Campt Tina. Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich

Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2003. — 296 p. — ISBN10: 0472113607; ISBN13: 978-0472113606 — (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany)It's hard to imagine an issue or image more riveting than Black Germans during the Third Reich. Yet accounts of their lives are virtually nonexistent, despite the fact that they lived through a regime dedicated to racial purity. Tina Campt's Other Germans tells the story of this largely forgotten group of individuals, with important distinctions from other accounts. Most strikingly, Campt centers her arguments on race, rather than anti-semitism. She also provides oral history as background for her study, interviewing two Black Germans for the book. In the end, the author comes face to face with an inevitable question: Is there a relationship between the history of Black Germans and those of other black communities? The answers to Campt's questions make Other Germans essential reading in the emerging study of what it meant to be black and German in the context of a society that looked at anyone with non-German blood as racially impure at best.Race, memory, and historical representation: Contextualizing Black German Narratives of the Third ReichEchoes of imagined danger—specters of racial mixture“Resonant echoes”. The Rhineland Campaign and Converging Specters of Racial Mixture
Confronting racial danger, neutralizing racial pollution. Afro-Germans and the National Socialist Sterilization Program[i][b]Memory narratives/Memory technologies. Race, Gendering, and the Politics of Memory Work[b][i]Conversations with the “other within”. Memories of a Black German Coming of Age in the Third Reich
Identifying as the “other within”. National Socialist Racial Politics and an Afro-German Childhood in the Third Reich
Diaspora space, ethnographic space—writing history between the lines. A PostscriptAppendix: Original German Interview Excerpts
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