Hitlers Black Victims

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">As much as we may want to grant this behaviour as otherness, and not us is a mistake. </div></div>...or it's easy to <span style="text-decoration: line-through">find</span> imagine &quot;difference&quot; in others and act upon it.

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@Wahalla We might both be right about how the Nazis dealt with the <span style="font-style: italic">tirailleurs senegalais</span>. Here's another title that might interest you:

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Hitler's African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940</span> by Raffael Scheck

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">ISBN</span> 0521857996 (isbn13: 9780521857994)
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Description</span>
During its campaign against France in 1940, the German army massacred several thousand black POWs belonging to units drafted in France's West African colonies. Documenting these war crimes on the basis of extensive research in French and German archives, Raffael Scheck advances a nuanced interpretation of the motivation for the massacres. Reviving traditional images of black soldiers as mutilating savages, a massive Nazi Propaganda offensive approved by Hitler, created their rationale. <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 11pt">The treatment of black French POWs remained, however, suprisingly inconsistent</span></span>, with abuses often triggered by certain combat situations.

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Dawling that the same link I posted... seems greatminds think alike!

It has moved down the lst of books to read.. I just bought &quot;The Trouble with Africa&quot; Why forgien aid isnt working. By Robert Calderisi...

I got a pile of novels to read as well!

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic">Dawling that the same link I posted... seems greatminds think alike!</span> </div></div>Sorry, love, me never sight it.

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Leapold Senghor of Negritude fame spent time in these Nazi war camps and survived.. Check out his wikipedia entry.. and you note there is the amazing story that the germans were about to execute him and a French officer pointed out that this was rascist...

it strikes me that it was a com

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Check out this video, Wahalla.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxQJtvmLYso

[Wahalla]

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Thanks... Wish I had seen this before I read the book.. Here he is cleared and more definative than how the tale came out in the book...

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Thanks for the video and very interesting topic.

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Obit of the Day: “Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany”

Hans Massaquoi was very disappointed when his teacher told him that he could not join the Hitler Youth. Massaquoi’s friends had all joined and he was enthralled with the uniforms, the parades, the camp-outs. But Hans’ desire to join was trumped by the color of his skin.

Born in 1926, Mr. Massaquoi’s parents were a German nurse and the son of a Liberian diplomat. He would grow up in Hamburg as the Weimar Republic was collapsing and the the Third Reich was building up.

When he was in second grade, Mr. Massaquoi was so taken with the Nazi imagery that, at his request, his nanny sewed a swastika to his sweater. Although his mother removed it when he returned home from school, a picture had already been taken. (See above.)

Mr. Massaquoi’s family lived in Germany for the duration of the war. According to Mr. Massaquoi’s memoir, Destined to Witness, he theorized that there were so few blacks living in Germany that they were a low priority for extermination. Eventually he would move: first to his father’s home country of Liberia and later to Chicago.

In the United States, although trained in aviation mechanics, Mr. Massaquoi would become a writer for Jet magazine and eventual move to its sister publication, Ebony, where he became managing editor.

Mr. Massaquoi, who passed away on January 19, 2013 on his 87th birthday, was encouraged to write down the story of his unusual childhood by his friend and author of Roots, Alex Haley.

Sources: L.A. Times and Chicago Sun-Times

Image is from Mr. Massaqoui’s collection and copyright of William Morrow Paperbacks via spiritosanto.wordpress.com.

[Wahalla]

Obit of the Day: “Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany”

Hans Massaquoi was very disappointed when his teacher told him that he could not join the Hitler Youth. Massaquoi’s friends had all joined and he was enthralled with the uniforms, the parades, the camp-outs. But Hans’ desire to join was trumped by the color of his skin.

Born in 1926, Mr. Massaquoi’s parents were a German nurse and the son of a Liberian diplomat. He would grow up in Hamburg as the Weimar Republic was collapsing and the the Third Reich was building up.

When he was in second grade, Mr. Massaquoi was so taken with the Nazi imagery that, at his request, his nanny sewed a swastika to his sweater. Although his mother removed it when he returned home from school, a picture had already been taken. (See above.)

Mr. Massaquoi’s family lived in Germany for the duration of the war. According to Mr. Massaquoi’s memoir, Destined to Witness, he theorized that there were so few blacks living in Germany that they were a low priority for extermination. Eventually he would move: first to his father’s home country of Liberia and later to Chicago.

In the United States, although trained in aviation mechanics, Mr. Massaquoi would become a writer for Jet magazine and eventual move to its sister publication, Ebony, where he became managing editor.

Mr. Massaquoi, who passed away on January 19, 2013 on his 87th birthday, was encouraged to write down the story of his unusual childhood by his friend and author of Roots, Alex Haley.

Sources: L.A. Times and Chicago Sun-Times

Image is from Mr. Massaqoui’s collection and copyright of William Morrow Paperbacks via spiritosanto.wordpress.com.

Sorry to hear of his passing.. I read his book Destined to Witness when I lived in Libya...I wrote a reveiw of it on here back in 2001 or 2003... the particular story in it that strck with me was when he finished school he had to be interveiwed by the Hilter Youth Section leader... (He also wanted to join the Hilter Youth)... After a formal interveiw he was releived to get out without being insulted and being told he would work in a factory. He turned and walked out... The Hilter youth angrily spoke to him with his hand on the door... He turned scared. The Hilter Youth said to him this is not how u were taught in school. He told Mr Massaquoi to shake his hand was good manners...

His mother was betrayed by a diplomat from Liberia.... literally and that he survived without being castrated is testment to the mother.. incdentally there was a menion of a Vietanmese who was in the Luftwaffe.. In Brevour World war II mention of a Korean who fought the Japanese, fought for the Japanese fought for the Russians and finally for the Germans and at the end of the war setlled in the USA....