Why Be A Victim

I tend to vent through you,and walk away.
A coward,far from it. American life sucked in the worse of ways.
My dad taught me that common sense is among the greatest things in the world.
Yet it is of the most sorely lacking in American culture.

Closure is the problem in the U.S,closure and denial.
I question why so many Jews always seem to write when you do an artical on reparations or other such matters.
Yet anytime one brings up Nelson Mandela everyone seems to shut up.

Mr. Mandela bought closure to South African apartide by demanding those that took part in crimes confess and no charges would be brought against them.
Confess to where you dumped the bodies,confess to the families that you pilaged against,CONFESS!!
He also demanded that the South African police be accountable!!

Yet in America, we celebrate the fallen and stong men and women while the culprits of the crimes are still alive and well!
Why is it that the lady that was the cause of Emitt Tills death has not been hounded and forced to tell the story.
Yet we speak of him yearly as if it has been in many generations past.
She was alive last I heard and living without questions or forced comments!
It is as if america wants her to die so they are not further ashamed by the present, not the past!
Should she have peace, would any other war criminal have peace because of age!
She like most others are the reason America is soooo far behind in reality when it comes to humanity.
Right up there with pre Mandela South Africa, which America sponsord by the way.
So why would a Jewish person watch so gaurdedly your column? I say they can't be Jews.
Jews come in all colors( Although in America we think it was just Sammy Davis) and only Hollywood could make one believe they are all white when the Pyramid Walls itself are entirely(pre Arab occupation) Black peoples.One of the first things a crazy person is asked to do is read the Picture, damn, any kid can see THAT even after 10,000 or so years of the sun!!

Nooo, no Jewish person would challenge American racism against blacks. It has to be the clan in in disguise, AGAIN!
Any person that claims to be Jewish and does such should have to prove his heritage.
Any black that allows such, should not allow themselves to be victims of psychological warfare.
As long as Blacks expect to be treated fairly by those that profit from the status quo, forget it, your asking too much.
Even the poorest of white men in America once told me that he has it all just because he is "White", in America. (I was the one bying beers mind you).so maybe he was right....*smile*

But when one decides to fight, YES, fight...Slap, whatever it takes to be heard on equal grounds...Because I think the U.S is too far gone to listen to anything other than violence against injustice. Is it a crime to fight against injustice...no.
Why not slap the cops they have felt so comfortable calling......... feel uncomfortable commiting crimes against our humanity.

Slap...why not put the fool that planted the sock(and many a more you know) in prison or take charge and Slap him down.
Why not make the government acountable for the crimes against humanity in our own country.
Or the people that profit from these crimes feel what force is like to be free when you continue to deny and disguise to further frustrate matters.

I chose to not be a victim...

One Man.

Oh my God! I had no idea. As I sat up here and read this, tears fell down my face. Thanks for posting that. I definitely want to learn more. I want to see that documentary. Everyday I am realizing as a young Black woman, there is so much about my history I don't know and need to know. For we truly do perish for lack of knowledge.

I have only one word, wow!

I'm truly stunned to learn this info. However, my knowledge, of the cruelty suffered by people of color, has been expanded. And the next things I expect to learn is there were similar people suffering with the Jews in Egypt and their exodus to the promise land. Thanks

Thanks for sharing this story. I had heard of this tragedy but had never read so much detail. I read Hans J. Massaquoi's book and learned that he had been spared most of the horrors of the war. I wish that this movie had received more publicity.

Finally, shouldn't the Black Germans be described as biracial or mulatto or Afro-German since most were of ethnic German and African ancestry? I think this is important because they were denied their German heritage. These were people of that land. Like in the U.S., the Nazis believed in the One Drop Rule--that one drop of black DNA made the whitest person black. Based on this theory, Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain would be black since her ancestor Queen Charlotte, grandmother of Queen Victoria, was mulatto.

Amazing! Having recently visited the Holocaust Museum in DC, there was some attention given to Blacks in Germany, but not in great detail. I plan to read the aforementioned text. Thanks for the post!

Mary, years ago Newsweek had an article about a interview they did with a what amounted to be a Black-German man, who lived in Hitler's Germany. He admitted he was isolated and NOT treated well....One thing bothers me. You all dwell on the past. Yet, hey folks, the Arab muslims are killing, enslaving, and abusing Black Africans by the thousands RIGHT NOW. I should say 'hundreds of thousands'. You are all blind to it. I've contributed to Joe Madison Group and Christian Solidarity International, who have done fabulous work freeing many Black Africans...I bet you all think the Arabs are your soul brothers, allies, etc. Keep thinking that--you are wrong. Facts speak louder then words.

