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Germany is home to nearly a million Black people today, yet their history has often been erased from public memory. In this episode, we uncover the lives of Benedikt Gambé and Charlotte Rettig, two Black artists who lived in Berlin under Nazi rule. He detained and dead by 1940, she fleeing to Copenhagen and surviving. Their stories reveal how race shaped everyday life in Nazi Germany, how Black people were marginalized, and why their persecution has remained largely invisible. With Robbie Aitken and Tiffany Florvil, we explore Black presence in Germany from colonial times to the Nazi era, the cycles of forgetting that followed, and the echoes of racism and erasure in Germany today. Shownotes„The Nazi Persecution of Black People in Germany“ (https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/afro-germans-during-the-holocaust) „Stolpersteinverlegung für Schwarze Menschen in Schöneberg“ (https://www.berlin.de/ba-tempelhof-schoeneberg/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/2023/pressemitteilung.1355526.php) Black German: An Afro-German Life in the Twentieth Century by Theodor Wonja Michael „Schwarz und deutsch - Die Geschichte der Afrodeutschen“, Hessischer Rundfunk (https://youtu.be/WKDJZV10fSc) “Making Visible the Invisible: Germany's Black diaspora, 1880s–1945” by Robbie Aitken (https://www.shu.ac.uk/research/in-action/projects/being-black-in-nazi-germany) “Embracing Germany: Interwar German Society and Black Germans through the Eyes of African American Reporters” by R. Aitken (https://shura.shu.ac.uk/14021/) “Denied a Certificate of Fitness to Marry: The Nuremberg Race Laws as a Threat to Black German Futures” by Robbie Aitken (https://academic.oup.com/hgs/article-abstract/39/1/40/8002545) „Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement“ by Tiffany Florvil (https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p085413) “Black Germans and New Forms of Resistance” by Tiffany Florvil (https://www.aaihs.org/black-germans-and-wake-work/) Writing Across Differences: Afro-Germans, Gender, and Diaspora, 1970s–1990s by Tiffany Florvil (https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/1457/) Deutsche Afrika-Schau context (https://blackcentraleurope.com/quellen/1914-1945-deutsch/die-deutsche-afrika-schau-1934-1940/) „Black and German - The Afrodeutsch Story“, DW (https://www.dw.com/en/black-and-german-the-afrodeutsch-story/a-64272967) „Schwarze Menschen sind immer noch unsichtbar“, TAZ (https://taz.de/Schwarze-Menschen-sind-immer-noch-unsichtbar/!5373455/) Antidiskriminierungsstelle des Bundes, Jahresbericht 2024 (https://www.antidiskriminierungsstelle.de/SharedDocs/downloads/DE/publikationen/Jahresberichte/2024.pdf) „Being Black in the EU“ (https://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra_uploads/fra-2023-being-black_in_the_eu_en.pdf) „Racist Realities - How does Germany deal with racism?“ (https://www.rassismusmonitor.de/en/publications/racist-realities-how-does-germany-deal-with-racism/) CERD, Concluding observations on the combined twenty-third to twenty-sixth reports of Germany (https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/concluding-observations/cerdcdeuco23-26-concluding-observations-combined-twenty-third) Remapping Black Germany: New Perspectives on Afro-German History, Politics, and Culture by Sara Lennox Schwarze Deutsche: Der Diskurs um" Rasse" und nationale Identität 1890-1933 by Fatima El-Tayeb (https://www.academia.edu/16385211/Schwarze_Deutsche_Der_Diskurs_um_Rasse_und_nationale_Identität_1890_1933) Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and Momory in the Third Reich by Tina Campt (https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.17684) „Blacks under the Swastika: A research note“ by Robert W. Kestling (https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2307/2668561)
