Nazi prejudice and propaganda - the racist crimes against the "children of shame" | DW Documentary
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- After World War I, relationships between French occupation troops and German women were banned. But they happened anyway, and liaisons involving black soldiers produced a number of mixed-race children. Many were later persecuted by the Nazis.
Around 100,000 French troops were sent to occupy Germany's Rhineland region in 1920. About 20,000 of these soldiers came from the French colonies of Tunisia, Morocco, French Indochina, and Senegal.
The African troops became targets of a harassment campaign called "Die Schwarze Schmach," or "The Black Disgrace." German political parties, the media, and many organizations tried to discredit French occupation policies by falsely claiming that black French soldiers were systematically raping German women and children. The presence of black, North African, and Asian troops in Germany was depicted as a threat to the "German race" and the future of European civilization.
Between 1919 and 1928, several hundred mixed-race children were born in Germany's Rhineland region -- the product of liaisons between local women and French occupation troops. These children, their mothers, and extended families were socially ostracized from the very beginning.
In the 1930s, these children became victims of racist Nazi policies. In 1937, Adolf Hitler secretly ordered hundreds of them to be forcibly sterilized. A special unit of the Gestapo was set up to carry out this task.
This documentary, directed by Dominik Wessely, tells the story of a forgotten crime. It also explains how propaganda and toxic "fake news" reports can create an environment in which horrific crimes can be committed.
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Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it!
Exactly 🗣️
You mean now
@Chris Carrasquilla Socialists! THE GERMAN NATIONAL SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY. Note the word Socialist -AKA Nazis like antifa & blm.
@Chris Carrasquilla I don't support Trump but Dems are doing equally shitty things.. they are manipulating the capitol hill riots to now censor all conservatives and silence them. First thing the Nazis did to Jews was censor them because they were a so-called "threat"
@B Job You missed the point only because you obviously don't like them, so it makes it okay in your head. It shouldn't be a matter of political preference but it is. Sad...
Those who think discrimination will end because society achieved some sort of 'enlightenment' in recent decades is naive and foolish
Everyday we have to go forward 4 steps as we loose 3 steps in the night anyway ... lets go !!!
Truth! I am 1/2 Native American. I traveled to South Dakota to do some genealogy research. The reactions of people when they found out what I was doing was very sad. The disparaging remarks about Native Americans in 2020 were very sad.
Racism is intrinsic. It is human nature. I think it will always plague society.
@@JohnSmith-hs1hn It comes in our bones. We must reckon it. Oppose it.
well said
The story of little Willi Barth broke my heart. We must protect the most vulnerable of every society. I cried when they killed him, after he was so excited about being "accepted" into the military. Absolutely disgusting monsters we have on this planet amongst us even today. Do not be silent. Stand up for the most vulnerable among us.
We need The Kingdom!
Never heard of this guy tell more
@@alex_6911 lmao. kid
@@alex_6911 maybe if you don't have reasoning capabilities like humans do. 🤨 No excuses.
@@barbarabobbyscott1560 The Most Holy Immaculate Heart of Mary
The thing that I appreciate about the Germans is that they confront their history...they don't play with it or run from it!!
They had little choice and that turned out to be a blessing since it allowed them to put that past where it belonged and imagine achieving a different future.
I wish that somethings similar could have been achieved after the abolition of slavery in the US where I live. We would have had a chance to truly end the evil of slavery instead of finding new ways to drag it on.
Human nature is to beware of strangers. We are hard wired to be tribal. Forcing ppl to integrate (assimilate) led to children being born into a life of non belonging before the German culture could evolve.
Some of the WWII allies propaganda is still being utilized. YT channel "British pathe" has film of Dachau concentration camp being liberated & the film is blatant PR spin.
*All warrers were guilty but victors get to write history.*
WWII was fought so Britain could gift Palestine to the zionists imo.
japan is the opposite
@@user-qwertyuiopasdfghj The exact opposite. Then the government gets confused on why there’s still hostility from some other countries near them.
It only seems that way on the face of it. I lived in Germany as a child, and though they have laws against many things that even hint to Nazism, the reasons behind all these laws and posturing are never discussed. One of my clearest memories was spotting what I later learned was an Auschwitz tattoo on my favorite teacher; she caught my look and hid her arm in embarrassment. This was not an isolated thing; if I hadn't had parents so interested in our education, I could have easily left the country I lived in from 88-92 knowing nothing about the Holocaust.
Take a moment to appreciate that a German media company has made this documentary. Not all people are bad and it takes a lot of courage to call out your own past mistakes. Respect to DW for what you're doing, I love all your documentaries.
So you're telling me just forget about everything because not all people are bad
@@latoshastanfield5523 I started my comment with "Take a moment to appreciate"...no where do I say "forget about everything". Ask yourself that question, don't ask me... I didn't tell you anything of the sort, you did it to yourself.
LaTosha Stanfield, lol, good try.
No never forget. But remember all who lost their lives to make changes. The ones who hid slaves in their homes, who helped get the folks to freedom. Don't destroy history. Don't tear statues down. Don't burn up cities. Learn from history! Stop hating people today who done nothing but try to make things right.
folks to freedon
germany attacked iraq. so what is the point of making these videos. during the iraq war, planes from the rammstein military compound flew to iraq to bomb the cities and people. today germany is allied with france which exploits african countries. europe is the richest continetn in the world yet they let people rather drown in the mideterranian then give them shelter.
@@tengrici431
That's why it's full of refugee in Europe,right?
What the hell are you talking about?
What’s so sad is horrible things like this are still going on around the world and it’s 2021.
Look at China. And nobody cares about it.
it will continue as long as people are around..
I'm so sick of people thinking the year has anything to do with anything
@@tanyadebeer4836 this film is proof that we can hope, some others don t evolve as quickly... one day, maybe very far, we will be one race one language, it s the future.
@@cyberfrank-bx2nv Maybe there will be one species of plant, one type of food, and one giant corporation that sells everything to everyone.
