OUR ROOTS – Hitler’s Black Victims in Nazi Germany WW1 – 2023
*The Armistice, known as an agreement to end the fighting of the First World War as a prelude to peace negotiations, began at 11am on 11 November 1918. Armistice Day around the United Kingdom is marked with a two-minute silence at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month. This year it fell this past Saturday.
There were several thousands of Black people who lived in Germany when Adolf Hitler and the Nazis came to power in 1933. There was so much racism by the Nazis who viewed Black people as inferior and they used racial laws and policies to restrict the economic and social opportunities of Black people. An unknown number of Black people were imprisoned, harassed, sterilized and many killed, and no doubt other atrocities must have been done to them.
The Nazis functioned from 1933 – 1945. Armistice in Latin means to stand still. The First World War often gives the impression that the war was a European War, fought only by Europeans. There has been little effort to acknowledge the contributions of Black and Asian soldiers in WW1 and there was no adequate documentation about the plight of Black and Asian victims during the Holocaust. It is thought that there were fewer black victims. At least about 55,000 black victims and prisoners of war were victimized by the Nazis. The notion is saying that Black lives didn’t matter then. It mattered then, it matters today, and matters tomorrow. I have always worn my Poppy with pride as a show of support for the Armed Forces community which includes UK blacks at war or the Nazi camps. Monies raised from it help continue the vital work of supporting serving ex-serving men and women, and their families. The Royal British Legion is at the heart of the Poppy appeal. It’s the largest Armed Forces charity in the U.K.
Comic artist TAYO Fatunla – OUR ROOTS creator
TAYO Fatunla whose work has been featured on MSN.com via EURweb.com is an award-winning British-Nigerian Comic Artist, Editorial Cartoonist, Writer, and Illustrator and is an artist of the African diaspora. He is a graduate of the prestigious Kubert School, in New Jersey, US, and recipient of the 2018 ECBACC Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award for his illustrated OUR ROOTS creation and series – Famous people in Black History – He participated at UNESCO’s Cartooning In Africa forum held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and the Cartooning Global Forum in Paris, France and has held a virtual OUR ROOTS cartoon workshop for SMITHSONIAN- National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C. His Fela Kuti image is prominently featured in Burna Boy’s mega-Afrobeat hit song “Ye”. – https://www.instagram.com/tfatunla123
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