Were there black Nazis?

Question

I was just wondering if there were. It came up in a conversation

Answer 1

NO, but many Blacks, steadfast in their belief that they were German first, Black second, opted to remain in Germany. Some fought with the Nazis (a few even became Lutwaffe pilots)!


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Black German Holocaust Victims

So much of our history is lost to us because we often don't write the history books, don't film the documentaries, or don't pass the accounts down from generation to generation. One documentary now touring the film festival circuit, telling us to "Always Remember" is " Black Survivors ofthe Holocaust" (1997). Outside the U.S., the film isentitled "Hitler's Forgotten Victims" (Afro-Wisdom Productions). It codifies another dimension to the "Never Forget" Holocaust story - our dimension.

Did you know that in the 1920s, there were 24,000 Blacks living in Germany? Neither did I. Here's how it happened, and how many of them were eventually caught unawares by the events of the Holocaust.

Like most West European nations, Germany established colonies in Africa in the late 1800s in what later became Togo, Cameroon, SPAN Namibia, and Tanzania. German genetic experiments began there, most notably involving prisoners taken from the 1904 Heroro Massacre that left 60,000 Africans dead, following a 4-year revolt against German colonisation. After the shellacking Germany received in World War I, it was stripped of its African colonies in 1918.

As a spoil of war, the French were allowed to occupy Germany in the Rhineland - a bitter piece of real estate that has gone back and forth between the two nations for centuries. The French willfully deployed their own colonised African soldiers as the occupying force. Germans viewed this as the final insult of World War I, and, soon thereafter, 92% of them voted in the Nazi party.

Hundreds of the African Rhineland-based soldiers intermarried with German women and raised their children as Black Germans. In Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote about his plans for these "Rhineland Bastards". When he came to power, one of his first directives was aimed at these mixed-race children. Underscoring Hitler's obsession with racial purity, by 1937, every identified mixed-race child in the Rhineland had been forcibly sterilized, in order to prevent further "race polluting", as Hitler termed it.

Hans Hauck, a Black Holocaust survivor and a victim of Hitler's mandatory sterilisation program, explained in the film "Hitler's Forgotten Victims" that, when he was forced to undergo sterilisation as a teenager, he was given no anaesthetic. Once he received his sterilisation certificate, he was "free to go", so long as he agreed to have no sexual relations whatsoever with Germans.

Although most Black Germans attempted to escape their fatherland, heading for France where people like Josephine Baker were steadily aiding and supporting the French Underground, many still encountered problems elsewhere. Nations shut their doors to Germans, including the Black ones. Some Black Germans were able to eke out a living during Hitler's reign of terror by performing in Vaudeville shows, but many Blacks, steadfast in their belief that they were German first, Black second, opted to remain in Germany. Some fought with the Nazis (a few even became Lutwaffe pilots)!

Unfortunately, many Black Germans were arrested, charged with treason, and shipped in cattle cars to concentration camps. Often these trains were so packed with people and (equipped with no bathroom facilities or food), that, after the four-day journey, box car doors were opened to piles of the dead and dying. Once inside the concentration camps, Blacks were given the worst jobs conceivable. Some Black American soldiers, who were captured and held as prisoners of war, recounted that, while they were being starved and forced into dangerous labour (violating the Geneva Convention), they were still better off than Black German concentration camp detainees, who were forced to do the unthinkable-man the crematoriums and work in labs where genetic experiments were being conducted. As a final sacrifice, these Blacks were killed every three months so that they would never be able to reveal the inner workings of the "Final Solution".

In every story of Black oppression, no matter how we were enslaved, shackled, or beaten, we always found a way to survive and to rescue others. As a case in point, consider Johnny Voste, a Belgian resistance fighter who was arrested in 1942 for alleged sabotage and then shipped to Dachau. One of his jobs was stacking vitamin crates. Risking his own life, he distributed hundreds of vitamins to camp detainees, which saved the lives of many who were starving, weak, and ill-conditions exacerbated by extreme vitamin deficiencies. His motto was "No, you can't have my life; I will fight for it."

According to Essex University's Delroy Constantine-Simms*, there were Black Germans who resisted Nazi Germany, such as Lari Gilges, who founded the Northwest Rann - an organisation of entertainers that fought the Nazis in his home town of Dusseldorf - and who was murdered by the SS in 1933, the year that Hitler came into power.