I'm from Euskirchen, the town that came up a couple of times in this doku. I once had a project in school where we would go to the city archives of some towns in the area to collect information about people that got euthanized and sterilised during the nazi regime. Some People with disabilities often just physically, got deported to special hospitals and horribly experimented on. Often just children. We collected there stories and told them on an memorial event. Only if we stop telling these stories their murder truly wiped them out and the nazis won.
Were they turned into soap too?
@@xxch1coriaxx no collectable lampshades
St Ber.. Wonderful comment. If only all Education systems would educate all students with similar historical facts the world would truly be a better place.
Ignorance is what is holding the human race back. There is still hope, for those who are willing to learn.
So bad. Here. So bad
Euskirchen got floods a few years ago
Those who think racism will end because humanity achieved some sort of 'enlightenment' in recent decades is naive and foolish
YES!
It's in human nature
There is so much to learn that's hidden away.
Indeed
Unless those days were cut short ,no flesh would be saved ,Matthew ch 24.amein.
@@markdemell3717 uhp ooh p
@@waterfull2907 huhhh
@@markdemell3717 hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I’ve been aware of DW for a long time, but only recently appreciated the level of work and types of information they impart to the public. They’ve really set themselves apart from other news organizations. I’m constantly impressed with their documentaries.
They have made many good documentary at this short time.
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C-light it's good to watch... still have to have the insight to see where the modern weak german views tries to brainwash you into losing yourself...
they always has an agenda, that's normally very "Biden" like, if I may say ccp so haha
Dw TV documentary is about letting the people know that they are repeating the same thing today
If you understand French, watch Arte. Many DW news documentaries are from there.
DW and BBC are trustworthy medias
This is so wrong and sad how we as human beings treated each other. Thank you for telling this history.
@Consigliere ?
@Consigliere Apparently, you left your conscience somewhere. Perhaps you should go look for it.
@@victorialadybug1 He's right. is there something wrong with being against an occupying force breeding with your nations women?
Stop saying we you mean you white peoples
Welcome to my world
I have learnt so much about the Nazis that I didn't know before. The same thing happened in Sweden and Norway with the women who had children with the Germany soldiers; the children became "personas non grata". My German grandmother, who fled to Sweden when my father was about to be drafted to Hitler Jugend, lived a lonely life here in Sweden as a German. My problem is that I cry all the time as I watch. Thank you very much.
My son is half black, I gave him a live against the wishes of my family. He was only child in 120 000 people in my city in Russian. We got insulted were he was innocent child. It was 2004-2010, now we’re in Canada. But I still worried about his future - racism is still exist.
@nizam88 left her alone. GUARANTEED
@@holdencawffle626 wow, talk about making assumptions
@nizam88 Hi left us in Russia, but he helped us. I’m married to Russian immigrant in 2009 and we came in Canada 2010. Live is fool of surprises, now my son’s father live in same city with us, he see his son and we still friends.
@nizam88 Fortunately in our culture get a child out of marriage is acceptable, like in Western countries.
@nizam88 the level of your ignorance is just amazing. 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏿♀️
I am a US Citizen, and I must say DW's work is required watching for Americans. I am in awe of DW's brave and sefl-examitive work. It is rare that America will do the same today.
Lol
DW is infested with leftist claptrap.
@OM Almighty So what is your view?
start by not calling yourself American or refer to the USA as America. It sounds very entitled, there are many other countries in the American continent.
@@marcososa1986 No offense intended. My wife is Bolivian and I lived there in the Altiplano Paceno for 7 years before living in Arequipa, Peru for another 8 years.
I was born in Germany (between Düsseldorf and Cologne). I finished school this year and had history class every week where we discussed almost every little detail from the 13th century until the 1980’s. I never got taught about this. It is a shame. Unbelievable and disgusting how the authorities acted. I was never aware how racist Germany was (even before the Holocaust). Teacher need to teach more about those horrific actions to educate kids and prevent further racism. Thank you for this documentary. I am absolutely heart broken.
Es betrifft leider nicht nur den Nationalsozialismus aber auch andere Geschichtsrelevante Themen, werden teilweise verschwiegen oder nur leicht überflogen und angedeutet. Das beobachtet man auch in anderen Fächern. Wir AK: 2016, hatten noch Schulbücher aus den 80gern Jahren! Vorallem ist es auch erschreckend festzustellen, das sich bis heute nichts an den Lernplänen verändert hat.
@@mollysmeow3455 hi. Jews always keep themselves separate. Jews from the middle east are dark and called Sephardic. European Jews were converts (approx 1500's) in Khazaria.
Murano Jews were given a choice to convert to Christianity or be deported; the ones who pretended to convert so they could stay in Spain are called conversos.
OK. Today in 🇺🇸 Jews count themselves separate and not white.
For further study look up the Ernst Zundel trial in Canada. Mr Zundel was accused of antisemitism for publishing a pamphlet called *"Did 6 million really Die?"*
Look up his esteemed attorney Doug Christie too - a free speech champion.
Best wishes & much love to Canadian truckers 💉🩸😡🥀🌞😊🤏🍿🤏🫖
Me being Polish, I can tell you more the number of Polish children stolen from Polish families for Germanization is around 50. Thousands not 20 as DW is telling that is according British historians. Thanks to my father bavery he being small boy escape from German family and went back to Poland to his parents, if not for his action I probably will speak German and living in luxury not knowing my past... how many never will find out about their Polish heritage, how many???
@@KateBates22zabu what are you trying to say?
Do you say the Holocaust did not happen?
Have you ever been to Germany or talked to a person who lived through those times?
@@rolux4853 I never mentioned the holocaust
God, these poor children...Willi, and the young girl who dreamed of being a mother..Sixteen years old..barely even adults. Some of them probably didn't even know why this was happening.
They may have left behind no physical proof, but at least the memories can still be told, their stories shared by those who knew them best and closest. They did leave something behind.
I dont agree with the french historian when he says that before WW I french army's non-european soldiers never fought in Europe, there were black soldiers and "mameluks" from Egypt in Napoleon's Great Army, and many algerian soldiers fought, during the second Empire, in Crimea'war, in Italy, and in France during the Franco-German war in 1870-1871.
On point!
Yeah but they were a really tiny minority when you compare the high numbers that were used in both World Wars.
