The Holocaust’s forgotten black victims – the ‘Rhineland Bastards’

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3. Yes.

Any young Afro-German woman who got pregnant was forced to have an abortion.

"And this what 'life" looked like for the ones that weren't KILLED."

Sterilized and more.

My heritage. I am close to half German, many of my ancestors were from Switzerland yet it pains my soul to see all the death and destruction of a Nazi Germany to...

Most people know about the Nazi Holocaust, the murder of 6 million Jews and 6 million others: Russians, Gypsies, Slavs, socialists, disabled people and LGBT people.

And yes, to Afro-Germans.

The black population of Germany at the time of the Third Reich was 20,000 – 25,000 out of a total population of over 65 million.

Even before the Nazis took power in 1933, Germany’s black population faced racial discrimination and violence. Most government, religious and colonial officials refused to register interracial marriages or births. The state promoted eugenics, and popularised arguments about the inferiority of dual-heritage children.