Thank you for posting this information. Just recently I read in an excellent and highly informative book entitled, "The Africans Who Wrote The Bible - Ancient Secrets Africa and Christianity Have Never Told" by Dr. Nana Banchie Darkwah, that one of the primary reasons why Adolph Hitler sought to eliminate the Jewish population in Germany is because of their African ancestry. Specifically, the original Jews who reportedly left Egypt in the Biblical Exodus story were mostly Akan people, who now reside primarily in Ghana and other areas in West Africa.

Awesome work Mary!!!! I feear that the Jewish population would block whatever attempt there is to bring this to the big screen because as we all know they "own" the holocaust and it's all about them.

Nice tidbit of info Brad!

I knew black germans existed during the Holocaust but had never heard their story. Thanks a lot. There is a lot of vital African American history that should be shared with everyone. Example the notion that a "good" result of slavery is that it taught Christianity to blacks. I was taught that when Paul set out to teach the world about Jesus/Christianity, one of the places he went was Africa.

This is truly an amazing part of history that a lot of our people are unaware of. I work in a High School and I will surely pass this article along to the children. I must read the book!!!!! Thank you for sharing.

Even 60 plus yars later, we find out about people who were victimized and murdered by the Nazis. How anyone can continue to believe in this philosphy of destruction confounds me. The loss of innocent life, anyone's, should give us pause and should ignite our concern and action.

I had no idea. Thanks for sharing this story. My mother was in a POW camp and my husband's father was at Auschwitz as a political prisoner, but we had no inkling that there was this sizeable group of people which is generally overlooked when the word "holocaust" is mentioned. This story needs to be told.

Given Hilter's obession with racial purity, I often wonder what happen to the black colonials in Africa and the blacks who left Africa to live in the lands of the european colonizers. Now I know.

Mary, my name is Jada and I am a senior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From what I hear, you are the best person to talk to and this is the best way I found to get in contact with you. I'm writing to inform you about the racial tensions here at the U of I. On October 5, 2006 the Tri-Delta (Delta Delta Delta) Sorority and the Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity had an exchange party which was inappropraitely themed "Tequila & Tacos". (Last year we had to suffer through the "Ghetto Ball...Pimp & Ho Style" mocking African-Americans, which received little attention.)During the "Tequila & Taco" party women were inappropriately dressed as pregnant women in "wife beaters" with sombreros, while the men wore plaid shirts and suspenders pretending to be gardeners, farmers, and undocumented immigrants. Since the event took place our campus has been in an uproar. Minorities on this campus no longer want to sit and take the prejudices that we face on a daily basis. For this reason- we plan to hold a protest the week of October 30th in order to force the university to take a stronger course of action. (So far, only the Tri-Deltas have been punished: they cannot have any social events the rest of the semester- some punishment right?) As you know the University is already known for being racially tense because of the ongoing Chief Illiniwek issue. This situation is just one of many that needs to be addressed. My fellow minority classmates would greatly appreciate your response to this issue. If neccesary I can send you more information and articles that have appeared in the University's student run newspaper- the Daily Illini. I think you would be interested to learn more about this.

Thank You,

Students Offended By "Tequila & Tacos"

This is a very interesting yet sad story. My being an American although my whole bloodline is from Poland can understand how awful this all was. But I do not ever call myself a Polish American.These people were not black Germans they were Germans just as any other. A nation can never be one when so many groups segregate themselves with labels. Terrible things have happened to every race on this planet and they should never be forgotten. But there comes a time when you need to move forward and quit using the past as a crutch. Learn from others mistakes and make sure they are not repeated.Peace.

Let's not forget the French and their lack of compensation to African Colonial troops. Some of these events are captured in the film "Tableau Ferreau"(may be spelled incorrectly, sorry). Good to see Hans M. "keepin it real"

Wow, I'm truly stunned! I'm looking forward to reading the book and watching the documentary. I've also heard of other groups of people who suffered under the nazi regime and I'd like to hear their stories as well.

Jewish historian Max Dimont points this out in his book. Unfortunately, becasue they thugs also killed Jews, nothing is allowed to eclipse that holocaust.
He points out that non-jews were wiped out in higher proportions than jews: 7 to 5!
In fact, when the Nazis were defeated, enough zyklon B was found to kill 8 million. Their plans called for the extermination of 5 million a year. At best, there were only 4 million jews left

This is excellent information. I found it informative. But I have a question.

Wherever soldiers go babies follow. That is a rule of war. It is very true of Black soldiers. Recently a friend of mine who is happens to be a Chinese business man told me something much more recent and very disturbing. Since he travels extensively through Asia he has spent a lot of time in Vietnam. He told me he saw no mixed race Black-Vietnamese people. He believes they may have been marginalized and killed by the Vietnamese government. These children of Black GIs represented the soldiers of the 'losing' side and as a consequence were treated horribly after the fall of Saigon.

