The Nazi rule under the leadership of Chancellor Adolph Hitler banned blacks, and other leftists from bureaucracy and the Nazi organizations replaced the trade Unions. During this period, about 25,000 blacks resided in the Nazi Germany. The fate of the blacks during the Nazi rule in Germany ranged from segregation to Sterilization, persecution, incarceration, medical experimentation, cruelty, and murder. However, there existed no organized program for their eradication like for the Jews and other racial groups.
African-German mulatto children were economically and socially isolated and were not permitted to attend any university. Racism prohibited them from working in the military and other jobs. Adult blacks were also victims of racial discrimination. Many Africans came to Germany before and after the World War l as artisans, students, and former soldiers. Racist propaganda by the Nazi against the black soldiers who were part of the French colonial troops depicted them as carriers of diseases and rapists of German women. The children of the German women and the black soldiers were referred to as “Rhineland Bastards” and were viewed as a hazard to the purity of the white race. According to Mein Kampf (My Struggle) Hitler made a claim that the Jews brought the blacks to Rhineland with an intention of ruining the white race resulting in bastardization.
On 14th July 1933, the Nazis enacted a law for the forced sterilization of Gypsies, handicapped persons and the blacks. The Black Germans who portrayed resistance towards the Nazi rule such as Lari Gilges were murdered. Some of them were taken to the concentration camps and given the worst jobs such as manning the crematoriums and working in the genetic experiments labs and later got killed so that they will not disclose the inside workings of the camps. Those who managed to survive the Nazi rule were rounded and tried as criminals of war.
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