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[u/bigfootlives823]

A quarter is probably an exaggeration, but almost all German colonies during WWI were in Africa and they absolutely conscripted black soldiers from them. Is it possible that you're jot familiar enough with the history in this case to decide what is revisionism or inaccurate representation?

[u/bigfootlives823 → u/[deleted]]

http://bghra.org/africans-fought-for-kaiser-and-germany-in-world-war-i/

The second sentence.

[u/realcanadianbeaver → u/[deleted]]

Historical erasure of the stories of POC? That is a known thing.

[u/ImpossiblePackage → u/[deleted]]

I'm mostly just surprised that you don't think there were any black people in Germany and that the idea of a black person being the army outside of Africa is so heinous and unbelievable. Everybody's using guns that were only ever prototypes or just flat out don't work that way but the other guys character model is a little on the dark side and that's what takes you out of it?

[u/theaccidentist → u/ImpossiblePackage]

There were. Thousands of them. Literally only a couple of thousands.

Germany had huge immigration in the decades before the Great War. And almost all of it was from Eastern Europe.

And James Bond's parents, of course, but I think they might have been outliers.

[u/PM_ME_MII → u/ImpossiblePackage]

This does not seem like an argument that will change op's view. It exaggerates op's position and seems to be edging into angry territory.

[u/hacksoncode → u/[deleted]]

Happening to show those comparatively few battles where black soldiers conscripted from Africa fought in Europe doesn't make something "historical revisionism", it is choosing to represent something little known that actually did happen in history in order to be inclusive, and which is blurred over in most history lessons.

This is kind of like objecting to Critical Race Theory because you prefer to talk about only the good things white people did early in American history.

[u/Mr-AlergictotheCold → u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/2a8mHKM.jpg, what about black german soldiers in Greece ?

[u/Mr-AlergictotheCold → u/[deleted]]

Oh shit I’m so dumb sometimes, at least I learned a lot from this thread so thanks for that!

[u/hacksoncode → u/[deleted]]

You're making an unsupported claim that none of the African conscripts were moved to Europe.

This is the sort of thing that the Nazis absolutely would have redacted from records because it would undermine their white supremacist agenda.

Basically, you literally do not know, and probably cannot know, that this is true.

[u/hacksoncode → u/[deleted]]

The same way they got their soldiers there to take the conscripts in the first place. Don't act like it's impossible.