Little information remains about the numbers of Black Germans held in the camps or killed under the Nazi regime. Some victims of the Nazi sterilisation project and Black survivors of the Holocaust are still alive and telling their story in films such as "Black Survivors of the Nazi Holocaust", but they must also speak out for justice, not just history.

Unlike Jews (in Israel and in Germany), Black Germans receive no war reparations because their German citizenship was revoked (even though they were German-born). The only pension they get is from those of us who are willing to tell the world their stories and continue their battle for recognition and compensation.

After the war, scores of Blacks who had somehow managed to survive the Nazi regime, were rounded up and tried as war criminals. Talk about the final insult! There are thousands of Black Holocaust stories, from the triangle trade, to slavery in America, to the gas ovens in Germany. We often shy away from hearing about our historical past because so much of it is painful; however, we are in this struggle together for rights, dignity, and, yes, reparations for wrongs done to us through the centuries. We need to always remember so that we can take steps to ensure that these atrocities never happen again.

For further information, read: Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany, by Hans J. Massaquoi.
[Book available in our bookshop in Blacks & Nazi Germany]

NEVER FORGET!

Written by A. Tolbert, III

Answer 2

No, the Nazis would not have allowed blacks to join. Not only this, but the Nazis were based in Germany, which has relatively few blacks in its population. Had there been blacks in Germany at that time, they would have most likely been sent to concentration camps.
In fact, Hitler was a great admirer of the United States, and how it had enslaved what he saw as its 'inferior races'
So this clearly demonstrates that he had no love for black people.

Answer 3

Well, no. The Nationlist Socialist Part of Germany were the Nazis and believed in a racial superiority (Blonde hair, blue eyes, something not too many African Americans have naturally, especially in 1939) Even though Hitler himself did not fit the description, he was a man of power, education and ideals and at the time though most blacks were free from slavery, they were not regarded as equals and did not recieve the education needed to be accepted into such a political party. However, black people could create their own Nationalist Socialist Part in which the superior race would be black hair, brown eyes, dark skin, but the name Nazi was particular to the German Nationalist Socialist Party, moslty due to the fact that in english you don't get the zi at the end by combining the two words.

Answer 4

Yes, there were Black soldiers in the Nazi German army. Everything they have told you in school is a lie. Everything. There were about 25,000 - 40,000 African-Germans during WW2. They were used to fight battles against US troops (that were primarily Black). But where they considered actual Nazi. Hitler didn't allow them to wear the African/Asian symbol adopted by Hitler known as the Swastika. Since the original Greeks were Black as well as Egypt, Hitler had a deep respect for Blacks, he just felt they were inferior and was in the process of sterilizing them so they couldn't reproduce. Because he didn't want them mixing with Whites. Whites are suppose the superior race that was created by Africans as an army. After WW2, the USA secretly stole the Eugenics program and employment discrimination used by Hitler and brought it to the USA. Now, Blacks in the USA are lost without a clue in the world, because Whites continue to print false teachings in schools around the world.

Answer 5

No the Nazis had to have blonde hair with blue eyes and white skin, they would not allow blacks, in fact Hitler treated the blacks very badly, and the black people from that time that suffered were called The Forgotten Black victims,because history does not talk about them as they do about the Jewish. Many of the blacks were used in experiments and were also sent to concentration camps and were treated very badly.

Answer 6

Yes there were..black, muslims and Asians that were Nazis..it's just hidden. Nazis documented everything they did.

Answer 7

No there were no black Nazis.

Answer 8

you guys are idiot!!! The Nazis did not care about them! Only the Jews! The pictures you see of blacks in the holocaust were black soldiers!! Not Black citizens of Germany.

Answer 9

no, because Nazis only belived to pure blond and blue eye arian northic race. even the blacks and Africans were deep down in Nazis propaganda who, their dist like them

Answer 10

No, but Iraqis served in the German army. They got their butts kicked by the British and then went on to do some of Hitler's dirty work. They were, however, not permitted in the SS.

Answer 11

No...the Nazis considered the blacks inferior, the same as Jewish people..