{"id":27752,"date":"2013-01-21T21:53:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T21:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27752"},"modified":"2016-07-11T00:25:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T00:25:44","slug":"editor-who-grew-up-black-in-nazi-germany-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27752","title":{"rendered":"Editor who grew up black in Nazi Germany dies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor who grew up black in Nazi Germany dies<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Miami Herald<\/a>
\n2013-01-21<\/p>\n

Freida Frisaro<\/strong>, Associated Press<\/p>\n

MIAMI — Hans Massaquoi<\/a>, a former managing editor of Ebony<\/em> magazine who wrote a distinctive memoir about his unusual childhood growing up black in Nazi Germany<\/a>, has died. He was 87.<\/p>\n

His son said Massaquoi died Saturday, on his 87th birthday, in Jacksonville<\/a>. He had been hospitalized over the Christmas holidays.<\/p>\n

“He had quite a journey in life,” said Hans J. Massaquoi, Jr., of Detroit. “Many have read his books and know what he endured. But most don’t know that he was a good, kind, loving, fun-loving, fair, honest, generous, hard-working and open-minded man. He respected others and commanded respect himself. He was dignified and trustworthy. We will miss him forever and try to live by his example.”…<\/p>\n

…He writes that one of his saddest moments as a child was when his homeroom teacher told him he couldn’t join the Hitler Youth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Of course I wanted to join. I was a kid and most of my friends were joining,” he said. “They had cool uniforms and they did exciting things – camping, parades, playing drums.”…<\/p>\n

Read the entire obituary here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor who grew up black in Nazi Germany dies The Miami Herald 2013-01-21 Freida Frisaro, Associated Press MIAMI — Hans Massaquoi, a former managing editor of Ebony magazine who wrote a distinctive memoir about his unusual childhood growing up black in Nazi Germany, has died. He was 87. His son said Massaquoi died Saturday, on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,28,8,20],"tags":[3228,13451,2948,6443],"class_list":["post-27752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-europe","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-afro-germans","tag-freida-frisaro","tag-germany","tag-hans-massaquoi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48204,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27752\/revisions\/48204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}