Can anyone reading this substantiate this story?

Yes, Tommy not only were there similar people suffering with the Jews during their Exodus from Egypt, but it is historically and geographically very likely that most if not all of the participants of the Exodus were these "similar people" (Black Isrealites). Let's remember that Egypt is in Africa and the Exodus did occur over 3,000 years ago when there was probably not much European presence on the continent. The Romans had yet to build their empire.

Instead of worrying about 6,000,000 people .....and unlike those 6 million jews who had it made because they could sue for reparations..... so what was worse in your opinion 6 million dying and reparations or 24,000 dying and no reparations? Anyone dying is terrible, these savages today in the middle east are just like the Nazi's they will kill anyone who instead of race(nazi) they use religion (islam). Every genecide in the world today involves muslims. The majority of muslim leaders in the 40's were Nazi backers and so was Saddams family. American servicemen caught especially pilots shot down were also thrown in concentration camps, and all those american troops starved by the Germans and Japanese in WW2 can't get their reparations either!

Thanks for this real history lesson. so much of our history is concoted by those who desire to hide the truth. Truth is the only thing that will set a person free.

I've been aware of the "Rhineland Bastards" for decades and have always believed there was a story waiting to be told. Though the holocaust against the Jews is well known, as are lesser known but still available histories of other ‘inferior’ people that suffered under Hitler’s “Final Solution�?, there is very little about German citizens of mixed race who were sterilized and exterminated in vast numbers. I believe holocaust studies should include all of Hitler’s victims to expose the insanity of racism and educate students that attempts to create a "Master Race" are not just wrong but wholly evil.
Also, little know is that the German army’s butchery of several thousand black POWs belonging to units drafted from France's West African colonies, but that is another story that needs to be told.

This is very interesting would love to see the movie.

This is very interesting would love to see the movie.

Thanks for proving my point. Very typical Mary very typical.

Thanks for telling us the truth about history .The white media will forever mislead and misinform the general public .I knew there were german blacks but the reality of the atrocities commited against them and their brave fight to overcome should be mandatory reading for students.The sad history of racism against blacks in the U.S is a blot on american history this is just another example of a coverup of the real history of life as a black person in the world....thanks for uncovering the "truth",ms.Mitchell ....."truth"(no pun intended)

This is news to me, like most others, but it is no surprise.
Half the Holocaust story is rarely told, because it does not serve the purposes of the Zionists.

This is why we continue to fight for equal rights and fair treatment. The laws have been established for us but the Federal Courts are anti Civil rights all the attorneys I have spoken to on this matter say the same thing. The Federal Courts are conservative and they hate Civil rights cases. What is the rule of law if the average citizen can't get to a jury of his peers to get justice where will we find help? the Courts and the Judges are the only remedy we have. So call your state Senators and tell them you want fair treatment in the Federal Courts. Force companies like Cingular/AT&T Wireless to stop discriminating and retaliating against their minority employees. Ask for the unredacted SCENDIS report we all need to see it.

A Cingular manager gave a black employee a 1.4% raise when the average was about 3%, the manager told the black employee if he told anyone about the raise he would "hang him"!!!!

Wow, I am almost ashamed to learn that I did not know this. The level to which the story of African "Black" people has not been told, or actively taught is amazing, but yet we survive, and in many areas we thrive. Thanks for the lesson.

Instead of worrying so much about Chicago, why don't you follow-up on this story......

Maywood cop shot, killed 'execution-style'
A Maywood police officer who held a part-time school security job to support his wife and five kids was shot in the head Monday night -- perhaps as many as six times -- becoming the department's first cop killed in the line of duty, officials said. Investigators were interviewing three male "persons of interest" in the shooting of 37-year-old Officer Thomas Wood.

MITCHELL COMMENT:

This is what I mean,,,,when was the last time you told a white columnist that instead of worrying about Chicago, he or she should be worried about Oakbrook, Lake Forest, Wilmette or Oak Park?

The recant of African history in Germany deserves to be heard. It is yet another demonstration of the perseverance of black people. On a global basis, blacks have been defined by non-blacks and the stories and history have been told and explained by others. This can be both good and bad, but being that negativity sells, the worse becomes the thing that most people remember and from there the momentum builds. Unfortunately, even when the ill-treatment and cruelty of those of African descent is revealed, it will not soften the heart of some who harbor resentment and hatred in their hearts for those of another ethnic group. They will work tirelessly to refute and challenge the history. These strong resentments kill any opportunity for building a healing bridge. Rather than accept the facts as presented, they will try to find a counter voice, which may be in the minority, to support their position. There is a human tendency for people to work hard to prove someone they don’t like wrong, rather than accept the fact of their own personal shortcomings.

