{"id":58127,"date":"2019-05-22T00:29:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T00:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58127"},"modified":"2019-05-22T00:29:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T00:29:33","slug":"being-black-in-nazi-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58127","title":{"rendered":"Being black in Nazi Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being black in Nazi Germany<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

BBC News<\/a>
\n2019-05-21<\/p>\n

Damian Zane<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"A<\/a>
\nThis photo was used in genetics lectures at Germany’s<\/a> State Academy for Race and Health Library of Congress<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Film director Amma Asante<\/a> came across an old photograph taken in Nazi Germany<\/a> of a black schoolgirl by chance.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Standing among her white classmates, who stare straight into the camera, she enigmatically glances to the side.<\/p>\n

Curiosity about the photograph – who the girl was and what she was doing in Germany<\/a> – set the award-winning film-maker off on a path that led to Where Hands Touch<\/em><\/a>, a new movie starring Amandla Stenberg<\/a> and George MacKay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is an imagined account of a mixed-race teenager’s clandestine relationship with a Hitler Youth<\/a> member, but it is based on historical record…<\/p>\n

…Racist caricatures<\/strong><\/p>\n

The derogatory term “Rhineland bastards<\/a>” was coined in the 1920s to refer to the 600-800 mixed-race children who were the result of those relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Newspaper<\/a>
\nThe 1936 headline in the Frankfurter Volksblatt<\/em><\/a> says: “600 Bastards<\/a> Accused, the legacy of black crimes against the Rhinelanders” Robbie Aitken<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The term spoke to some people’s imagined fears of an impure race. Made-up stories and racist caricatures of sexually predatory African soldiers were circulated at the time, fuelling concern…<\/p>\n

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

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