The boy in the photo went on to become an editor for Ebony magazine. He wrote about a book about his experience growing up in Nazi Germany as a biracial, Black boy. Apparently he wore that patch to fit in with all the other little boys at school, even though black people were prohibited from joining the Hitler Jungen.

He confirms that it was, indeed, racist as fuck.

https://www.amazon.com/Destined-Witness-Growing-Black-Germany/dp/0060959614

> The Nazis were not particularly anti-black despite people claiming they are.

The nazis didnt need any speficic program targeting black people since
a) their racist opinion on black people wasnt controversial at all among
german people or all other western countries
b) there was no actual need to target them aside from the "common practice"
c) they had nothing to gain from frenetically attacking the handful black people
in Germany let alone those who were far far away from Germany and
didnt play any role in future plans (aka "Osterweiterung").
d) the Olympic games played a great role in maintained a "civilized" appearance
toward their adversaries (i.e. the US, UK etc). While Owens did ruin the
main goal showcasing the aryan superiority, they still gained some positive
PR as in "look, we let even this negro run on our turf, we aint that bad, right?"

Blacks were not targeted for execution by the Nazis, and some actually served in the armed forces. While they were not highly regarded, there was no official extermination or execution policy. In any case, none of that would given anyone the right to assault someone simple for wearing something they consider offensive. That's actually very Nazi-like behavior.

Some background:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_black_people_in_Nazi_Germany

An interesting perspective:

https://timeline.com/nazi-prisoners-war-texas-f4a0794458ea

Story of black man who grew up and lived in Nazi Germany:

https://www.amazon.com/Destined-Witness-Growing-Black-Germany/dp/0060959614

There is a book about a black kid who was in the Hitler Youth.

https://www.amazon.com/Destined-Witness-Growing-Black-Germany/dp/0060959614/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=565cfe99-cea6-4783-9c78-2955e3515ee9

https://www.amazon.com/Destined-Witness-Growing-Black-Germany/dp/0060959614

Your education seems to be lacking.

One of the best books I've ever read. This guy died a couple years ago here in LA.

His dad was an African businessman who worked with the Germany government and they lived in Germany. The whole story is about a black kid growing up in Nazi Germany and being in Hitler Youth. Check out this photo.

Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi ... - Amazon

How One Boy Grew Up Black In Nazi Germany — And Survived

>rural Germany didn't have blacks or asians back then

DO I have a book for you. I read this a couple years ago. It's about a black kid who was in Nazi Youth. (click the link to see a fascinating photo) His dad was an African businessman who worked with Germany on metals and other natural resources. This boy died in Los Angeles a few years ago and an article was printed in the LA Times which made me aware and prompted me to check the book out of the library. Great book.

Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany - Amazon.com

I can't believe no one has mentioned this.

There is is a very famous black German, who unfortunately recently died named:

Hans-Jüren Massaquoi, he grew up in Nazi Germany and even wanted to join the HJ Hitlerjugend and the Wehrmacht later on, he was rejected.

This is him:

Hans J. Massaquoi

And this is his book:

Destined To Witness

I can really recommend it with all my heart, if you're into history and maybe a different view on life and that time. It's highly addictive and one of the best books I have read.

LOL... Thanks for taking the bait... and sorry for the delay.

It does sound highly unlikely.

Things usually are much more complex then people tend to believe and familiarity with anything older then 10 years is regrettably poor - if I may be allowed to whine for a moment. Believe me, you are in very ‘good’ company. Most Germans don’t know it either.

I responded from memory and will admit that allowing the impression to form, ‘blacks in the hitleryouth’ could have been a serious option was likely to be misleading in a double sense as it does not really address the point. I needed some cheep satisfaction due to my frustration with your post.

My only excuse is your foreseeable reaction leading to this ‘exposures’. So there you have it... LOL.

I remembered incorrectly however, that the man in question (Hans Massaquoi) ‘only’ made it into the “Deutsche Jungvolk”, a Nazi youth-organization for everyone rather then the actual “Hitlerjugend” (hitleryouth), which was a Nazi-youth organization and more exclusive as well as prestigious.

While I happily apologize for not checking on the correctness of my memory, I cannot apologize for allowing you to be misled temporarily, also because it is irrelevant for the point I was trying to make, which was: one can be ‘member’ of more then one of those ‘tribes’ with bizarrely conflicting interests, so bad, the resulting cognitive dissonance should be (and invariably eventually is) intolerable. I was making this point because of what impressed me about your post as vastly overgeneralized and divorced from reality.

Here some links:

http://www.amazon.com/Destined-Witness-Growing-Black-Germany/dp/0060959614

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9848505/Hans-Massaquoi.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Massaquoi

http://lernen-aus-der-geschichte.de/Lernen-und-Lehren/content/8247

While I was attempting to illustrate the same point with that second example, one can be much less excused to not know about Moslims serving the German Extermination-machinery for several reasons:

a) Black people in Germany at the time where a rarity. Estimates are around 20,000 (out of about 65,000,000). Therefore, most people remain unaware.

b) Although I’m not sure how many ‘homegrown’ Muslims existed in Germany at the time, some significant recruitment's were done within the European (probably also Arabian) Muslim communities and several ten-thousands served in various units within the SS.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Waffen_Mountain_Division_of_the_SS_Handschar_%281st_Croatian%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_Waffen_Mountain_Division_of_the_SS_Skanderbeg_%281st_Albanian%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffen-SS_foreign_volunteers_and_conscripts

This is of course very inconvenient to remember - and the existence of the more active worshipers of the nazi delusions with the Muslim community at the time is usually denied and even more so the

This list is by no means complete and it seems that it was rather successfully exploiting historical differences and animosities. Hitlers machinery had a steady hunger for the gullible willing to do to the dirty work as knowledgeable locals and in a wider sense as tool of the final goal of exterminating what the deluded minds hallucinated to be the root of all evil: Jews and Slavs.

Insofar Muslim were plausible ally's and the then Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Amin al-Husseini [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Amin_al-Husayni] consequently tried to form a more lasting coalition with Hitler. However, not only did the ‘Grandest leader of all times’ in Germany start having more and more troubles on a much grander scale, he also did not like the whole thing so much in the end and the number of volunteers where just not exciting enough.

After the war the ‘favor’ was returned thousandfold by the King of Egypt and later Nassar. (For starters: http://www.expatica.com/nl/news/news_focus/Nile-Nazis_-Egypt-haven-for-German-war-criminals-_49361.html (much more can be told about the involvement of German war criminals in the Egyptian post war weapons production.))

This should suffice as attempt to illustrate that reality is usually much more complex then: “Here in Europe [...]”.

However, for the point I was trying to make that one can be ‘member’ of ‘tribes’ with conflicting ideas, this is all irrelevant.

Cheers, L