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Black people and neo-Nazism. Despite the racism black people faced in Nazi Germany, a small number of black people, usually Black Americans, have expressed neo-Nazi views and praise for Adolf Hitler.
Afro-Germans and Black Soldiers In The Holocaust. The fate of Hitler’s Black victims--whether Afro-German or African-American soldiers and citizens--is often overlooked in studies of World War II. The genocide of six million Jews is the central tragedy of the Holocaust and more recent studies point to the persecution of the disabled and ...
While the Germans considered the Senegalese and Moroccan soldiers fierce fighters, the Third Reich, in its racial war, classified blacks as subhuman and many were executed upon capture. Others were worked to death in Nazi construction projects or died of abuses suffered in concentration camps.
During the Nazi era (1933–1945), the Nazis used racial laws and policies to restrict the economic and social opportunities of Black people in Germany. They also harassed, imprisoned, sterilized, and murdered an unknown number of Black people.
The one case we have of a black person being sent to a concentration camp explicitly for being a Mischling (mulatto) – Gert Schramm, interned in Buchenwald aged 15 – comes from 1944. Instead,...
And some African soldiers who fought for Germany in the war also settled there. But there was a second group whose presence went on to feed into the Nazis' fear of racial mixing.
This blog post aims to raise awareness of the persecution of Black and mixed-race people by the Nazis and their collaborators by exploring their incarceration in the Nazi camp system using records from the Library’s digital copy of the International Tracing Service archive.
Black occupation troops were part of the effort to prevent the resurgence of Nazism, yet for years were housed in segregated quarters, barred from officers’ clubs (regardless of their rank)...
In close combat, German units fought against black soldiers of the French army with a ruthlessness that sug-gested that no prisoners would be taken. On many occasions, black prisoners of war were shot—sometimes up to several hundred at a time. When Germans did not kill black prisoners outright, they often separated them from the white
The attention paid to the experiences of Afro-German individuals during the Holocaust has been underwhelming because they were an incredibly small minority in Germany. But each of their stories matter.