Hi Mary, Please consider the Genocide of millions of Africans in Sudan taking place as a topic for discussion. Why is the dictator of Sudan not being pressured by the US Govenment to stop the killing of innocent people due to ethnic differences. Why is this not in the News? How come President Bush publically critized the dictator of Sudan while he was in attendance at the speeh laughing at what Bush had to say? How come the US Government is giving money to these people for information about mulism extermist and Bin Laden when Bin Laden was welcomed in that country for six years and the info we get from Sudan about Bin Laden is false. Why is it that the Iraqis citizens freedom more important than these poor innocent people being murdered daily by this brutal dictator? Please consider investigating as a topic for discussion.

The key word of your title--SURVIVORS ! The Black Germans (Newsweek interviewed one several years ago) were treated as 2nd class citizens and made to work in their factories, etc. But remember--the jews were treated alot worse--they were ordered and most were EXTERMINATED !

I am a second-generation Jewish survivor of the Holocaust. I always wondered if there were any Black Germans in Germany during WWII and what happened to them. Obviously, Blacks also did not fit Hitler's vision of the perfect blond-haired blue-eyed Aryan race. However, I do have to correct one fact in your article: Jews were also stripped of their German citizenship, and not all Jews received reparations or received insignificant sums. I believe Black survivors probably did not receive reparations because, clearly, not enough was known about them and no one advocated for their reparations. It's not too late . . .

Hello, I'm an African American living in Wiemar Germany. From my kitchen windows, I can clearly see Buchenwald Concentration Camp. I have visited it many times, and learned quite alot about what happened there. That Holocaust story is fairly well known story.

I have several AfroGerman friends here, and for the past year or so, I have been working on gathering their family stories.
If you really want a hair raising story, read about the 1904 Heroro Massacre.
It was absolutely a dry run for the Holocaust.
Everything that happened during in the Holocaust from wholesale genocide, to the Concentration Camps, to the medical experiments, happened here first.

I also suggest you look into Dr. Eugen Fischer . Truly one of the most evil bastards in human history. Not only was he an architect of the 1904 Heroro Massacre, he is the ideological grandfather of The Third Reich, and one of his 'best students' was so inspire by him, he went back home to South Africa to found the Apartheid system.

Glad the story is finally being told !!!!

I had no idea that Black people were in Germany at the time of the Holocaust. While reading the article, I became very interested in this subject and plan on reading more! I had no idea that Blacks were being persecuted in Germany. It seems that Black people could not catch a break anywhere! They suffered through hundreds of years slavery in America and now I read about the suffering that was indured there. It is definitely heart rendering to read.

Why is everyone suprised that blacks were murdered too by Hitler? He loathed every race except the white German. What I would like to bring to this discussion is where Hitler learned 1.how to commit genocide and 2.where he learned his techniques (concentration camps, etc). Hitler learned in from the Turks who killed close to 2 million Armenians in and around 1915. "Stunned?" "Wow?" "I had no idea?" Probably not, because Turkey is attempting to rewrite the Armenian Genocide of 1915 out of the world's history books. I am in no way trying to downplay the Nazi holocaust, I am just trying to bring to light the 'forgotten genocide of the 20th century.'

After all it was Hitler himself when asked how he thought he could get away with the Nazi holocaust, replied: "who today remembers the Armenians?"

My grandfather was a 'Doughboy' in World War I.

THE FIRST HOLOCAUST BY THE GERMANS WAS THE HOLOCAUST OF KONG-SAN (BUSHMAN) IN SOUTH AFRICA AND HERRERO IN NAMIBIA.

WHO INVENTED POISON GAS? DO SOME RESEARCH, YOU'LL BE SHOCKED.

Africans were in fact the first victims of the Holocaust in Germany. Most were from German colonies in Africa or African troops who occupied France after the TREATY OF VERSALLIES.

The Africans and their children by WHITE GERMAN WOMEN, were sent to concentration camps. These children we MISTAKENLY REFER TO AS 'MULTIRACIAL' AND WHO ARE PROGRAMMED TO HATE PURE BLACKS IN THE US AND SIDE WITH WHITES.

In germany, they were not accepted as 'Aryan.'

In the US, that tiny group is being fooled to think they are 'accepted' by whites, therefore they reject the fact that they are part of the Black community and are GENETICALLY BLACK DOMINANT.

Yet, when the time came to send them to concentration camps, THE GERMANS CLEARLY MADE IT CLEAR TO THE JEWS, GYPSIES, MIXED RACE AND OTHERS THEY WERE NOT 'ARYAN.'

THESE 'MULTIRACIALS' IN THE US SHOULD LEARN FROM THAT AND STOP ACCEPTING THE IDEA THAT BECAUSE THEY ARE MIXED THAT THEY ARE BETTER THAN PURE BLACKS OR THAT WHITES ACCEPT THEM AS WHITE.

