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His account of that period of his life is especially poignant because his father was a welltodo, influential black man from liberia serving as consul in hamburg, and his mother was a white german woman. Jul 02, 2015 no other autobiography to this extent about the life of a black german in nazi germany exists. Growing up black in nazi germany march 2000 library of. Germany in color 1936 1945deutschland in farbe 1936 1945alemania en color 1936 1945 1936 1945.
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