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Even before the events of World War II, Germany struggled with the idea of African mixed-race German citizens.While interracial marriage was legal under German law at the time, beginning in 1890, some colonial officials started refusing to register them, using eugenics arguments about the supposed inferiority of mixed-race children to support their decision. [3]
List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps administered by France List of prisoner-of-war camps in Allied-occupied Germany List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Kenya
Gert Schramm (28 November 1928 in Erfurt, Thuringia – 18 April 2016 in Eberswalde) was a survivor of Buchenwald concentration camp, where he was the youngest of six black prisoners. [1] He was the son of a German woman and an African-American father and was arrested in violation of Nazi racial purity laws.
Buchenwald inmates The bullet-ridden body of one SS guard, the other stabbed, who were killed in the Ohrdruf concentration camp soon after the liberation. Buchenwald memorial Buchenwald's crematorium Polish prisoners from Buchenwald awaiting execution in the forest near the camp, April 26, 1942 General Dwight Eisenhower and other high ranking U.S. Army officers view the bodies of prisoners ...
In addition to color-coding, non-German prisoners were marked by the first letter of the German name for their home country or ethnic group. Red triangle with a letter, for example: B (Belgier, Belgians) E (Engländer, "English"; in practice used for all British) F (Franzosen, French) I (Italiener, Italians) J [17] (Jugoslawen, Yugoslavs)
Buchenwald (German pronunciation: [ˈbuːxn̩valt]; literally 'beech forest') was a German Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within the Altreich (Old Reich) territories.
Pages in category "Prisoners and detainees of Germany" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 291 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
According to the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, there were 23 main concentration camps (German: Stammlager), of which most had a system of satellite camps. [1] Including the satellite camps, the total number of Nazi concentration camps that existed at one point in time is at least a thousand, although these did not all exist at the same time.