In den Jahren vor der Machtergreifung der Nazis führte in Berlin ein Kameruner Kommunist den Kampf für die Rechte der Schwarzen an. Joseph Ekwe Bilé war einer der schärfsten Kritiker des deutschen Imperialismus und Rassismus – nur kennt ihn heute niemand. Artikel vom 26. Dezember 2020: https://jacobin.de/artikel/berlins-schwarzer-kommunist-joseph-bile Seit 2011 veröffentlicht JACOBIN täglich Kommentare und Analysen zu Politik und Gesellschaft, seit 2020 auch in deutscher Sprache. Ab sofort gibt es die besten Beiträge als Audioformat zum Nachhören. Nur dank der Unterstützung von Magazin-Abonnentinnen und Abonnenten können wir unsere Arbeit machen, mehr Menschen erreichen und kostenlose Audio-Inhalte wie diesen produzieren. Und wenn Du schon ein Abo hast und mehr tun möchtest, kannst Du gerne auch etwas regelmäßig an uns spenden via www.jacobin.de/podcast. Zu unseren anderen Kanälen: Instagram: www.instagram.com/jacobinmag_de X: www.twitter.com/jacobinmag_de YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/JacobinMagazin Webseite: www.jacobin.de
Die fünfzehnte Folge von «Rosalux History» befasst sich mit der Geschichte der Kommunistischen Internationale (1919-1943). Anika Taschke und Albert Scharenberg sprechen mit Prof. Alexander Vatlin (Lomonossow-Universität Moskau) über die Frühzeit der „Weltpartei“, mit Prof. Brigitte Studer (Universität Bern) über „Reisende der Weltrevolution“ und mit Andreas Bohne (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung) über den Antikolonialismus der Komintern. Mit dabei sind auch Naciye Suman, Willi Münzenberg, Joseph Bilé, Tina Modotti und Magnus Hirschfeld. Links: [Rosalux History auf Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/rosalux_history/?hl=de) [Robbie Aitken über Joseph Bilé](https://www.rosalux.de/publikation/id/40552) [Matt Swagler über Panafrikanismus und Antikolonialismus der Komintern ](https://www.rosalux.de/publikation/id/40161) [Anna Belogurova über die Nanyang-Revolution](https://www.rosalux.de/publikation/id/40364) [Sana Tannoury-Karam über die Komintern in der Levante](https://www.rosalux.de/publikation/id/40817) [Dainis Karepovs über die Komintern in Brasilien](https://www.rosalux.de/publikation/id/40319)
“There were black Germans?” My students are always surprised to learn that there were and are a community of African immigrants and Afro-Germans that dates back to the nineteenth century (and sometimes earlier), and that this community has at times had an influence on German culture, society, and racial thinking that belied its small size. Germany's role in colonizing Africa has received increased attention lately, with an exhibit on German colonialism appearing at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in October and recent headway on a deal for Germany to pay reparations to the descendants of Herero and Nama genocide victims in Namibia. In Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Disapora Community, 1884-1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Eve Rosenhaft and Robbie Aitken supply a part of the colonial story that gets even less attention than that of Germans in Africa: what about Africans in Germany? Focusing primarily on a community of West-African-born black Germans and their families, Rosenhaft and Aitken trace the groups evolution in the nineteenth century through its persecutions by the Nazi state and postwar existence.
