Dr Hütten's book 'German Identity, Intermarriage and Divorce in Colonial Samoa (1900-1914)' examines how German colonial governance in Samoa (1900–1914) used legal frameworks surrounding marriage and divorce to construct and assert a specific notion of German identity (Deutschtum). The study reveals how personal relationships became a battleground for defining legal and cultural boundaries between colonizer and colonized, and how German legal identity was projected, contested, and sometimes contradicted in the daily realities of colonial Samoa. Moderation by Dr Kimiko Suda. Comment by Minu Haschemi Yekani.