BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY Did the Nazi kill black people?
first i hear yes they killed all black people then I hear there were a certain black people that could have lived in germany but got sterilized What happedned to the Africans in ...show more
First, to Fangda, the Nazis killed more than Jews. In all, Nazis killed between 11 million and 12 million people in their death camps of which Jews were the largest group at six million people. Gypsies, Poles, Slavs and Russians made up most of the other five to six million people. Others killed by the Nazis were communists, socialists, Catholics and Evangelical Christians. We remember the Jews, primarily because of the great work of Simon Wiesenthal, but we have forgotten many of the others. We should remember the Jewish deaths, but we lose some of the horror of the German Holocaust when we forget the millions of other victims.
As for blacks, there was a small black German population due to Germany's African colonies, French colonial troops who occupied the Rhineland as part of France's occupation following World War 1, and some immigration to places like Berlin. Even today, there is a small population of Afrogermans -- between 300,000 and 500,000 of a population of 82 million people (between a third and two-thirds of a percent of the total population), and there has been an increase in the percentage of Afrogermans as part of Germany's population due to the stationing of hundreds of thousands of American soldiers in Germany since the end of World War 2.
Still, the small Afrogerman population suffered under Hitler. Hitler desired to kill inter-racial children, particularly those born from liaisons between German women and French colonial troops. In Mien Kemp, he writes, "The mulatto children came about through rape or the white mother was a whore. In both cases, there is not the slightest moral duty regarding these offspring of a foreign race." And, these children, particularly those born in the Rhineland, suffered greatly. Over 400 were involuntarily sterilized and, in 1937 alone, nearly 400 Afrogerman children disappeared.
Black POWs, whether taken from American units or French or English colonial units, were treated horribly by the Germans. Often these POWs did not make it to camps as they were frequently executed on the spot by German troops. Those black POWs who were interned were not held in POW camps, but in death and work camps where many died from disease, malnutrition, maltreatment, including summary execution, and overwork. In all, counting Afrogermans, Afrofrench, other black minority populations in countries conquered by the Nazis and POWs, it is estimated that between 25,000 and 50,000 blacks died in German death camps. Again, the number is low, compared to the total number of 11 million to 12 million who died in the camps, but the population
As for blacks, there was a small black German population due to Germany's African colonies, French colonial troops who occupied the Rhineland as part of France's occupation following World War 1, and some immigration to places like Berlin. Even today, there is a small population of Afrogermans -- between 300,000 and 500,000 of a population of 82 million people (between a third and two-thirds of a percent of the total population), and there has been an increase in the percentage of Afrogermans as part of Germany's population due to the stationing of hundreds of thousands of American soldiers in Germany since the end of World War 2.
Still, the small Afrogerman population suffered under Hitler. Hitler desired to kill inter-racial children, particularly those born from liaisons between German women and French colonial troops. In Mien Kemp, he writes, "The mulatto children came about through rape or the white mother was a whore. In both cases, there is not the slightest moral duty regarding these offspring of a foreign race." And, these children, particularly those born in the Rhineland, suffered greatly. Over 400 were involuntarily sterilized and, in 1937 alone, nearly 400 Afrogerman children disappeared.
Black POWs, whether taken from American units or French or English colonial units, were treated horribly by the Germans. Often these POWs did not make it to camps as they were frequently executed on the spot by German troops. Those black POWs who were interned were not held in POW camps, but in death and work camps where many died from disease, malnutrition, maltreatment, including summary execution, and overwork. In all, counting Afrogermans, Afrofrench, other black minority populations in countries conquered by the Nazis and POWs, it is estimated that between 25,000 and 50,000 blacks died in German death camps. Again, the number is low, compared to the total number of 11 million to 12 million who died in the camps, but the population
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