{"id":45495,"date":"2016-02-01T01:01:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T01:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45495"},"modified":"2017-01-29T20:55:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T20:55:59","slug":"what-happened-to-black-germans-under-the-nazis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45495","title":{"rendered":"What happened to black Germans under the Nazis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/what-happened-to-black-germans-under-the-nazis-53599\" target=\"_blank\">What happened to black Germans under the Nazis?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/us\" target=\"_blank\">The Conversation (US Pilot):\u00a0Academic rigor, journalistic flair<\/a><br \/>\n2016-01-26<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpool.ac.uk\/modern-languages-and-cultures\/staff\/eve-rosenhaft\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eve Rosenhaft<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of German Historical Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Liverpool<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The fact that we officially <a href=\"http:\/\/hmd.org.uk\/page\/why-mark-27-january-holocaust-memorial-day\" target=\"_blank\">commemorate<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Holocaust\" target=\"_blank\">Holocaust<\/a> on January 27, the date of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Auschwitz_concentration_camp#Evacuation.2C_death_marches.2C_and_liberation\" target=\"_blank\">liberation of Auschwitz<\/a>, means that remembrance of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nazism\" target=\"_blank\">Nazi<\/a> crimes focuses on the systematic mass murder of Europe\u2019s Jews.<\/p>\n<p>The other victims of Nazi racism, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sintiundroma.de\/en\/centre\/exhibitions\/exhibition-auschwitz.html\" target=\"_blank\">Europe\u2019s Sinti and Roma<\/a> are now <a href=\"http:\/\/hmd.org.uk\/genocides\/nazi-persecution\" target=\"_blank\">routinely named<\/a> in commemoration, but not all survivors have had equal opportunities to have their story heard. One group of victims who have yet to be publicly memorialised is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afro-Germans\" target=\"_blank\">black Germans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All those voices need to be heard, not only for the sake of the survivors, but because we need to see how varied the expressions of Nazi racism were if we are to understand the lessons of the Holocaust for today.<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adolf_Hitler\" target=\"_blank\">Hitler<\/a> came to power in 1933, there were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/gl\/academic\/subjects\/history\/twentieth-century-european-history\/black-germany-making-and-unmaking-diaspora-community-18841960?format=PB\" target=\"_blank\">understood to have been<\/a> some thousands of black people living in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Germany\" target=\"_blank\">Germany<\/a> \u2013 they were never counted and estimates vary widely. At the heart of an emerging black community was a group of men from Germany\u2019s own African colonies (which were lost under the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Treaty_of_Versailles\" target=\"_blank\">peace treaty <\/a>that ended <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_I\" target=\"_blank\">World War I<\/a>) and their German wives&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/what-happened-to-black-germans-under-the-nazis-53599\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happened to black Germans under the Nazis? The Conversation (US Pilot):\u00a0Academic rigor, journalistic flair 2016-01-26 Eve Rosenhaft, Professor of German Historical Studies University of Liverpool The fact that we officially commemorate the Holocaust on January 27, the date of the liberation of Auschwitz, means that remembrance of Nazi crimes focuses on the systematic mass [&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":[3228,13846,2948,5628,22867],"class_list":["post-45495","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-the-conversation","tag-the-conversation-us-pilot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45495","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=45495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45496,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45495\/revisions\/45496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}