Natalye Pass Harpin is a professor at Grossmont College and lecturer at UC San Diego, and will present 'Afro-Descendants in Nazi Germany,' exploring the racial policies of the Nazis toward Black Germans during the 1930s and '40s, on Feb. 28 at Central Library in downtown San Diego
, who were biracial and had German mothers and African fathers — they describe how they stood out because they were darker than their peers, but it wasn’t as hostile, with regard to them not being able to go to formal school, until the Nazis came to power.From what I’ve read, Black people in Germany were already dealing with anti-Black racism in Germany, so what was different once Adolf Hitler was leading the country?There was a lot more push to forcibly sterilize, for example.
I was reading in Hans Massaquoi’s book, “Destined to Witness,” and he was talking about how, often, the principal would organize a day where the students would document their Aryan status, or there would be Hitler Youth drills, but he would specifically single out Hans and not allow him to showcase anything. Hans talked about how he, of course, is a German boy because nationality and race are two different things.
Hans also mentions that when he was a child, an SS officer tried to grab him and pull him into a pub as an example of the shame of Germany that they’d allowed all of this diversity to happen in the first place. That there were Black people living there, mixed-race people living there. His mom had seen him and she intervened, but he was about 6 or 7 years old when this pack of adults decided they could assault and torment a child.
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