Brad, for pete's sake. These 'Afro-Germans' were sent to concentration camps BECAUSE THEY WERE HALF AFRICAN, NOT BECAUSE THEY WERE HALF GERMAN.

Secondly, by genetics alone, these half/halfs, LIKE ALL MULTIRACIALS TODAY, ARE GENETICALLY BLACK/NEGRO DOMINANT, WHETHER ITS THEIR BROWN EYES, DARK HAIR AND NEGRO FEATURES, or whether it is the fact that all Europeans are of prehistoric African origins and Europeans consist of 75 percent of the African/Black Negro chromosome 'alu 7'

BLACKS ON THE OTHER HAND ARE THE WORLD'S ONLEY 'PURE' RACE.

That is because Black is original, the first. Blacks have 95-100 percent of a certain chromosome - the same one found in whites at 75 percent and in Asians at 60 percent.

Let's make it plain. Let's say the 'white' is an 'albinoid' of mutated version of proto-Africans, WHO BECAME 'PINK-WHITE' DUE TO CLIMATE. In fact that happened and there is a gene for white/pinkish skin as well.

So, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS 'MULTIRACIAL' OR 'BIRACIAL' AND WHITES AND BLACKS SHOULD NOT ACCEPT THE TRICK THAT 'MULTIRACIALS' AND 'BIRACIALS' ARE HALF/HALF.

They are not. THEY ARE AT LEAST 85 PERCENT BLACK, NEGRO.

That is one area that Europeans/whites are accurate about. In fact Black 'throwbacks' occur in whites all the time. Dina Shoe the white actress had a son who was Black, but how could that be. It is because 'white' genes are MUTATED BLACK GENES.

Sadly, these Black Germans with white German mothers thought they were 'white' and they were told they were not. SOMEONE SHOULD HAVE TOLD THEM THAT HAVING A WHITE PARENT DOES NOT MAKE ONE WHITE.

FOR EVERY 'WHITE' COLOR OR PHYSICAL FEATURE GENE THERE IS -- THERE ARE TEN TIMES MORE.

Multiracials in the US should stop trying to claim WHITE BLOOD OR ANCESTRY.

Don't wait till its too late to find out that WHITES DO NOT ACCEPT 'MULTIRACIALS' AS EITHER WHITE OR 'MULTIRACIAL' (HALF ASIAN AND HALF HISPANICS ARE 'MULTIRACIAL'S BECAUSE THEY HAVE FEATURES CLOSER TO WHITES).

Half Black and Half whites or Half Black and half anything else IS BLACK.

Mary, thanks for this information. I work in education and I know that this story is not taught in our schools. We learn about the plight of the Jewish people in the holocaust...not Black people. Wow, what a revelation!

I THINK PEOPLE SHOULD GET OVER THINGS THAT HAPPEN 50 YEARS AGO AND LIVE THERE LIFE TODAY NOT IN THE PAST.WE CANT CHANGE THE PAST SO GET OVER IT.

this is an amazing story.. but unfortunately, I am not surprised. It is sad that even with the suffering and oppression there is racism at the root! Why haven't these Blacks been recognized and honored? We spent million for reparations to the European Jews and build at multi-million dollar Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. but not one mention of these people! Now am I anti-Semetic for making this point? Or are these Jews racist for not recognizing and sharing the reparations given them, but not given to others who truely deserve it.

Cheryl, people suffer today because of the fact they have forgotten the past. You can't separate the past from the present. The present is built on the past. The future is built on what occurs today. To forget the past is to forget self. You are a product of your personal and cultural history. If we take an honest look at ourselves today (particularly our hangups and/or personal demons), we suffer because haven't looked into the source of our woes (our past) and learn how to heal from our past. I agree that we should not harp on what happened yesterday, but we should NEVER forget because what happened yesterday (slavery, holocaust, Jim Crow, lynching, etc.) can and will occur today and future, if we don't learn from the mistakes we've made in the past.

to Angela Allen: You said 'blacks can't catch a break.' Do you know what you didn't bring up? Blacks themselves have killed the most blacks. 3 1/2 million so far in this Congo Civil War going on. 1 million in Rwanda. Over hundred thousand over the years in Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Benin, and Liberia. Countless numbers in Uganda, Ethiopia, Eritea. And thousands of young blacks in America killed in urban America by other young blacks....