They were extremely small minority and Egyptians aren’t black they’re amaeigh
@@henny6365 Egybtians aren't amazigh, nevertheless they are related
The black Egybtians were mostly imported slaves and nubians.
So berbers are now trying to appropriate Egybtian history?
@@sabrina1380m berbers are amazigh it’s literally Another term to describe amazigh💀💀💀LMFAOOOO amazigh are the indigenous people of North Africa . Egypt is a North African country 💀what on are you talking about
The world is hell...
What a bloody history
Yeah sir... All cultures have blood on their hands... at the end humans are the same.
If only it is history though..the same thing is happening, however in the far east :(
The world is amazing. Just the fact that this documentary was made and is still on youtube and can be seen for free proves we have advanced. Stop whining
@Siegbert Landgraf you honestly think only white people are racists??? Funny as f***. I live in New York city and have heard African Americans and Latinos treat Asians and Middle Eastern people like servants. In a discount store, Dunkin Donuts, etc. The most blatant form.of racism and hypocrisy ever . Puhleeeeeze save your sanctimonious hot air
The world? Or human beings?
This is a very important documentary that needs to be seen by masses. It’s what’s happening today in the West. Thanks to DW for making this!
What s happening today in the west ?🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
@@chachichachi3557 same old story, but in a different way!
@@asiedu2869 no
@@chachichachi3557 WHAT'S NO...!🙄
Where in the west is this happening?
If you mean the north west of China, you’re right!
If it’s about any developed country of the west please educate me about it!
I wish they had been able to interview a person who actually was mixed race, but probably very people if any are alive and want to talk about it, perhaps fearful or ashamed or just too old or physically or mentally unable. Very interesting documentary.
I can’t believe everything I saw and heard in this video. I myself am half Greek and half Ukrainian and had friends of all different colors and races. I had this cold shiver run down my spine watching this. Don’t we all bleed red when we get cut or injured? Isn’t just being healthy the most important thing in this world? When I was little a black boy saved me from a bad beating by some punks and after that we became great friends me and him. That’s disgusting that we are governed and educated by people who hold these sick views. As Bruce Lee once said we are all one big family under the sky and stars. Holy shit man, I did not really know there were people view such views existing in this world and of higher education and such until I really started to explore the internet, which is really eye opening. Live and let live man, for Christ sake.
You are a good person 👍
Yes, this is how the world works and there is no point being ignorant of the truth. Educate yourself and advocate for something better, don’t just sit around unaware and unbelieving.
Mixed raced people should have the right to like in a mixed race county like brazil.
@@ICHICH63 You can't coerce them to live anywhere just because that's what you want.
@@ICHICH63 first of all, of course everyone should be free to go and live wherever they want. But like in the cases shown in the video, those were these kid's homes. They had family and friends there, spoke the language and just wanted to be included. They should be able to feel accepted in their home countries.
Secondly, not everything would be perfect if they went to a mixed country. In Brazil and other places in Latin America, the high percentage of people with mixed heritage also came about because the colonial authorities literally encouraged "breeding out the blackness/ indigenous/...". Idk about Brazil I particular but "mejorar la raza" still is a commonly heard "joke" harking back to this practice. It means to "improve the bloodline" and especially older/conservative people like to make this "joke" when someone with deeper skin colour is dating someone with lighter skin (= presumably more white heritage). This shit is still very much present in many people's heads, even in these mixed countries.
Thank you for this documentary. Canadian schools would not share this, history is very watered down, but you did and I appreciate that.
Did you hear recently that Republicans in US Senate are trying pass laws that restrict teaching about Slavery in America. They think erase these deeds by erasing teaching. How stupid because these deeds are written on Souls of African Americans.
I'm fed up with Republicans. The democrats in Washington are fucked right now but ill fake a Democrat over a republican anyway. Republicans don't get it they think militarized police is a good thing and all cops are angels
Take *
@@paulhunter1525 No on now living is responsible for the past, and people in the US don't know any history let alone the intricacies of black people's suffering.
Maybe you just weren’t paying attention or your province has a terrible education system. But I’ve learned about the Canadian atrocities and other countries atrocities in school, in detail.
I was physically sick when I saw that the regime was taking photos of those innocent children and breaking them down into pieces and parts to quantify/qualify humanity. Then sterilization of any being. Lord save us from such ideas.
We mixed kids were persecuted in the USA in the 70s and 80s as-it-is!
Watching this just breaks my heart.
So weird to be a tiny child and blamed for your very existence. Blamed by “rational“ adults. May God forgive them.
Everybody is mixed. If we weren't we'd all be like the Spanish king Charles II.
So true. Everyone may be somewhat mixed, but those that look white in our country have always been treated much better.
@@susiepittman601 because this country’s belongs to us white people. All others are only guests!
and this kind of people make 100% of the US congress , the descendants of the racists, still racists themselves....
@@carmelmulroy6459No need to be intentionally obtuse. Obviously we're all mixed if you go back far enough, but that's clearly not what OP meant.
Race is a social construct, but social constructs influence almost every facet of human life; Including racial actions. Otherwise, Nazi Germany wouldn't have been a thing and nothing in this entire documentary would have happened.
All around the world..same old song..
Uncle Vince, all over europe. not all round the world
@@PHlophe clearly have never heard of mongolia or cameroon
Unless those days were cut short ,no flesh would be saved .Matthew ch 24 ,Halleluyah,amein.
@@jasonlind3065 i did not but then i asked a friend from the western side of cameoon. the french napalmed a whole region over there.
i can point to many more happening during that time period inside the african continent.
Rulya, do I ? hunnie , it gets tiresome when you are presented with facts
Although I studied history for my GCSE and I have a particular interest in Nazi Deutschland, I never know about the children of shame. Thank you for such an insightful documentary. I hope for more reporting of valuable history like this.
You Brits got more blood on your hands than the Nazi
Irish famine Bengal famine or more like food expropriate by gun point
@@robertmitchell8630 Whataboutism at its finest. Nazi.
@@robertmitchell8630 every country had blood on it's hand.
