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Germany's Black Holocaust, 1890-1945: The Untold Truth!
In the 1890s Blacks were tortured in German concentration camps in Southwest Africa (now called Namibia) when Adolph Hitler was only a child. Colonial German doctors conducted unspeakable medical experiments on these emaciated helpless Africans decades before such atrocities were ever visited upon the Jews. Thousands of Africans were massacred. Regrettably, historians neglected to properly register the slaughter—that is, to lift it from the footnote in history that it had been relegated to—until now. In an attempt to give the incidents their rightful recognition in the historical context of the Holocaust, Dr. Firpo W. Carr has authored a new book entitled, Germany’s Black 1890–1945. In it, he reveals the startling hidden history of Black victims of the Holocaust. The mayhem and carnage date back to the turn of the 20th century, many years before there were ever any other unfortunate victims—Jew or Gentile—of the Holocaust. Carr conducted three incredibly revealing interviews (1) a Black female Holocaust victim; (2) the Black commanding officer who liberated 8,000 Black men from a concentration camp; and (3) an African American medic from the all-Black medical unit that was responsible for retrieving thousands of dead bodies from Dachau. (White medical units were spared the gruesome task.) "Kay," the Black female Holocaust survivor, "You cannot possibly comprehend the anger I have in me because of being experimented on in Dachau, and being called ‘nigger girl’ and ‘blacky’ while growing up." Testimonials from the Black commanding officer and African American medic are memorialized, for the first time ever, in Carr’s book. The research is based on voluminous documentation, and more. If you are like most people, you simply have never heard the unbelievable story of Black victims of the Holocaust. You are invited to read about the human spirit's triump over events that occurred during this horrible piece of hidden history.
262 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2003
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April 3, 2013
While this book is not the best literary historical non fiction piece ever written it does offer a great deal of insight into what is otherwise unwritten and undocumented. Readers will not hear of instances that they have not imagined but will read documented evidence to support what people of colour have long since known or assumed. The most damning piece of information is that the fact that the disgusting treatment of people of colour by Nazi Germany which has been perpetuated for the last few hundred years began, (in this book) in the colonies in Namibia and in slave trade US and was replicated by the Nazis during the second world war in the concentration camps.
October 13, 2014
What i have read so far brought tears to my eyes. The Germans were merciless, coldblooded pawns of wicked evil in what they did to Africa. Why have the Jews not spoken of Germany's African atrocities? Reading this book will not be easy, History cannot be hidden and the internet is serving to expose that which was hidden. Caucasian people around the world will stand before the ultimate judge for crimes against humanity from the beginning of time. That's not to say others will not. This book is an informative historical masterpiece. It reads like an expose rather than a novel. I'm looking forward to discovering more truth about african peoples world wide.
May 10, 2015
This should be more correctly called, "America & Germany a Comparative Study." I effing know that there are terrible people and terrible things have been done. If you wanted to know more about the tragedy of Shark Island, don't bother with this book, because while Carr tells the reader how he researched so hard. He barely mentions these victims who he claims to be writing about. What he does is bla, bla, bla yammers on how terrible people and things compare between Nazi Germany and America, or even the Black Panthers and Neo-Nazis. Don't waste your time on this book.
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October 20, 2019Read this first: https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-germ...
Well documented article by The Times of Israel, about Germany's very long history of genocide. As many atrocities do, they start in Africa and perfected. By the time they started with the Jewish holocaust, they had perfected their evil craft. Completely despicable.
Well documented article by The Times of Israel, about Germany's very long history of genocide. As many atrocities do, they start in Africa and perfected. By the time they started with the Jewish holocaust, they had perfected their evil craft. Completely despicable.
February 10, 2017
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June 3, 2016
Interesting and informative. I learned a lot on a topic I knew nothing about.
September 28, 2023
Germans Black Holocast
Praise God for the truth be told regarding African during the treatment my the German government. One person stated that they were treated less than animals. Why isn't ant of this information taught in schools! excellent book!
Praise God for the truth be told regarding African during the treatment my the German government. One person stated that they were treated less than animals. Why isn't ant of this information taught in schools! excellent book!
January 3, 2024
Firpo Carr's Germany's Black Holocaust: 1890-1945 is obviously self-published. The clues are everywhere: terrible proof-reading, repetitiveness, disorganization, hyperbolic sentences, lack of a bibliography, claims of originality that simply aren't true (for example, he claims that the German war on the Herero and Nama peoples of Southwest Africa has been ignored till now, when in fact there is a massive bibliography and lively debate among historians about the possible relation between that and the Holocaust).
