The Holocaust’s forgotten black victims – the ‘Rhineland Bastards’
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African-German girl in a school photo. Pic credit: USHMM
Most people know about the Nazi Holocaust, the murder of 6 million Jews and 6 million others: Russians, Gypsies, Slavs, socialists, disabled people and LGBT people.
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The term “Rhineland Bastard” is of course vile. It both articulated the Nazis’ biological construction of race and colonial conceptions of race and racial mixture that were seen as posing a threat to “white” superiority.
The isolation, segregation and attempted eradication of Germany’s black population was carried out in stages. This mirrors (obviously on a tiny scale) the methods used by the Nazis in their attempts to wipe out Europe’s Jewish population.
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The Nazis enacted a new law providing a basis for forced sterilisation of disabled people, Gypsies, and blacks on the 14 July 1933. If you want to read further about this horrific practice go to Benno Muellar-Hill’s Murderous Science: Elimination by Scientific Selection of Jews, Gypsies, and Others in Germany, 1933-1945.
African-German child with his schoolmates, under the Nazi regime. Pic credit: USHMM
A black inmate at Dachau, photographed immediately after liberation. Pic credit: USHMM
Read More http://www.dreamdeferred.org.uk/2014/04/the-holocausts-forgotten-victims-the-rhineland-bastards/
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in the realm to which they ended their lives on earth.
I so want to be hopeful, but the genocides of modern times since the holocaust--make that so difficult. 