@Scott Levy
First year uni my German american buddies and me planted our foot up some Anglo saxon boys arse
I used to think religion was the greatest human fault until I educated myself about nationalism.
Edit: corrected learned to educated myself on/about
You know sometimes it always amazes me how deprived and hateful our species can be sometimes. 😔
Not me.
I myself am a British descent of Myanmar.....I found out that the concepts of racism and racial purity are still holding by some ultranationalists in some countries...like the Burmese ultranationalists in Myanmar.....Though their ideas are not extreme like Nazi's...it is still racist....If I have a chance, I would like to question those who are racists coz I strongly believe that nobody has racial purity as we humans are more or less mixed at one point of our bloodline.... :(
Actually, this is what you get when you are in contact with Mlechas. You ancestors should have to stick to their own clan but I understand, things have changed.
Thank you for this Documentary. I have never heared of these "children of shame" in school in Hessia, Germany and I think this is something that should be talked about more.
It was pushed by british but mostly amerucan propaganda. Ray Beveridge etc
I'm mixed race so this documentary hit home. I can only imagine what would've happened to me had I grown up during that era and country? Instead I am safe, free and able to marry and reproduce. Seems unfair that I get to have all of these things when people who were just like me, were denied them because they were a wrong unaccepted race. RIP to those who died. I promise to live my life to the fullest and embrace my blessings. One day I will met you all on the other side and say thank you. It is because of what you went through that mixed race folks like me, live happily now. Life isn't perfect or fair still to us, but we are at least free to be ourselves.
@@quickclipsart1028 you are unbelievably ridiculous and ignorant and arrogant to write something like this.
Maybe your parents should have taken your opinion and view, and not had you.
I'm seriously mortified by this documentary.. I am somewhat obsessed with learning pretty much anything having to do with both WW1 and WW11, but mostly the disgusting atrocities that happened during the holocaust and anything surrounding it..
I feel disgusted for the needless suffering and mass genocide that took place..
I HATE that our youth don't even know what the wars were about, only that "lots of people died, and it was bad".. if I can just educate one person, and get through to them, And enlighten them.. then I will be able to die happy knowing that I stopped a racists ignorance
😿😘👍🏿👍🏼👍👍🏾😇
@@quickclipsart1028 eren jeager.... Is tha u?
@@bellwilson5438 grown up ppl who have brains decided to go and kill each other... For me when i look at all the wars and the latest conflict... You cant blame the youth for the madmen that decided to kill each other for bragging rights if i may put it that way
I’m Portuguese, Filipino, Hawaiian and German descent, I know good and well I would be one of them if I was born in that time. My Great Grandpa, a US soldier and a Hawaiian Boy station in Germany few months after the surrender in 1945, met my German Great grandma and took her back to Hawaii. They lived a happy 58 years of marriage. With lots of grandkids and great grand kids.
You have evolved into a enlightened human, unfortunately it took many generations to get there, hopefully your life is great now thanks to the open hearts of your forefathers
Thank you for this wonderful and an informative documentary 🙏 Great work by the Director and DW. I look forward to every one of DW docs/news reports 😊 I love the way you bring so much of human experience/stories to each of the political/social/cultural issues😊❤️
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment!
Even when discussing the Holocaust, there's racism within that, because this particular part is indeed part of the Holocaust, but this is something that has long been ignored, especially in schools in America.
That would be stealing the spotlight
I didn't know
@@megancrager4397 a lot of people don't know. That's my point
The racism was against Slavs, 15 million soviet civilians and 6 million poles were killed because slavs were viewed as inferior yet you don’t hear much about this
Many genocides with even higher death tolls are ignored in schools. The holocaust is the most well known.
That was an amazing evil strategy on the french part... they played it efficiently.. having colonials fight french wars... and leading the outcomes
the same could be said for the british americans and the germans too who used colonials but fortunately lost the war
@@pinkpolka4229 The only people I can think of that fought for the Americans are the Filipinos and they were actually fighting a guerrilla war to win back their freedom from the Japanese. The Philippines was not a colony in the sense of British and French colonialism. The US granted the Philippines independence in 1946. Britain's grants of independence were hard wrought and only because it no longer could afford the troops it took to keep it's colonies. France was still fighting civil wars with its colonies until the 1950s. France doesn't actually free its colonies but keeps them bound with treaties that force them to use French companies for construction and to borrow only from French banks. France's Haitian colony was more an abandonment than a grant of freedom. Britain's hold is more a romantic attachment called The Commonwealth. I believe The Commonwealth will fall apart upon the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
The US kept Puerto Rico but doesn't rule it as a colony. At one time it was a major cog in the Caribbean defense network keeping the Russians and their Cuban client at bay. With the collapse of the Soviet Union PR doesn't hold the strategic value it once did and most of the US military bases have closed. There are discussions within Puerto Rico about becoming a US state or remaining a commonwealth. Statehood would be a mistake in my opinion ( I lived there for four years ) because in its present state it gets all the benefits of a state without an obligation to pay US income taxes. Not that they'd pay any since the majority of the population lives below the US poverty line and wouldn't pay any at all. A large part of the population receives SNAP (Food Stamps) which came to the island in the 1970s and replaced the Mantenga which was the distribution of US surplus dairy products. If the island voted for independence the US would benefit financially on the face of it. But practically, the new nation would just get foreign aid instead, a bribe to keep them away from the new danger, China.
@@robertcuminale1212 well colonialialisim comes in many forms in the us for a long time even after european colonies in africa and around the world had become free black were still treated as second class citizns jim cow and racist BS was still king in the 60s and most of white america does not want puerto rico to become a state because it will tip the balance in the senate when it comes to voting its very unlikely that pro white america policy candidates will be voted in puerto rico
@@pinkpolka4229 your reply does not qualify your first statement.
@@robertcuminale1212 the issue is as a country PR would collapse mainly because they would have to take millions in foreign loans whilst having the influence of the US still dictating who they can trade with especially China. PR would benefit as a state in a way PR is more like America’s step child. America will defend it , but they don’t get the same determination and access to federal funds as poor states do. Hence PR gdp is so low compared to other poor states like MS and AL for example. Sadly, I don’t see PR becoming a state anytime soon .
