{"id":54607,"date":"2017-07-21T20:30:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T20:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54607"},"modified":"2017-07-25T03:40:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T03:40:53","slug":"the-fate-of-afro-germans-under-nazis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54607","title":{"rendered":"The Fate of Afro Germans under Nazis"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fate of Afro Germans under Nazis<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

CNN<\/a> (Cable News Network)
\n2017-07-21<\/p>\n

Nosmot Gbadamosi<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nCaption: Two survivors prepare food outside the barracks. The man on the right is thought to be Jean (Johnny) Voste, born in Belgian Congo<\/a> — the only black prisoner in Dachau<\/a>. Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum<\/a>, courtesy of Frank Manucci Date: May 1945<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

A new film aims to highlight a Nazi<\/a> “secret” mission to sterilize hundreds of Afro German<\/a> children.<\/em><\/p>\n

(CNN)In 1937, mixed race children living in the Rhineland<\/a> were tracked down by the Gestapo<\/a> and sterilized<\/a> on “secret order<\/a>.” Some were later the subject of medical experiments, while others vanished<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“There were known to be around 800 Rhineland children at the time,” says historian Eve Rosenhaft<\/a>, professor of German Historical Studies, at the University of Liverpool.<\/p>\n

It was a little known part of Holocaust<\/a> history until Mo Abudu<\/a>, chief executive of Nigerian media network EbonyLife TV<\/a>, read an online article<\/a> by Rosenhaft on the plight of these children.<\/p>\n

“When I read about it [the article] I just thought we need to put this to screen,” says Abudu. “There are many children in that era born of African and German parentage and I felt what happened to those people. Their stories are totally untold.”<\/p>\n

EbonyLife TV intends to tell their stories through a film called “Ava and Duante.” The film is set in an undisclosed location in Europe<\/a> and will focus on the plight of Afro Germans who suffered persecution under Hitler<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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

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