to Truth: The white (journalist of color, also) predominantly liberal media disinforms everybody, not just blacks. Where have you been? I'll give you an example. Read 10/31/06 Sun-Times, page 6. Read about how Rev. Meeks put on a very homophobic anti-gay and anti-abortion play. And that anybody who is gay and/or had an abortion is going to he11. Its seen as no big deal. First of all I myself am straight and pro-life. Having said that I don't think a gay person is going to see the devil. Why am I chuckling over this article? Because had a Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell put on this play we would never hear the end of it. Every woman's group, gay group, liberal journalists, etc. would have been demanding apologies from Robertson and Falwell and been labeling them fascists. And ripped into any politician who has ever been associated with these guys. But since Meeks is democrat, Jesse Jackson's friend and hand-picked successor, this will only be a one-day page 6 news. And lets not forget the annointed one, Sen. Obama, has campaigned and been at Meeks church. Nothing will be said. Yet, think of all the flak a republican politician has received for being at Falwell's church. Yes, you are right, there is a DOUBLE STANDARD (LOL).

thats right sweep all this under the carpet like the good american you say you are. i'm talking to the person that wrote about meeks. the trouble is that you want to be able to do all this underhanded dirt, and not be held accountable for what has been done. is that the way america does bussiness?

There is an excellent online research for studying the Holocaust and all
related information.
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/
H.E.A.R.T Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
Their Mission:
Today there are many resources available for those wishing to learn more of
what the world has come to know as "The Holocaust" - the planned
extermination of entire ethnic, religious, political, and other groups by
the government of a sovereign state, Germany, and her allies during the
years 1933 -1945. Memorials, museums, and sufficient books to fill entire
libraries are devoted to the subject. But the advent of the internet has
created a new, globally accessible source of information on the Holocaust.
Some of this information is valuable, often unique. Much of it, poorly
researched and sourced, is not. The hateful writings emanating from the
twisted minds of those who would deny the reality of what is irrefutable are
much worse.

-H.E.A.R.T

I dont understand why mentioning atrocities of Europeans against people of color worldwide brings the "what-about-you-guys" response. The topic is about Black victims of the holocaust not a comparative study of who suffers the most. White people hate history that makes them feel convicted/guilty. Stop feeling that way, no one is asking for it and it is useless anyhow. And if you have any access to the archives of Ms. Mitchell's commentary you will find pieces dealing with the genocide in Rwanda as well as Sudan.

Dude!! WHO CARES ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE?! ONLY 24,000? THAT'S LIKE NOTHING COMPARED TO THE SMALLES GENOCIDES THAT KILLED ABOUT 30,000!

AMAZING, JUST BREATHLESS --NEVER THOUGH OF -- VERY INTERESTING -- HISTORY THAT IS LOST AND NEEDS TO BE TAUGHT

Thank you so much for the work that you are doing. I am a senior college student at Spelman College and I would like to conduct more research on this issue. Please send me you e-mail information so that I can get into contact with you. I am interested in actually interviewing the surviving members of the Black holocaust.

I just want to say that the main killers of Blacks all over the world have not been Black people. That is a LIE, and anyone who says that obviously does not know the history of Black people all over the world (including Asia and places we don't even think Black people exist). The main killers of Blacks have been the murderers who support the system of white supremacy. I am currently studying and speaking with a student who is from a certain Black ethnic group in Malaysia. There have been so many genocides of different Black groups in those areas. Currently, the Tamil people in the Phillippines are fighting to maintain their existence. I have been in touch with a Black student who is from that area. On many times, people who say that we are the main killers of each other just use that as a scapegoat as a means to rid themselves of any guilt. During the colonialism of Africa by various European nations, there was so many killings of Blacks that were hidden, that people are just now discovering these horrific atrocities. And to R. David, I must say that that is very ignorant and racist of you to say because millions of African-descended people have been killed without mercy all over the world. For example, the Aboriginal people of Australia were almost wiped out to where they are only 1% of them, if that are left. And as far as the Black victims of the Holocaust, there is no telling of all the Blacks that were murdered that people will never hear of. People have been trying to exterminate Black people for so many years, yet we were still able to preservere. It's quite simple, when it comes to people of color, no one cares about how we have been oppressed, yet people will talk about the atrocities of the Jewish Holocaust as if it is the only one that should matter. Finally, I also want to say that European countries that colonized Africa were very influential in pitting African peoples against one another-it's just a siimple method of "divide and conquer." I just hope that one today the near extermination of the Native people of America, the millions of Africans that were murdered in the African Holocaust/slavetrade, the oppression of Japanese-Americans, and other oppressed people of color would be considered just as traumatic as the 6,000,000 Jewish people who were murdered in the Jewish Holocaust.

This many people! Wow thats very little.I'm learning about the Rwanda Genocide in school and to hear of such is amazing, but to realize that it acctually happend is CRAZY!!I can't belive this many peopl survived!(2-3 million were killed this isn't a lot out of the 30 million Leopold killed!GOD BLESS WHOM EVER SURVIVED!!!!