I never knew about Vietnamese troops. This documentary is so important. Watching from South Africa
I watched an interview of a black German woman who was born and raised in Nazi Germany in Hamburg and she said she didn't experience any racism until she married her husband who was an African-American soldier in World War II and she moved to the U.S. Maybe it was because both of her parents were black but she said she never had any issues living in Germany up until she left in 1948.
I think its becouse her parents were black
@@channelshalom8914 No, she was from a german colony and partially german. Her grandfather was german or so.
Everywhere women who have relationships with an occupier are not liked. The children are of course innocent, and the racist part is the thing that makes it even worse for those children.
Exactly. French women who had relationships with Germans were shaved ("tondues") and made to run naked in the streets at the end of World War II.
@@funnycat1957 they fought about a week or something? Lol good job french at least you can beat a woman!
Wow, at a loss of words. How do grown adults legislate sterilizing of children. Some of the history is too shameful and painful
Oh my dear I live in NZ but I know only to well that this behaviour is in all of us .... If the world commands we all follow like sheep just look at fashion and musi
Done in the US until the 1970s for mental detectives and undesirables
Ephesians 6:12
I don’t know why don’t you go take a look at the border because they’re doing that to women Hispanic women human beings what the fuck 🆘😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡✊🏽
@@seanm7539 good.
The things that black people have been through AROUND THE WORLD is really heartbroken. To be hated everywhere and to be portrayed so badly it’s truly sad. Now, things seem to be going backwards. Lord, help us!!
Exactly now they're going after the White people...these DEMONS need to be stopped 🤬 !
Right! Oh my god!
It's crazy. Just ridiculous.
I couldn't have gone
through such hatred
for myself. They would
have most definite hung
me up.
More than 2000 white farmers were murdered in south africa since the end of the apartheid in 1994.
thank you for providing insight into this episode in human history. it's clear, based on your research that no one is immune from the taint of racism and intolerance under certain circumstances.
Feels like we're seeing this today around the world. Ex. Han Chinese vs Uyghur Chinese , "Ex.2 Bangladesh Rohingya Refuges camp. etc....
Yep, we have ALL the information and knowledge... And the WORLD looks the other way.
It's just too inconvenient to the WORLD.....corruption and beating the oppressed never goes out of style.
Sickening!!!
CHINA 🇨🇳 the Asian Third Reich
@@itrthho Really!!! You read too many newspapers.
Neo-Aryanism in US and Germany
What about bangladesh? Rohingyas are leading a safe life here from the buddhists
“Syphilitic Mullatos” Damn! That one still stings 😂🤦🏽♂️
@D Mass is that so? And the white soldiers weren’t spreading VD. In any case, kindly provide the source of this information should be a matter of public record by now.
@D Mass stfu troll
Why?
I wish th French would've kept the Senegalese soldiers over in Germany for longer
@Nuclear Alex bcuz I am an in glorious bastard I wish they would have scalped every nazi they seen that's why I don't like Nazis
There is always more in the way things turned out and it is important to understand how these things happened and still happen.
I appreciate these documentaries. None of us are of some sort of pure race.
I've researched so much about the ww2 in europe but i never recall seeing anything about this. it still shocks me just how depraved humanity can be.
I cried at the end. That man fought for them, bled for them and was proud to do so... even after what they did to him
Visiting as many European countries countries as I have,I found Germans to be the most liberal and open minded above other countries. Totally opposite of what Afolf Hitler stood for. There will always be racism however, Germans for the most part are most warm and open minded people. It's unfortunate they will always be stereotyped as Nazis.
Keep talking about paperwork citizenship, troll
Don't we have Forget this.Where ever the Citizens of a Country are docile and nice it's a breading ground for tyrant Government.
Yes. The Nazi stain is difficult to erase from Germany, especially when SOME young people embrace Nazism.
Who does that? I've never in my life heard Germans considered to be NAZIs? The war has been over for almost 80 years and most who were involved in it have passed.
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The professor who speaks at around 14:00 Professor Mass uses the word übertragen which is probably “transference” in the Freudian sense. The translation uses “transmission” but I think the meaning is not strong enough.
Watching this just makes me think, when I was young I felt accepted I had many friends of all races , now I have this feeling racism can approach a person in the form of jealousy, I understand it's not a new way of thinking or concept but an excuse, a excuse to degrade a persons way of thinking, a person could question themselves, asking where do I really belong, it's only been 70 years since these events in these documentaries took place, and the generations that live in these times the ideology of then lives on, I mean a person only has their own experiences to make sense of things.
And again I ask this question is racism the same as going to the shop and having a choice out of what's for sale. Is it actually a choice or is it based on experiences.
When I watch these documentaries knowing that it wasnt that long ago life was like this,
and its still like this in the minds of many, am I safe from racism, did I get blamed for something a person of the opposite colour would get praised for.
Not only is there competition in the work place but now I feel it more, that a person of colour should be below the counterpart that would use colour as a benchmark...
Just those words even though I have many more, racism can steal a persons reality . .
I grew up the same way you did. Your wake up call will come, you just must prepare yourself. The generations before experienced it first hand so they're knowledgeable about it. Whomever tells you are just preparing you for what is to come. If you have no knowledge of your past, you are condemned to repeat it.
This is history that should be remembered, thank you DW!
Can’t really imagine that how tough could’ve it been for those poor people back then. My heart goes out to them...
Yeah it must have been scary as all hell. I remembered how the Nazi government did this to disable people. But I didn't know it happened to mix race people too. Some parts of Africa & the middle east join the Axis in WW2. So wtf, I'm not going to try to get in the Nazi's mind set.
Life has ALWAYS been mostly awful for too many. And continues to be.
@@Mercurychyld1 Yup.
Virtue signalling. This still goes on today all over the world, there will be plenty of it going on in your own country wherever it is that you live and unless you are willing to try to do something concrete to change your world then your heart means nothing. Empty virtue signalling.
