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Black Germans were also victims of the Nazis — but their story is mostly forgotten

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Post by Guest Wed Jan 27, 2016 11:19 am

The fact that we officially commemorate the Holocaust on January 27, the date of the liberation of Auschwitz, means that remembrance of Nazi crimes focuses on the systematic mass murder of Europe’s Jews. The other victims of Nazi racism, including Europe’s Sinti and Roma are now routinely named in commemoration, but not all survivors have had equal opportunities to have their story heard. One group of victims who have yet to be publicly memorialised is black Germans. All those voices need to be heard, not only for the sake of the survivors, but because we need to see how varied the expressions of Nazi racism were if we are to understand the lessons of the Holocaust for today.
When Hitler came to power in 1933, there were understood to have been some thousands of black people living in Germany – they were never counted and estimates vary widely. At the heart of an emerging black community was a group of men from Germany’s own African colonies (which were lost under the peace treaty that ended World War I) and their German wives. They were networked across Germany and abroad by ties of family and association and some were active in communist and anti-racist organisations. Among the first acts of the Nazi regime was the suppression of black political activism. There were also 600 to 800 children fathered by French colonial soldiers – many, though not all, African – when the French army occupied the Rhineland as part of the peace settlement after 1919 which returned to Germany when it annexed the Rhineland in 1936.


http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/black-germans-were-also-victims-of-the-nazis-but-their-story-is-mostly-forgotten/

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Post by Guest Wed Jan 27, 2016 1:10 pm

Very important to understand as is hardly told this part of the story

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Post by Guest Wed Jan 27, 2016 1:17 pm

Stormee wrote:Maybe because twaz so long ago hardly anyone gives a flying frog as modern life has them preoccupied.


So you do not care that this year the Uk will be commemorating the Battle of the Somme its centenary?

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