‘Brown Babies:’ Post-war Germany’s Mixed-race ChildrenPosted in Articles, Europe, History, Identity Development/Psychology, Media Archive, United States on 2013-02-28 04:18Z by Steven |
‘Brown Babies:’ Post-war Germany’s Mixed-race Children
The Washington Informer
Washington, D.C.
2012-02-27
Barrington M. Salmon
For much of his adult life, Daniel Cardwell has been immersed in a search for his identity and his past.
He told an audience at Bowie State University recently that he remembers a childhood where he was never hugged or shown love by the couple who adopted him, and it was a childhood filled with “confusion, questions and secrets.”
“I was a brown baby looking for mama, someone who wanted to belong. Abandonment and rejection are two emotions we all have,” said Cardwell during a panel discussion after the airing of the documentary, Brown Babies, The Mischlingkinder Story.
Cardwell is one of an estimated 100,000 biracial children born to German women and African-American servicemen stationed in Europe during World War II. He was brought to the United States when he was three and grew up with a couple who raised him along with five other mixed race German children. Cardwell traveled to six times and spent 30 years and $250,000 in his quest for greater knowledge of his background and heritage…
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