Jesse Owens was the most decorated athlete at the Berlin’s Olympics. His top- competitor was a German athlete named Luz Long. Blue eyes, blond hair, the proto-aryan all designated to become the villain we were taught to hate. What hollywood and MSM in the US and antiracist bs groups don’t like about the following true story is that it doesn’t fit THEIR narrative.
Luz Long and Jesse Owens became best friends at these Olympics. A bit of research with tell you why. Interesting stuff. And there is this also:
"The Nazi officials at the Berlin Olympics", Jesse Owens told reporters. “would invite me in their VIP section, shaking my hand amd congratulating me warmly everytime I stepped down from the podium with a gold medal . I was treated like a dignitary by the Germans. The US president didn’t even bother to call me, for any medal, not once. I returned to the USA a Olympic champion, but I was not allowed to drink from the same waterfountains as the white people, couldn’t sit just anywhere I wanted to on buses. I was not allowed in this bar, that hotel, that swimming pool. None of that was happening in Nazi Germany. I met black folks who were just as German as the blondest of them”.
The contents of this is so appalling but incredibly well done. Much credit to DW for bringing this to light..would make a great movie and I mean that with no disrespect
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as a black Jamaican i love DW they tell the truth even if it is about there own dark history but they admit they did wrong
all races of people have done horrible thing at one time or another look at the muslim slave trade that is still going on now.
Fully support them as well, they got the balls to admit to a mistake, but what is even more important they learn from those mistakes.
Germany in a nutshell
@@johnthefishermanjohnhoyle5763 Islam abolished slavery and some nations brought it back the ones you talk about are not real Muslims and most of them have there Education in your Colleges GTFO !! and if you are talking about Libya you bum who created the havoc there and in all africa in general what a bum you are a flat one
Yeah, that's one thing I love about Germany, confessing their sins and moving forward with the goal to not repeat it. America on the other hand still tries to white wash it's history.
Thank you. I am constantly impressed with the level of research and objectivity displayed by DW. Difficult to find these days. Please, keep up the absolutely fantastic work!
This man's parents did him a disservice by letting him join the military. Smh. How could you misjudge your own culture so royally.
Wars, social injustices, injustices against children and women .... they all burn deep in souls of any normal person ... but racism provokes deepest sadness and shame inside of me.
Wow. They've been this evil forever!
Who are they?
Germany rose against the evil of the world bankers .
@@inaleyen2737 whites
@@Vampybattie I thought so!
@@inaleyen2737 You need to do research to answer your question. It is not that simple at all and has been happening for hundreds, no thousands of years. The Elite who wish to rule the world under one central government has forever set black against white , asian against Caucasian oh you get the message as the list goes on forever. It is where racism of any type comes from tho, and we , the human race need to recognize this or we will be the cause of the end of ourselves. Sorry to be so dramatic but it is that serious and is why we are in the fix we face right now. It is also why President Trump really does need to get back into power, he’s the only one brave enough to stand up to them.
Gosh, it ain't easy being a brown man everywhere in the world. No matter how nice and forgiving you are, some sick group of people will always feel intimidated, agitated and uncomfortable with your presence.
Its very disheartening. Even reading the comments section....all i see is people talking about how important this part of history is. Like no one sees human beings in the documentary. They only saw a piece of history.
Very disgusting
Nah. Just assimilate. You’ll be fine. Everybody likes respectful people. I’m Jewish. Been subject to plenty of racism. Big deal. Don’t indulge in victimhood.
@@adart2496 Don't indulge in victimhood. Really?
Every human being on this planet has Black DNA 🧬 in them according to the Bible they were the first race on the earth 50,OOO years ago
@@adart2496 well the holoxaust was not that big of a deal either but you guys make such a big feal out of it.
The truth has never been told, for those who instigate anger, in their own defence, but the worst of it all for who carried on the guilt in hiding the truth.
@42:25... he speaks what history hides. This was amazingly interesting documentary. I'm so glad to have found it.
Ironic that modern day propagandists are discussing old times propaganda.
😂 right!? They talk about it like they disagree with it.. That's rich! 😅
That doesn’t even make sense
@@drjimmy8498 What do you mean?
@@jwonz2054 Propaganda isn’t always lies or did I misunderstand you apologies if I did
@@drjimmy8498 sure that happened jimmy
Well done DW it’s a dark side of human history seems we didn’t learn anything from the past.
We didn't learn the past
Exactly!
@@michelletaylor4298 There is so much for us to learn
Documented proof please. Thanks.
Only now ignorance of the truth and facts can no longer be the claim. The hate we see on display now is a willful condition of the hearts of those people. And it's not about ethnic survival. It's about pride and whatever power they feel they receive from satisfying the darkness in and of their hearts.
Thank you Deutsch Welle for this wonderful and brilliantly informative piece of documentary. What I have learned from this documentary was that the rise of Adolf Hitler's National Socialism and the German Nazi Party was actually somewhat linked to the collapse of the German Monarchy. Something I have never thought of during my time as a history student back in university. I thought Hitler's rise to power was due to the widespread global economic depression in 1929 and German nationalism against the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles against the German National Interests after it's defeat in the First World War. But not all, as the documentary suggested, many ordinary Germans and nationalists regarded the Weimar Republic and the new democratically elected SPD government as traitors for signing the Treaty of Versailles. They wanted strong man rule, a new figure that can "make Germany great again" after the First World War. Therefore Adolf Hitler capitalized on this situation, by promising the German public to abolish Treaty of Versailles and to "Make Germany Great Again", Hitler automatically became the symbol of the new "German Kaiser".
Meanwhile, by signing the Treaty of Versailles, it allowed the French military to pull in African and Asian soldiers to police on German territories, the great racial humiliation contributed greatly to the latter German public's support to the Nazi Party.
My aunt was born in Guatemala and my uncle was born in Germany both half Germans half Hispanics...and both served in the German military...my aunt was deployed to France with the Luftwaffe in an office...my uncle in the German navy...I have my aunt's Id with her German uniform and off course the swastika...she told me she never had any problems or issues with the Germans.....at all.
It’s cause Germans are also humans and the good guy bad guy Star Wars narrative of history we are constantly fed is bs.
Every time you release a new documentary I get excited. Your documentaries never fail to amaze me.
