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The black band became particularly strong in the Province of Upper Silesia where cadres were organised from 1929 in Beuthen, Bobrek, Gleiwitz, Katscher, Ratibor and Rosenberg. The Silesian formations were known to be able to call upon several hundred militants, [ 5 ] although in 1932 some of their leading members, including Paul Czakon , were ...
Afro-Germans (German: Afrodeutsche) or Black Germans (German: schwarze Deutsche) are Germans of Sub-Saharan African descent. Cities such as Hamburg and Frankfurt, which were formerly centres of occupation forces following World War II and more recent immigration , have substantial Afro-German communities.
Young Rhinelander who was classified as a bastard and hereditarily unfit under the Nazi regime. Rhineland bastard (German: Rheinlandbastard) was a derogatory term used in Nazi Germany to describe Afro-Germans, born of mixed-race relationships between German women and black African men of the French Army who were stationed in the Rhineland during its occupation by France after World War I.
Josephine Apraku, who is Black and German, writes that over the years, “Black Germans have faced the challenge of figuring out where we fit in the African diaspora.” Opinion: What it means to ...
Germany’s history of racial discrimination begins long before the Nazis began excluding, deporting and ultimately murdering Black people in the 1930s and 1940s. The German Empire held numerous ...
The Black Reichswehr is featured in Babylon Berlin, the German neo-noir television series based on the 2008 novel Der nasse Fisch (The Wet Fish) by Volker Kutscher. In the first two seasons, the organisation is depicted as plotting a coup of the Weimar Republic to restore the German Empire, returning Wilhelm II to the throne and installing ...
The German population's psychological acceptance of the atrocities was achieved with Nazi propaganda (print, radio, cinema), a key factor behind the manufactured consent that justified German brutality towards civilians; by continually manipulating the national psychology, the Nazis convinced the German people to believe that Slavs and Jews ...
When the Great Depression hit in the early 1930s, Hitler and his followers were ready to take advantage of the German people’s despair and to focus their attention on a scapegoat—the political ...