Hitler's Black Victims: The Historical Experiences of European Blacks, Africans, and African Americans During the Nazi Era

by Clarence Lusane

Crosscurrents in African American History

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This book documents and analyzes the meaning of Nazism's racial policies towards people of African descent, and the impact of that legacy on contemporary race relations.

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This is a book that I have coveted for a long time and was not able to purchase due to the availability, the price, and the taxes and shipping charges. I am very very grateful to a secretsanta who purchased it for me as a gift so that I now can have the chance to study and own this book and to add it to my holocaust and black history studies collections. There really is a Santa Claus!
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The Nazi era in Germany and all of its accompanying atrocities is one of the most documented periods in history. However, this documentation is incomplete in one important area: the history and experiences of people of African descent in Nazi Germany. Did Afro-Germans and other blacks suffer under Nazism? The answer to this question, to the show more degree it has been asked at all, remains vague even for those scholars and researchers familiar with the Nazi era and the Holocaust in particular.
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, France, England, the United States or 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.
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Clarence Lusane is Assistant Professor at the School of International Service, American University. He is also a journalist whose work has appeared in publications like The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, The Progressive, Colorlines, Race and Class, The Washington Post, and The Black Scholar

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Canonical title
Hitler's Black Victims: The Historical Experiences of European Blacks, Africans, and African Americans During the Nazi Era
Important events
Holocaust; World War II (1939 | 1945)

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Genres
Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
940.53History & geographyHistory of EuropeHistory of Europe1918-World War II, 1939-1945
LCC
D810 .N4 .L87History of Europe, Asia, Africa and OceaniaHistory (General)World War II (1939-1945)
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