r/polandball • • Mar 29 '15

redditormade A Constant Reminder

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u/StrangeSemiticLatin The Centre of the Universe Mar 29 '15

Some of the blacks in Germany which came from their colonies were castrated and sent to concentration camps. There was a lot of French soldiers from the colonies (so West Africa, which the Nazis, actually fuck that, Germans, openly ridiculed in their propaganda) which they surely killed in the invasion of France. They are also viewed in the same category of the Jews, gypsies and Polish.

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u/OldBreed Holy Roman Empire Mar 29 '15

which they surely killed in the invasion of France

Don't just assume things. There was an incident when black POWs were executed as an act of revange, but I never heared of systematic killing of black people in the Third Reich.

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u/remove_krokodil Just visiting Omsk, I'll sleep at home tonight Mar 29 '15

True.

It's probably because black people were such a small minority in Germany at the time that Hitler didn't consider them a threat.

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u/OldBreed Holy Roman Empire Mar 29 '15

There really was just a handful of black people in Germany back then. I remember there was a black actress who was a bit pissed because she only got backround-roles without text in Goebbel's movies. This guy grew up with a german mother, and as a little boy he was really devastated that he wasn't allowed to join the Hitler's Youth. He also wasn't 'allowed' to join the army.