race
In The Persistence of Race: Continuity and Change in Germany from the Wilhelmine Empire to National Socialism, Lara Day and Oliver Haag have brought together a wide range of analyses of German cultural narratives of race that stretch across (and often bridge the divide between) Wilhelmine Germany, the Weimar Republic, and the Third Reich. In their introduction to the volume, Day and Haag provide a detailed (and often critical) historiography of t…
Colonial Education in the Third Reich
In 1926, the Women's League of the German Colonial Society opened the Rendsburg Colonial School for Women to train young women to go abroad to the former German colonies. This school joined the Witzenhausen Colonial School (for men), founded in 1899, as institutions of colonial education in a Germany now without an overseas empire. After 1933, the schools entered a new phase of their histories. This article examines the Rendsburg and Witzenhausen…
Weimar Colonialism
Journal Article Weimar Colonialism: Discourses and Legacies of Post-Imperialism in Germany after 1918 Get access Weimar Colonialism: Discourses and Legacies of Post-Imperialism in Germany after 1918. Edited by Florian Krobb and Elaine Martin. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag. 2014. 255 pp. €34.80 (paperback). Willeke Sandler Willeke Sandler 1Harvard University *[email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
Africa or the East?
During the Second World War, the Nazi pursuit of race war and empire in Eastern Europe put colonialists under greater pressure to justify their African focus. While Africa remained a future possibility, Eastern Europe offered readily accessible territory for the fulfillment of colonial ambitions. In the euphoric early years of the war, colonialists presented the outbreak of war as finally providing the opportunity to fulfill their irredentist dem…
Colonial Education in the Third Reich
In 1926, the Women's League of the German Colonial Society opened the Rendsburg Colonial School for Women to train young women to go abroad to the former German colonies. This school joined the Witzenhausen Colonial School (for men), founded in 1899, as institutions of colonial education in a Germany now without an overseas empire. After 1933, the schools entered a new phase of their histories. This article examines the Rendsburg and Witzenhausen…
A Foot in the Door
After 1925, German settlers began to return to the former German East Africa, lost through the Treaty of Versailles and transformed into the British Mandate of Tanganyika. The German Foreign Office's Colonial Section took on a proactive role to facilitate these Germans’ settlement in their former colony, including working with German ministries to release funding and navigating the British administration and settlers on the ground in Tanganyika. …
Weimar Colonialism
Journal Article Weimar Colonialism: Discourses and Legacies of Post-Imperialism in Germany after 1918 Get access Weimar Colonialism: Discourses and Legacies of Post-Imperialism in Germany after 1918. Edited by Florian Krobb and Elaine Martin. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag. 2014. 255 pp. €34.80 (paperback). Willeke Sandler Willeke Sandler 1Harvard University *[email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
Colonial Education in the Third Reich
In 1926, the Women's League of the German Colonial Society opened the Rendsburg Colonial School for Women to train young women to go abroad to the former German colonies. This school joined the Witzenhausen Colonial School (for men), founded in 1899, as institutions of colonial education in a Germany now without an overseas empire. After 1933, the schools entered a new phase of their histories. This article examines the Rendsburg and Witzenhausen…
Caring for Africans Here and There
This chapter turns to the content of colonialist discourse and explores colonialists’ responses to Nazi racial laws (and to British reactions to these laws) as they integrated Nazi racism into their narrative of peaceful German-African relations. Colonialists’ image of Germans as benevolent colonizers served as the cornerstone of their imagined colonial past, but had to be situated within the Nazi worldview that condemned “racial inferiors” to pe…
Seeing the Colonies
This chapter examines colonialists’ use of visual culture to develop metropolitan Germans’ identification with the distant colonial territories. Colonialists mobilized a variety of visual forms, including posters and photography, to reach Germans who had seemed unresponsive to their written and oral propaganda. These images, which colonialists believed had a unique power to transcend viewers’ critical distance, would provide an “experience” of th…
Africa or the East?
During the Second World War, the Nazi pursuit of race war and empire in Eastern Europe put colonialists under greater pressure to justify their African focus. While Africa remained a future possibility, Eastern Europe offered readily accessible territory for the fulfillment of colonial ambitions. In the euphoric early years of the war, colonialists presented the outbreak of war as finally providing the opportunity to fulfill their irredentist dem…
Empire in the Heimat
With the end of the First World War, Germany became a “postcolonial” power. The Treaty of Versailles in 1919 transformed Germany’s overseas colonies in Africa and the Pacific into League of Nations Mandates, administered by other powers. Yet a number of Germans rejected this “postcolonial” status, arguing instead that Germany was simply an interrupted colonial power and would soon reclaim these territories. With the Nazi seizure of power in 1933,…
The Persistence of Race
In The Persistence of Race: Continuity and Change in Germany from the Wilhelmine Empire to National Socialism, Lara Day and Oliver Haag have brought together a wide range of analyses of German cultural narratives of race that stretch across (and often bridge the divide between) Wilhelmine Germany, the Weimar Republic, and the Third Reich. In their introduction to the volume, Day and Haag provide a detailed (and often critical) historiography of t…
Kolonial bewegte Jugend
After the Imperialist Imagination
In 1998, Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox and Susanne Zantop published The Imperialist Imagination: German Colonialism and Its Legacy (University of Michigan Press). Through this edited volume, they and their contributors explored the colonial mentalities that existed in Germany before, during and after the period of formal imperialism, as well as their impact on notions of Germanness. The Imperialist Imagination, together with Zantop’s Colonial…
‘The War was a Great Link’
When Germans began to return to the British Mandate of Tanganyika (formerly German East Africa) in the mid-1920s, they had to navigate their new position in the territory, in particular vis-à-vis their British neighbours and British authorities. The history of German colonialism in the region and, more immediately, the local history of a war fought between the British and the Germans could have proven an obstacle to smooth relations between the t…
A Foot in the Door
After 1925, German settlers began to return to the former German East Africa, lost through the Treaty of Versailles and transformed into the British Mandate of Tanganyika. The German Foreign Office's Colonial Section took on a proactive role to facilitate these Germans’ settlement in their former colony, including working with German ministries to release funding and navigating the British administration and settlers on the ground in Tanganyika. …
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