It's of no surprise to me that Hitler did the blacks in Germany in the way that he did. To be honest, if I was black & in Europe, Germany would be the last place I'd want to be. What I can't seem to undestand is that I one day was reading a piece about the black dictator President; Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. I look at pics of this man only to see him riding in a car with Hitler. What I would like to know, is that if Hitler hated blacks so much, why in the hell did he befriend a black President from Africa?

I apologize to do a second entry, but I have another thing to comment on. Before I speak my piece, I want to let readers, especially any whites of German descent that I'm not on here to generalize or offend anybody. I'm speaking through things I've seen with my own eyes & experienced myself. I am white & mostly of Irish descent. It's very obvious that what happened to blacks in the Holocaust did happen by seeing the racism that happens here in America. I hate to put it this way, but it's the truth. I'm not trying to say all, but most of the racism among whites toward blacks takes place most often among German Americans. I've noticed that a majority of whites who admit racism & participate in WN activities are mostly German-Americans. In America, I have to speak out on another basis which people do not often hear. Irish have also been oppressed by other white cultures, because of what happened to my ancestors in England & during slavery. I also have spoke about Irish heritage around German peoples only to get noses turned up in my face.

The German connection and racism in America is an interesting concept. Cincinnati, (where I live) is heavily populated by people who claim German descent. It is also a city greatly troubled by racism.

I have often wondered if those problems are somehow connected to German attitudes about race and racial purity.

If interested in reading about race relations in Cincinnati, visit www.wikipedia.org. Search for Cincinnati, OH. Take a look at Section 3 (Society). Click on 3.2 for information about Race Relations.

If you want to know where Hitler came to his idea of white supremacy, read "War Against The Weak" by Edwin Black. Think you're shocked now, just wait until you read this book.

Mary, this is a very interesting subject about which very little is know among Black school children and the general public. I work in higher education and am trying to put together an exhibition on this subject in 6 months time. I would very much like to know about how to find and get in touch with Black survivors of the Holocaust who can fill the gaps of history. I would like to know which concentration camps Black people were sent to? How many black survivors were there at the end of the war? I would very much like to contact you as well and appreciate if you can email me.

I thought I knew every thing on the Holocaust but i didnt know that blacks were put on trial as war criminals!! Its ashame how we get treated when we help people thats why they will ever say blacks are rasist. They never see when we are the target of racisem.

Good afternoon Mary. I am a graduate student at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey in the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Masters of Arts program (www.stockton.edu). I am currently doing research on the subject of Rhineland Blacks and I can say that most of the information that I have found has mostly come from Mr. Massaquoi and a few others. Their information has been repeated constantly over the internet and I am looking for African-German survivors to get the first hand experiences from them. I have studied many genocides in history up to the current genocide in the Sudanese region of Darfur, but the issue of the Rhineland Blacks (i.e. The Rhineland Bastards) and other Africans in Germany during WWII is still classified as unknown in most history books.

Thank you for making reference to my work on Black People in German Concentraction Camps.

Delroy Constantine-Simms

my english teacher is making me look up this stuff and i thought it would be the boringest thing i had to do and know that i have read about it now i want to learn more about it if anyone out there know send me a myspace request look me up my display name is "charlescustoms" thank for helping me out ppl gtg

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An email about Black Holocast survivors caught my interest.
As a result I found Hans Massaqoui's book and I am amazed, as a senior citizen, just how much of my history has been concealed.
I thank you for bringing this book to me.

I'm exceedingly grateful that research has been done on the "untold" story of blacks in the holocaust. This is certainly a topic that has never been discussed in any of my history courses.Mary, thank you for bringing it out into the light.
Also,I would like to thank Nubianem for getting the word out on the true ancestry of humankind.

Hello to all. I am slowly reading your replies to this article. It brings tears to my eyes to realize that I had no idea of this past; our history. I just graduated out of high school in Philly, yet throughout my whole learning experience, I haven't heard a thing about Black-Germans. Help educate me please!

I am the grandson of a holocaust survivor. For the record I am Jewish. The harsh treatment the African-Germans endured is documented. It is present at the US Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. However, in percentage terms their population was tiny compared to the Jews. There were many pockets of people doomed to destructions at the hands of the Nazis. What about Gypsies, Homosexuals, Jehovahs Witnesses.

I am an African American student at Swic. We are doing presentations in class concerning the holocast. Everyone in the class are presenting information about the jews but deep inside I wondered what happened to my own people because their are few excerpts about the African American people that I am beginning to see that the jews experience were horrifying but because African Americans were not considered apart of society then and and now maybe we were not discussed back then because what happened to us did not matter. I believe we were treated worse than the jews and sadly today we are still fighting for the same justice and respect as our ancestors in the past. The holocaust was a tragedy that I feel never should have happened. All the people who lost their lives and loved ones for predjudice of man-kind is ridiculous. Yet, African Americans still live with that same predjudice that we all weep for the jews in the Holocaust. It is amazing how far ones hate can ruin the lives of so many people but when is all that hatred going to end? I need to know more about the African Americans that died and if you can please find more information I would really appreciate it.