It's too bad Carr didn't have professional help, because the topic is important and his passionate investment could have made the book a good introduction to German attitudes toward Blacks in the twentieth century. His chapters on the Afro-French troops stationed in the Rhineland after World War I are particularly revelatory, but I for one wanted lots more detail and contextualization. Under the Weimar Republic leftist Germans welcomed Black musicians and dancers while racist attitudes permeated German society; I was left wondering about the links, if any, between those attitudes and the German experience in Africa. Did German efforts to exterminate the Herero and Nama feed into a preexisting racism? Or were they different phenomena? Sexual relations and even marriage between German settler-colonists and local Blacks in Africa deeply troubled German authorities, who sought to prevent them, but of course this was a "problem" that afflicted all colonial powers, as getting white women to emigrate was always difficult; Carr doesn't address these matters. He also has nothing to say about German experiences in its other African colonies, like Togo and German East Africa (today Kenya and Tanzania). In the latter the Germans fought a vicious colonial war in the 1880s that goes by untreated, but it was fundamental to the development of German attitudes toward their colonial subjects and a basic shaper of the response, a few decades later, to the revolt in Southwest Africa.
Carr has uncovered and reproduced some shocking illustrations, photographs of hanged Africans and posters depicting "savage" and "sub-human" Blacks in Germany. These are chilling.
For anyone completely unfamiliar with German views about Blacks, Carr's book can serve as an introduction, but it needs to be read with some care and a consciousness of its problems.
It's too bad Carr didn't have professional help, because the topic is important and his passionate investment could have made the book a good introduction to German attitudes toward Blacks in the twentieth century. His chapters on the Afro-French troops stationed in the Rhineland after World War I are particularly revelatory, but I for one wanted lots more detail and contextualization. Under the Weimar Republic leftist Germans welcomed Black musicians and dancers while racist attitudes permeated German society; I was left wondering about the links, if any, between those attitudes and the German experience in Africa. Did German efforts to exterminate the Herero and Nama feed into a preexisting racism? Or were they different phenomena? Sexual relations and even marriage between German settler-colonists and local Blacks in Africa deeply troubled German authorities, who sought to prevent them, but of course this was a "problem" that afflicted all colonial powers, as getting white women to emigrate was always difficult; Carr doesn't address these matters. He also has nothing to say about German experiences in its other African colonies, like Togo and German East Africa (today Kenya and Tanzania). In the latter the Germans fought a vicious colonial war in the 1880s that goes by untreated, but it was fundamental to the development of German attitudes toward their colonial subjects and a basic shaper of the response, a few decades later, to the revolt in Southwest Africa.
Carr has uncovered and reproduced some shocking illustrations, photographs of hanged Africans and posters depicting "savage" and "sub-human" Blacks in Germany. These are chilling.
For anyone completely unfamiliar with German views about Blacks, Carr's book can serve as an introduction, but it needs to be read with some care and a consciousness of its problems.
August 17, 2022
This book is weird, possibly because it’s clear the Apple Books version I read was not exactly well done.
The stuff actually about 1890-1945 is interesting and unique, but it’s a shame the book has big ‘college student who got his essay topic approved, waited til the last week to write, and then realised there was not enough in the sources to get to the required page length’ energy to it. There’s a LOT of loosely connected stuff in here, talked about with gusto, and few if anything new directly connected to the topic at hand after the first few chapters. The constant citing of the encyclopaedia and asides to the reader come across as more amateurish than I anticipated, while other parts of the book are fantastically written with fierce prose. It’s an important work but often comes across as a mess. I hope there’s more on the topic.
Also some parts felt vaguely anti-Semitic, which felt super weird to find in a book about a/the Holocaust.
The stuff actually about 1890-1945 is interesting and unique, but it’s a shame the book has big ‘college student who got his essay topic approved, waited til the last week to write, and then realised there was not enough in the sources to get to the required page length’ energy to it. There’s a LOT of loosely connected stuff in here, talked about with gusto, and few if anything new directly connected to the topic at hand after the first few chapters. The constant citing of the encyclopaedia and asides to the reader come across as more amateurish than I anticipated, while other parts of the book are fantastically written with fierce prose. It’s an important work but often comes across as a mess. I hope there’s more on the topic.
Also some parts felt vaguely anti-Semitic, which felt super weird to find in a book about a/the Holocaust.
May 14, 2019
I read this to write a paper and it was very helpful
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October 28, 2010I met the author he is a very sharp guy
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May 19, 2020Sad but required reading...At the end of the day I really want to know what exactly did so called Black people do to deserve the treatment we have received to date
May 1, 2022
A fascinating read about the Black experience in Colonial and Nazi Germany.
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