Hitlers Brudervolk : the Dutch and the colonization of occupied Eastern Europe 1939 1945 This is the first academic book on Dutch colonial aspirations and initiatives during WWII. Between the summers of 1941 and 1944 some 5 500 Dutch men and women left their occupied homeland to find employment in the so called German Occupied Eastern Territories: Belarus the Baltic countries and parts of Ukraine. This was the area designated for colonization by Germanic people. It was also the stage of the Holocaust by Bullets  a centrally coordinated policy of exploitation and oppression and a ruthless anti partisan war. This book seeks to answer why the Dutch decided to go there how their recruitment transfer and stay were organized and how they reacted to this scene of genocidal violence. It is a close up study of racial monomania of empire building on the old continent and of collaboration in Nazi occupied Europe