Untold stories: Black victims of nazi genocide
on September 18, 2007
Category: African Diaspora, African History
Hitler referred to them as “Rhineland bastards” - the hundreds of children born of German mothers and African fathers. The men were African soldiers deployed by the French army in Germany’s Rhineland after WW1. Finally a memorial is to be erected outside the home of one Black victim of the Nazi holocoust giving a name to the nameless. Mahjub bin Adam Mohamed originally from Tanzania who married a German woman and was charged with ‘miscegenation’. He died in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, in November 1944.
The idea behind the memorial - part of the Stolperstein Project, is to remember the millions of nameless and forgotten minorities Blacks, Gypsies, Disabled, Homosexuals, Communists and conicides with the publication of “Truthful Till Death” by Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst.
The book focuses attention on the persecution of black people under the Third Reich, which included forced sterilisation and, ultimately, extermination.
Reveiws of other books on the African German experience can be found at H-Net Review: People and Places: Biography and the African-German Experience
Tags: African German; Germany; Nazi
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12 Comments so far
1. BronzeTrinity
September 18th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
Thats sad. Once again, Black victims are ignored…
2. Kym Platt
September 18th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
I had no idea! Thanks for the post.
3. dara
September 18th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
something many people don’t know about. thanx for posting.
4. Riemer
September 19th, 2007 at 9:27 am
I made a picture from this “Stolperstein”:
http://bp2.blogger.com/_fR4Z_ndg3sg/RuqPFJESLQI/AAAAAAAAAOI/fFqvJZ3-GB4/s1600-h/stolper_big.jpg
Best wishes from Berlin,
Riemer
5. Sokari
September 19th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Riemer Thank you so much for this. I will add it to the post.
6. Jon Petit
September 19th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Black victims ignored? The SA Boer farm murders have not exactly been front page news. Ignored by black people in South Africa - what happened to their souls?
7. Irgun Stern
September 20th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Can you provide more detailed information on Black Victims of the Holocaust?
We would like to post it on our web site http://www.thearmchairterrorist.org
We believe all victims of the Holocaust should be recognized and honored. 10 million were murdered by the Nazi’s but only 6 million were Jews, It is necessary that all who suffered be seen for who and what they were. With the raising tide of the white supremacy/neo-nazi movement, it is quite possible we will, as American’s, drive ourselves back to the terrible atrocities of the KKK against the Black, the Jew and others they felt were “mud peoples”.
We can not allow this to happen again in our country. We need to stand together against this evil, least we end up like Nazi Germany.
Respectfully Submitted
8. Richard C. Mongler
September 22nd, 2007 at 7:32 am
PROTIP: No one cares about the fact that you are black.
9. Global Voices Online » Africa: Black victims of Nazi holocoust
September 24th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
[…] Black Looks writes: “Finally a memorial is to be erected outside the home of one Black victim of the Nazi holocoust giving a name to the nameless. Mahjub bin Adam Mohamed originally from Tanzania who married a German woman and was charged with ‘miscegenation’. He died in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, in November 1944.” Share This […]
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September 24th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
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11. molly
September 25th, 2007 at 5:53 am
There’s an interesting story linked from a black experience site (dayinblackhistory.com) I frequent - see: http://www.dayinblackhistory.com/shownews14.aspx
It is pretty sad. There are also some other interesting news that ignite me: http://www.dayinblackhistory.com/news.aspx
12. Hathor
September 29th, 2007 at 9:59 am
I had heard of Hans Massaquoi who now lives in the US. He had written a book about growing up in Nazi Germany. Just recently I became aware of him and I wondered how he had survived the Nazis. I didn’t read his book or do more research to find out were there more blacks that live in Germany a the time. However, I am not surprised of their fate. I am surprised that I would not have heard of this til now. I knew there were some blacks, but I didn’t know they were German citizens.