»Melber, a distinguished scholar who was once an anticolonial activist, argues that Germany has not come to terms with its imperial history from before World War I, when it ruled parts of present-day Cameroon, China, Namibia, Togo, Zanzibar, and part of New Guinea and some nearby South Sea islands. (…) In the end, the author’s primary concern is Germany’s unwillingness either to pledge formal ›reparations‹ to the residents of its former colonies or to promise more than a billion dollars over three decades in development funding, a sum smaller than what Germany gave over the prior three decades. The book reminds readers that the injustices of colonialism are rarely redressed to the satisfaction of its victims and their descendants.« − Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs, 21. Oktober 2025
