Although the legal definition of genocide became a foundation for categorising and analysing the Holocaust, cultural genocide has not been extensively explored within Holocaust Studies and has also largely been avoided within Colonial History, therefore hindering a global, historical understanding of patterns and practices of cultural destruction. Through utilising a transnational perspective which also includes examples of cultural destruction in colonial contexts, this Postdoc project will highlight the significance of cultural genocide as it relates to the Holocaust and global patterns, as well as entanglements between the histories of the Holocaust and colonialism. To do so, it will investigate examples of cultural destruction and robbery throughout Nazi-occupied territories in Europe and explore where policies, practices and perceptions of this destruction overlapped with other global historical examples.