Author: Raffael Scheck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521857994
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Author: Clarence Lusane
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135955239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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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.

Author: Firpo W. Carr
Publisher: ScholarTechnological Institute of Research
ISBN: 9780963129345
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Raffael Scheck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108841759
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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An innovative study of empathy, sex, and love between prisoners of war and German women during World War II.

Author: Hans Massaquoi
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061856606
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 742

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This “extraordinary” memoir of a black man’s coming of age in Nazi Germany is “an entirely engaging story of accomplishment despite adversity.” —Washington Post Book World In Destined to Witness, Hans Massaquoi has crafted a beautifully rendered memoir—an astonishing true tale of growing up black in Nazi Germany. The son of a prominent African and a German nurse, Hans remained behind with his mother when Hitler came to power, after his father returned to Liberia. Like other German boys, Hans went to school; like other German boys, he swiftly fell under the Fuhrer’s spell. So he was crushed to learn that, as a black child, he was ineligible for the Hitler Youth. His path to a secondary education and an eventual profession was blocked. He now lived in fear that, at any moment, he might hear the Gestapo banging on the door—or Allied bombs falling on his home. Ironic, moving, and deeply human, Massaquoi’s account of this lonely struggle for survival brims with courage and intelligence. “A cry against racism, a survivor’s tale, a wartime adventure, a coming of age story, and a powerful tribute to a mother’s love.”—New Orleans Times-Picayune “An incredible tale . . . Exceptional.” —Chicago Sun Times “Destined to Witness examines a roller coaster of racism from different cultures and continents.” —The New York Times Book Review “Here is a story rarely lived and even more rarely told. We need this book for a balanced picture of the Holocaust.” —Maya Angelou “A nuanced, startling memoir.” —Kirkus Reviews “An engaging story of a young man’s journey through hate, self-enlightenment, intrigue and romance.” —Ebony

Author: Robbie Aitken
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107041368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383

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A groundbreaking account of the development of Germany's first African community, which offers fascinating perspectives on transnational German history.

Author: Ina R. Friedman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395745151
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Personal narratives of Christians, Gypsies, deaf people, homosexuals, and Blacks who suffered at the hands of the Nazis before and during World War II.

Author: Wendy Lower
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547863381
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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About the participation of German women in World War II and in the Holocaust.

Author: Raffael Scheck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107056810
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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This book discusses the experience of French colonial prisoners of war captured by Nazi Germany during World War II. It illustrates that the colonial prisoners' contradictory experiences with French authorities, French civilians, and German guards led to clashes with a colonial administration eager to return to a discriminatory routine following the war.

Author: Nikolaus Wachsmann
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300217293
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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State prisons played an indispensable part in the terror of the Third Reich, incarcerating many hundreds of thousands of men and women during the Nazi era. This important book illuminates the previously unknown world of Nazi prisons, their victims, and the judicial and penal officials who built and operated this system of brutal legal terror. Nikolaus Wachsmann describes the operation and function of legal terror in the Third Reich and brings Nazi prisons to life through the harrowing stories of individual inmates. Drawing on a vast array of archival materials, he traces the series of changes in prison policies and practice that led eventually to racial terror, brutal violence, slave labor, starvation, and mass killings. Wachsmann demonstrates that "ordinary" legal officials were ready collaborators who helped to turn courts and prisons into key components in the Nazi web of terror. And he concludes with a discussion of the whitewash of the Nazi legal system in postwar West Germany.