Is there any documentaion that there were ever any blacks or arabs in units of the germany army back in WW2?
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blacks and arabs in the german army
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I hate to burst your bubble, but Bosnians and Albanians are neither black nor Arab.
however, politically speaking, many Arabs were pro-Germany primarily because the Nazi's represented a threat to Britain and France's colonial holdings in the Middle East.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husayni
however, politically speaking, many Arabs were pro-Germany primarily because the Nazi's represented a threat to Britain and France's colonial holdings in the Middle East.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husayni
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And there were ddefinitely no black people in the Wehrmacht. I heard this story once about a black African who fought for the German colonies in WWI, he also earned a medal and married a German. But the Nazi didn't find "interracial" marriage funny so he was dumped into a KZ. Can't remember his name though ...
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There were black people in the wehrmacht (generally it was metis), the most famous are certainly the sons of Sabac el Cher.
There were black soldier in foreign troops also (like lvf)
There were black soldier in foreign troops also (like lvf)
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So I googled Sabac el Cher and it came up with this quite interessting article
http://international.africancolours.net/content/15498
http://international.africancolours.net/content/15498
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There was of course the Herero Schwarzkommando, who worked in the V1 rocket factory and was originally thought to be fictional, but later turned out to be fact, if you follow Thomas Pynchon...
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I believe the first pic shows an Italian soldier. I've seen many photos of black soldiers saluting with their hand up (Nazi salute, you know) but they were all in Italian forces.
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There were definitely some Indians who fought for the germans. And some asians captured on the Eastern front.
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Wouldnt having blacks in there forces go against all there political ideas?? If they did allow it the black soldiers would basicly be fighting for there own distruction rather they new it or not.
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You do realize that even, for instance, the Confederacy had free blacks volunteering to fight in their army, right?
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Yes i know this but the Nazi political idea was far more radical. The South as far as i know was not carrying out a genocide against blacks. Many blacks felt just as threatened that there way of life was coming to a close as whites did. Im not arguing that some blacks wouldnt have wanted to fight for Germany but that Hitler wouldnt have allowed it. Robet E Lee and many other High ranking Generals allowed blacks to fight because they viewed them a equalls. Robert E Lee stated himself that he was against slavery and secession but could not bear to lead a army against his own people. Hitler lead with hate and i dont think the very people he sought to destroy would be allowed to serve.
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Well, thats a muddy issue really, technically, the Nazi's where not offended by the existance of other races, aslong as races where never mixed, so on the books, its was ok that there where black people and asian people, aslong as they stayed in their own countries (and didn't have any offending political or relegious views the nazi's didn't like, or, you know, just plain got in their way), but Jews and Gypsies where ofcourse the scum of the earth and had to be destroyed.
So technically, Nazism can also be practiced by black, asian, arab people, whatever.
But in reallity, had Nazi Germany won the war, would they really have been contempt letting "others" have precious "Lebensraum"? or would they have gone for total world domination for the "Aryan master race" some time down the line? i'd think the latter.. they where just generally douchebags like that.
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Was there any Oriental's in the German forces?, I remember seeing photos of the Chinese Nationalist Republic wearing German type helmets etc but thats just about it.
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There were Mongolian-russian captives who were forced into fighting for the Nazi's on the western front!
Poor buggers
Poor buggers
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i saw a film last month where they interviewed cossacks from russia
they helped the germans with cavalry, and played music for the german soldiers
they helped the germans with cavalry, and played music for the german soldiers
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i seen a documentary with Leni Riefenstahl and Hitler wanted to help African tribes
he said they must be Preserved this is true
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