Hi @Sudarshan, we are glad you like our content, thanks for watching :)
When you're constantly told you're the wrong colour 💔
@Deborah Brennan thank you thank you. I feel the love. Stay safe. All the way from South Africa 🇿🇦
“THE PROBLEM WITH THE WORLD IS THAT INTELLIGENT PEOPLE ARE FULL OF DOUBTS, WHILE THE STUPID ONES ARE FULL OF CONFIDENCE.”
Never let anyone bring you down! You are just perfect the way you are!
Much love from The Netherlands!
@@MissyLover that's beautiful. Thank you so much.
@@fezilesikhakhane9633 You are welcome, And you are beautifull!
You're not the wrong _anything_ Anyone telling you any different *is wrong*
Believe in yourself, give love, enjoy peace. All the best to you, from South London.
As an American, I have never learned about this, and I love history. Hitler and the Nazis are always presented here as some inexplicable evil that just arose from the dust between the WWs, more about MGGA than anything. But now it makes sense! I guess if the US told this, then we'd have to admit our part in it. It's good we didn't as no doubt the blame for WWII would've probably somewhat fallen on Black, Arab, and Asian people. I never heard this story from my grandfathers, and they were terribly racist, in the tradition of the very propaganda told here (my lovely mother kept them checked around me), but I'm sure it had an effect on them. Although America already had a huge racist opinion going, needing no help from Germany. I did hear that America exported eugenics in the early 1900s, though.
Its extremely prevalent in Africa. They have murdered their own people And thousands of white farmers Men, Woman , And children as well. Besides ADIS Ibola And Money Pox . Their Racism And other Racists is the Number one senseless killing of innocent people everywhere. If you're not from that country YOU'RE THE MINORITY. Sad indeed.
What is the source of the picture? What is the source of your information?
Americans : eyeball racism German: scientific racism. Results?... the same...😞
DW documentaries are of very high quality, informative, and seem to cover a variety of interesting topics. I hope they maintain this high standard.
And let’s not forget: This was the norm everywhere, but only brought more to the extreme by the nazis.
It still is the norm, but a bit less so.
Let’s ask our selves: was what the Nazis did actually extreme or would finding out the Germans were funded by American donors to back up this eugenics project so they could implement the results in America? No “extreme” project of this measure on data collecting is ever monetarily supported solely by one entity (country).
is there something wrong with being against an occupying force breeding with your nations women?
@@teru797 so u have to sterilise the children ?do u even hear yourself ?
@@omzy8700 That part is not nice but it's not what I said either. Read it again please.
@@omzy8700 Bad things do not happen without reason. Germany had to suffer a lot during 1914-1918 and also during the 1920s beacuse of Versailles. In 1933, six million people had no job and were completely desperated.
As a child and as a young student, I was told many personal stories about the horrors of the French occupation of the Rhineland, but nothing about blacks.
Black people*
@@CL-hs3ku kpoop stans are massive crybabies
@@CL-hs3ku Emphasis on the asterisk.
I just have to say, I feel so bad for the german women who have had to live through all this without ever having any societal power to effect any change. All of this was just put onto their lives when they just probably wanted to live in peace. 😢
Unfortunately, there were women behind the Nazis just like the Women/Daughters of the Confederacy in the US and in more recent memory, Women for Trump...
@@1223gend it's not hard when you're in a place of dire need and you're brainwashed. You really have to think about a "Woman's Place" in the 1900's.
In the beginning Hitler had the German economy booming imagine having to live through multiple Wars and long periods of starvation and terror to literally be promised the world.
Overwhelmingly the German women stand by the side of Germany men. They don’t want change! That’s bs
This is surprising. But this sentiment is much higher in areas like in the middle-east. How many women from the middle-east or Arabian land are married to males from another ethnicity? Foreign males who having a long look at the middle east women are jailed by their law. At the same time, their men went around the world meeting women, particularly from Europe. Take the case of Diana.
Arab men and men in general are naturally protective of their women and preserving their progeny. If a woman is willing why would any man say no?
I thought he was a Frenchmen that happened to have arabic ancestry...
Like my mom always said "Fools are everywhere in every culture on this Planet"
Middle eastern men protect their own women’s virtue usually.
Hindutva-RSS-BJP hypocrite spotted. In your country of India they have the conspiracy myth of "Love Jihad" and afraid Muslim Indian men are marrying Hindu women who convert to Islam of their own choice.
Sometimes I wonder how humans can be so cruel. Generations after generations, humans would rather yield to their fears rather than confront them. Sometimes we don't even know or truly understand what we're scared of. However, there are candle lights of humans out there who show you why pure evil cannot win.
This is an amazing documentary.
Thoroughly enjoyed watching this, very informative documentary about the unfortunate history of humanity. Just subscribed, looking forward to more content. Salute, all the way from South Africa.
also from SA, i see a lot of where aprarthied comes from
How’s in SA now? How’s all the white farmers doing ?
@@tashahatzidakis5680 RSA is totally f'ed up economically. V sad.
@@tashahatzidakis5680 they’re fine . Still hoarding up all the wealth and land while natives starve
another valuable piece of history, Thank again DW!
Not sure if u should trust media too much. You are served the truth only by mistake there. Beware and don't fall a victim
@@gonnabeok media is one thing and journalism is another. You choose what you believe, I believe this is a journalistic piece based on facts. Why do I believe this? Because this information is written multiple times in multiple books and has plenty of data to back up the narrative and this journalistic documentary is from a trusted source that has proven to report true information.
@@ninapickles9 Not all audience have awaken mind though, many swallow literally everything as it is being provided with no consideration. That's the problem.
@@gonnabeok I completely agree! Unfortunately people are very easily persuaded and people with an evil agenda know exactly how to control the puppets. It's sad that most people aren't self-aware enough to distrust and investigate a topic to have the full picture, from their own deductions from the information found. It's also a lot easier to just read provocative headlines and adopt that narrative!
@@ninapickles9 repeat a lie over and over, spread through different means, echoed by a variety of voices, over and over and over again and sooner or later they will believe it.
