{"id":39779,"date":"2015-02-02T01:04:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T01:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39779"},"modified":"2016-04-01T15:59:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T15:59:09","slug":"black-germans-and-the-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39779","title":{"rendered":"Black Germans and the Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk\/2015\/01\/black-germans-and-the-holocaust\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Black Germans and the Holocaust<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk\/ism\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">International Slavery Museum<\/a><br \/>\nLiverpool, England, United Kingdom<br \/>\n2015-01-14<\/p>\n<p>The International Slavery Museum will be marking <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holocaust_Memorial_Days\" target=\"_blank\">Holocaust Memorial Day<\/a> on Tuesday 27 January with a special free guest lecture by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liv.ac.uk\/modern-languages-and-cultures\/staff\/eve-rosenhaft\/\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Eve Rosenhaft<\/a> from the University of Liverpool, who will be talking about the experiences of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afro-Germans\" target=\"_blank\">Black German<\/a> community during <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Holocaust\" target=\"_blank\">the Holocaust<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Eve tells us more:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adolf_Hitler\" target=\"_blank\">Hitler<\/a> came to power in 1933, there were a several thousand people of African descent in Germany. They included African Americans, African-Caribbean and Africans passing through, working or recently settled, but the core of Germany\u2019s Black community was made up of men from Germany\u2019s former colonies \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_Africa_Protectorate\" target=\"_blank\">East Africa<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Togo\" target=\"_blank\">Togo<\/a>, and especially <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cameroon\" target=\"_blank\">Cameroon<\/a> \u2013 with their German-born wives and \u2018mixed-race\u2019 children.<\/p>\n<p>This talk focuses on those families. While Hitler was still hoping to recover colonies in Africa, the Nazis hoped to make use of them for political propaganda. But \u2018mixed\u2019 families represented a particular challenge to Nazi racial policies, and in the long run they suffered exclusion, harassment, internment, and compulsory sterilisation. At the same time people\u2019s experiences were varied and sometimes adventurous. Most individuals survived in Germany or as emigrants, thanks to support from other members of the community and from their families, though the community itself came out of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" target=\"_blank\">World War II<\/a> largely broken and scattered&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk\/2015\/01\/black-germans-and-the-holocaust\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Germans and the Holocaust International Slavery Museum Liverpool, England, United Kingdom 2015-01-14 The International Slavery Museum will be marking Holocaust Memorial Day on Tuesday 27 January with a special free guest lecture by Professor Eve Rosenhaft from the University of Liverpool, who will be talking about the experiences of the Black German community during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,459,8],"tags":[3228,13846,2948,19221,969],"class_list":["post-39779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-europe","category-history","category-media-archive","tag-afro-germans","tag-eve-rosenhaft","tag-germany","tag-international-slavery-museum","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39779","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=39779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46365,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39779\/revisions\/46365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}