ABSTRACT
Drawing on interviews with the black survivors of Nazi concentration camps and archival research in North America, Europe, and Africa, this book documents and analyzes the meaning of Nazism's racial policies towards people of African descent, specifically those born in Germany, England, France, the United States, and Africa, and the impact of that legacy on contemporary race relations in Germany, and more generally, in Europe. The book also specifically addresses the concerns of those surviving Afro-Germans who were victims of Nazism, but have not generally been included in or benefited from the compensation agreements that have been developed in recent years.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|36 pages
Beyond a White German Past
part II|48 pages
Blackness before Hitler
chapter 3|23 pages
Soldiers of Misfortune, Children of Misfortune
part III|141 pages
“The Worst That You Can Imagine”
chapter 5|15 pages
Made in America, Perfected in Germany
chapter 10|13 pages
Blacks in the Resistance Movement
part IV|20 pages
Black Skins, German Masks