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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.
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]
Now, with the rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, Black Germans and African migrants like Diallo are growing increasingly concerned. Thuringia, which has a population of 2.1 ...
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.”
In 2019 there were also a growing number of at least 529,000 black Afro-Germans defined as people with an African migrant background. [63] Out of them more than 400 thousand have a citizenship of a Subsahara-African country, [75] with others being German citizens. Most of them live in Berlin and Hamburg.
Black Deutschland is a made-for-television documentary film, directed by Oliver Hardt and produced by de-Arte. [1] The documentary is filmed in different cities in Germany and features people from all across the black diaspora who reside in Germany. Some have German parents, others are immigrants. The film was released in Germany on 27 January ...
A 1934 photograph of a Rheinlander from the German Federal Archives.From 1933 Afro-Germans were persecuted by Nazi Germany. The postwar years in Germany brought new challenges, including an ultimately unknowable number of illegitimate children born from unions between occupying Black French, Moroccan, Algerian, and Black American soldiers and native German women. [9]