The past is not left in the past because the past makes and molds our future. In the past their were racist people who left that negative attitude their kids, grand-children and so on the legacy begins and now everyone hates everyone to the point where they were murdering people back then and they are murdering people until this day because of hate of ones skin color. If we as a people could have left the past in the past we would have long time ago but hate that we carry with us this day is present in the united states and other countries. We cannot ignore this problem because people are dying, promotions are being lost, people of color are being discriminated against, harassed on their jobs, not given a job, and all of this because of situations that happened in the past. I am a 24 year old African american woman who has lived this predjudice that is beginning to more publicized like it was in the past. How do I know that over time slavery will not reoccur because today I see the same ridicule like in the past. This is an issue that needs to be discussed because hate kills innocent people. The holocaust is not just a tragedy but the hate that people feel is terrifying and if we as a people are not careful it could happen again if that hate still exist; dwells today!

As a memory locked and hidden away in too many hearts to count the holocaust is an actual event held accountable by too few people to be a bother to the modern world. The word holocaust when used today is as if there were a single act of aggression committed against a single man who was publically lynched in the town square for a crime against the community of which all were certain. The word holocaust is a label intended to disguise an evil so vile that if one person honestly admits the shame of this truth it would be a horrific strike against all of human kind. The crime that prejudicially slaughtered unsuspecting millions between Kristallnacht and the dropping of the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki spurring the Japanese government’s surrender to the United States and its allies is only a symptom of the sickness that eludes man’s conscience. Throughout history, encounters between the tribes of man have so deeply planted the roots of prejudice that no one is anymore certain why race, color and creed variations are so loathsome. Each of us is a victim of our own weakness in the desire for personal pride in the pursuit of superiority, that vein of vanity that spurs competition across so many subconscious levels without concern for the loser. This need to win, the desire to be the best that may originate with hunter survival drive may be the force behind blind hate. How many of you readers have said, “I hate you?” Who has used that three word phrase that states (I hope unintentionally) your willingness to destroy another? The Aryan soul is like-minded with all of humanity to be the winner. The only difference between the Nazis of the 30’s and 40’s in their attack on non Germanics and the Hebrews who destroyed Jericho was the claim that God steered the hands that held those mystical horns and Nazi troopers of Hitler merely held machine guns. What Jewish purse held gold derived from the slave trade and what African king did his own washing? Prior to the 1500s skin color was not the basis of slavery. Slaves were those unfortunate few bought, captured in war or kidnapped. Peoples of all races snatched from their roots forced to become part of a new society. West Africa exported black slaves to traders and imported some white slaves for household service.

What I am trying to say is that hate lives within us all. We are animals caught in the struggle to survive where victory lives in the domination of others. To discern fair reparation for the myriad of victims produced by history we should each pull a U.S. dime (or the local purchase power equivalent) from our collective pocket and deposit this coin to an account evenly divided between all of the Earth’s peoples because we have all been villains, victims and heroes in life’s drama. To truly move beyond what has been and still is we must all reach out to our brothers and sisters across the globe and seek an even distribution of possibility. I believe there is no community of man that does not wish their own children well. In this common goal, we should all bond to deliver upon our children the wealth of a peaceful tomorrow.

I never thought of this until I did a search for Untold African and Black history. One of the responders say he wonders how know one could have thought this happened. It happened the same way that all of the history of Africa was wiped clean from 90% of the world. I recently learned about Turkish Nazis around the beginning of 2006 and I read that they were worse that the German Nazi. I recently heard of the Armennians. History writers is why most of the world never thought about blacks during hilter's time and many other things. Don't be shocked at what people don't know, but share what you do know.

Why isn't there more information about the blacks who served under Hitler's regime? Aren't they subject to the same laws that govern the capture and conviction of Nazi war criminals?
As an African American appalled by slavery and the holocaust, I want to know how my people may have attributed to this atrocity of war.

I think it's about time that we all take a careful look at this (www.youtube.com Blacks are indeed the true Jews of the Bible) and do some serious evaluation of ourselves. We are truly God's special people and this is what the world doesn’t want us to know. Because if we did, we may have complete and total power to defeat the enemy. But instead, because of lack of knowledge we are just defeating ourselves bottom line. Sometimes, yes, the truth hurts, but the truth has made me free and will us free and becoming freer on a daily bases. And it is very true; we do, and are perishing for lack of knowledge.
God is thee substance, nothing, or no one else, and unless we come back to Him, we will continue to be lost. God Bless You and I hope that I was able to give some insight.