This principle was applied to a T by Goebbels. Just saying
I first learned of this at the Imperial War Museum in London glad it is being highlighted again.
Excellent segment! I am bi-racial German/American. In all the history courses I took at a university in Germany and the U.S., this was deleted from the history books!
German and American are not races, one is an ethnicity and the other is a civic nationality
We should all remember what these people have gone through, such horrible event. I hope that we learn from the mistakes and make sure that there are no longer victims like this. I hope the best for these people.
Should we not remember what all of humanity has gone through!
@@cameronlewis7029 What, specifically has "humanity" gone through?
@@hisbeautifultruth5931 I retract that statement, it's what darker skinned people are going through!
Hyvin on mennyt läpi kulttuurimarxismi läpi Saksassa. Kansa inhoaa itseään. Tutustukaa 'Kalergi-suunnitelmaan' vuodelta 1922.
Halt den Mund!
Everything that is hidden shall be revealed...
And the first shall be made last.
I thank Almighty God for that.
Jesus Christ said that!
SO MUCH EVIL THE WORLD OVER FOR MANY CENTURYS. TIME
RETURN TO THE LORD TO RELIEVE US FROM
THESE EVIL DEMONS ! AMEN AND AMEN. 👍♥️🇺🇸
This literally wasn't even mentioned when we're were studying WWII. As someone who isn't Caucasian this sent sheets down my spine
I'm pretty sure my history teacher was a Nazi sympathizer back when I was in school. Nazi atrocities were always downplayed or outright denied in his class.
@OG Pops
Well he told us the Holocaust didn't happen and that the Japanese aren't human. Seems like a pretty strong bit of evidence.
@OG Pops Preston I think you found your teacher, I mean what are the chances!
@OG Pops dude, hush if you can’t read between the lines then I can’t help you.
@OG Pops you need serious help because your mental faculties are not in order! 😂
Am glad DW backed by Germany had the soul to show these horrors to the world about their dark history. If only BBC had the soul to document the horrors done by it to all its slave countries.
This history tells us that little has changed.
Elvi Kam, a lot has changed! To say it has not does a great disservice to Martin Luther King, Does Parks, and many others who fought for change.
8:34 anyone have any info about this picture of the three soliders looking over the city? what city is it?
The photo was taken overlooking Koblenz, at the confluence of the rivers Rhine and Mosel, sometime between 1923 and 1925.
I watched a interview of a Hamburg woman in USA. Her father was an African sailor. Interestingly she and a sizeable community lived through the war. With no government interest aside from exclusion from schooling. Her biggest danger, in her words, was the Allied bombing of Hamburg. I wish I could remember her name and reference that video here. I seem to remember she was in a Southern State in USA where she emigrated to in the late 50s. Very interesting accent. That high lilt Americanised and cadence slightly faster than American speed of speaking.
Esther Anumu Fordham, Growing up Black in Germany. The full documentary is still available on CZcams.
Im very happy we germans are proud enough to uncover such past mistakes and learn from them. Not many - if any - other nation does this.
I don't blame Germany. You guys needed unification in some way shape or form. Best way to do that is to find a common interest and a difference which can be in a minority. Easiest way is skin color
Like Japan & Turkey.
Your nation was built on the blood and murder of millions, but then again I guess every powerful nation was.
The great thing is germany will be majority african and asian soon. This is karma but its good because u need diveristy. Its so annoying how some racists try and stop immigration
I don't know why this commentator voice is sooo soothing
The Gieko gecko
This is an eye-opener for me.
I think its important to point out and remember that the NAZIs under Hitler had different racial classifications than Americans and perhaps others do today, and they did not see 'race' as simply a skin color. That was by no means any guarantee you would not be persecuted.
In fact black people in Nazi Germany were never subject to an organized mass extermination program purely by race designation, as was the case with (as they decided) Jews, homosexuals, Romani, and Slavs.
Shockingly, when I was introduced to this part of history they were still called the Rhineland bastards and I learned they were the offspring of colonial soldiers from Africa.
Why don't use subtitels so we can hear the actual voices of the people speaking instead of using voice overs?
Subtitles make so much more sense!
Agree but I don’t think a lot of people read subtitles
I know a lot of people will allow a video to play and just listen while doing other things. It would be difficult to do that with subtitles. That's just my guess 🤷🏽♀️
That would help with my German indeed.
@@zari2662 you might be right It’s just that the footage is quite good and I like hearing other languages 😁
I applaud DW for telling history without changing it. As a African it angers me to see some "progressive" types in the West making black people powerful in historical settings where we were not in order to appease some Western people of color. Most of us Africans prefer to be told the unfiltered truth because we are not weak minded. So I repeat: thank you DW and continue reporting historical events accurately.
All depends on what era they're referring to
@@undisclosed_branding9714 All that matters is accuracy and not propaganda. Nowadays in the name of inclusion some Western media lie about African history in order to not offend black American activists.
@@henrymmene4470 It's not for fear of offending black Americans at all...Offending black people never weighed on their minds...It's shame. They don't want to face their own savagery and historical shortcomings
Please share some the lies you're referencing.
@@cappriment There are people claiming there were black vikings.
Tears, tears. But I still have love for everyone. Man! It's sad that some peeps see me like that. I love all that hate me because of my skin.
WHY IS THIS NOT TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS!!!!? ugh I can’t 🤦🏽♀️
And history repeats itself. This sounds oddly familiar to what's happening in another nation and intensified over the last 5 years.
The US?
India, there is lots happening to the Muslims here, hope World will know.
According to the US media: white people are racists and blacks are their victims.
@@abdullahal-shimri3091 That's not the media that's just basic US history.
@@maxemilion7124 Are you shedding those crocodile tears because China is taking care of the persecuting part is
This is an excellent documentary and I can find very little similar content anywhere else on CZcams. It’s such a sad and tragic history but it’s only by shining a light and understanding it that we can prevent the repetition of such traumas.
Well produced and researched by DW News, which is my favourite channel and makes the best documentaries by far. Highly recommend them. Thank you for all you hard work 👍
Great documentaries !
13:19 - Mind blowing how true that is today, almost a full one hundred years later.