“There were black Germans?” My students are always surprised to learn that there were and are a community of African immigrants and Afro-Germans that dates back to the nineteenth century (and sometimes earlier), and that this community has at times had an influence on German culture, society, and racial thinking that belied its small size. Germany’s role in colonizing Africa has received increased attention lately, with an exhibit on German colonialism appearing at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in October and recent headway on a deal for Germany to pay reparations to the descendants of Herero and Nama genocide victims in Namibia. In Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Disapora Community, 1884-1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Eve Rosenhaft and Robbie Aitken supply a part of the colonial story that gets even less attention than that of Germans in Africa: what about Africans in Germany? Focusing primarily on a community of West-African-born black Germans and their families, Rosenhaft and Aitken trace the groups evolution in the nineteenth century through its persecutions by the Nazi state and postwar existence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“There were black Germans?” My students are always surprised to learn that there were and are a community of African immigrants and Afro-Germans that dates back to the nineteenth century (and sometimes earlier), and that this community has at times had an influence on German culture, society, and racial thinking that belied its small size. Germany’s role in colonizing Africa has received increased attention lately, with an exhibit on German colonialism appearing at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in October and recent headway on a deal for Germany to pay reparations to the descendants of Herero and Nama genocide victims in Namibia. In Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Disapora Community, 1884-1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Eve Rosenhaft and Robbie Aitken supply a part of the colonial story that gets even less attention than that of Germans in Africa: what about Africans in Germany? Focusing primarily on a community of West-African-born black Germans and their families, Rosenhaft and Aitken trace the groups evolution in the nineteenth century through its persecutions by the Nazi state and postwar existence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“There were black Germans?” My students are always surprised to learn that there were and are a community of African immigrants and Afro-Germans that dates back to the nineteenth century (and sometimes earlier), and that this community has at times had an influence on German culture, society, and racial thinking that belied its small size. Germany’s role in colonizing Africa has received increased attention lately, with an exhibit on German colonialism appearing at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in October and recent headway on a deal for Germany to pay reparations to the descendants of Herero and Nama genocide victims in Namibia. In Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Disapora Community, 1884-1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Eve Rosenhaft and Robbie Aitken supply a part of the colonial story that gets even less attention than that of Germans in Africa: what about Africans in Germany? Focusing primarily on a community of West-African-born black Germans and their families, Rosenhaft and Aitken trace the groups evolution in the nineteenth century through its persecutions by the Nazi state and postwar existence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“There were black Germans?” My students are always surprised to learn that there were and are a community of African immigrants and Afro-Germans that dates back to the nineteenth century (and sometimes earlier), and that this community has at times had an influence on German culture, society, and racial thinking that belied its small size. Germany’s role in colonizing Africa has received increased attention lately, with an exhibit on German colonialism appearing at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in October and recent headway on a deal for Germany to pay reparations to the descendants of Herero and Nama genocide victims in Namibia. In Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Disapora Community, 1884-1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Eve Rosenhaft and Robbie Aitken supply a part of the colonial story that gets even less attention than that of Germans in Africa: what about Africans in Germany? Focusing primarily on a community of West-African-born black Germans and their families, Rosenhaft and Aitken trace the groups evolution in the nineteenth century through its persecutions by the Nazi state and postwar existence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“There were black Germans?” My students are always surprised to learn that there were and are a community of African immigrants and Afro-Germans that dates back to the nineteenth century (and sometimes earlier), and that this community has at times had an influence on German culture, society, and racial thinking that belied its small size. Germany’s role in colonizing Africa has received increased attention lately, with an exhibit on German colonialism appearing at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in October and recent headway on a deal for Germany to pay reparations to the descendants of Herero and Nama genocide victims in Namibia. In Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Disapora Community, 1884-1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Eve Rosenhaft and Robbie Aitken supply a part of the colonial story that gets even less attention than that of Germans in Africa: what about Africans in Germany? Focusing primarily on a community of West-African-born black Germans and their families, Rosenhaft and Aitken trace the groups evolution in the nineteenth century through its persecutions by the Nazi state and postwar existence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“There were black Germans?” My students are always surprised to learn that there were and are a community of African immigrants and Afro-Germans that dates back to the nineteenth century (and sometimes earlier), and that this community has at times had an influence on German culture, society, and racial thinking that belied its small size. Germany's role in colonizing Africa has received increased attention lately, with an exhibit on German colonialism appearing at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in October and recent headway on a deal for Germany to pay reparations to the descendants of Herero and Nama genocide victims in Namibia. In Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Disapora Community, 1884-1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Eve Rosenhaft and Robbie Aitken supply a part of the colonial story that gets even less attention than that of Germans in Africa: what about Africans in Germany? Focusing primarily on a community of West-African-born black Germans and their families, Rosenhaft and Aitken trace the groups evolution in the nineteenth century through its persecutions by the Nazi state and postwar existence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies
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