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Lebensgeschichte im Buch verarbeitet

Thursday, 10 March 2011 12:05 Written by rosepena 0 Comments

Gert Schramm

Gert Schramm wird Eberswalde auf der Leipziger Buchmesse vertreten. Der 82-Jährige hat seine Lebensgeschichte aufgeschrieben. „Wer hat Angst vorm schwarzen Mann – Mein Leben in Deutschland“, so der Titel der Autobiografie, die der Aufbau-Verlag ab 12. März in die Buchläden bringen wird.

Die Idee zum Buch hatte Gert Schramm schon vor mehr als drei Jahren. „Irgendwann ist niemand mehr da, der über die Nazi-Zeit und den Neubeginn nach Kriegsende etwas erzählen kann“, sagt der 82-Jährige bescheiden. „Der zweite Grund für mein Buch. Ich wollte etwas tun gegen den wiederauflebenden Nazismus. Ich möchte vor allem die Jugend warnen, solchen Ideologien auf den Leim zu gehen“, fügt er hinzu. 2008 hatte er deshalb angefangen, aufzuschreiben, wie sein Leben bisher verlaufen war. Mehr als 1000 handschriftliche Blätter waren schließlich zusammengekommen. Aus dem umfangreichen Material entstand ein Manuskript, das Gert Schramm seinem Buchenwaldkameraden Götz Dieckmann und dessen Frau zum Lesen gab. Beide befanden die Geschichte für gut. So kam es, dass Gert Schramm seine Biografie an mehrere Verlage verschickte. Vier meldeten sich zurück, darunter der Aufbau-Verlag, der den Eberswalder Autor bereits zur Buchmesse in Leipzig eingeladen hat. Dort wird der 82-Jährige sein Erstlingswerk am 17. März persönlich vorstellen. Die Eberswalder können das Buch schon am 11. März in der Brasserie am Stein kennenlernen. Dort liest Gert Schramm auf Einladung von Buchhändlerin Brigitte Puppe-Mahler.

Zu erzählen hat der 82-Jährige jede Menge. Als Kind eines schwarzen Amerikaners und einer Deutschen hat sich ihm das dunkelste Kapitel deutscher Geschichte nachhaltig eingeprägt. Über seinen Vater weiß er nur, dass er Jack Brankson hieß und aus Kalifornien stammte. Er war Ingenieur für Stahlhochbau und 1927 als Vertragsarbeiter einer amerikanischen Firma nach Erfurt gekommen, die den Auftrag hatte, eine Eisenbahnbrücke zu bauen. Schramms Mutter arbeitete zu dieser Zeit als gelernte Schneiderin im Geschäft ihres Vaters. „Dort sind sich meine Eltern begegnet. Es muss wohl Liebe auf den ersten Blick gewesen sein“, sagt Gert Schramm. Im November 1928 erblickte er das Licht der Welt. An seine Kindheit hat er nur gute Erinnerung. „Ich war der ganze Stolz meiner Familie“, sagt er.

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Hitler’s Forgotten Holocaust Victims

Sunday, 19 December 2010 14:11 Written by rosepena 0 Comments

Afro German girl in the 1930s

Like many West European nations, Germany established colonies in Africa in the late 1800s in what later became Togo, Cameroon, Namibia, and Tanzania.

German genetic experiments began there, most notably involving prisoners taken from the 1904 Heroro Massacre that left 60,000 Africans dead, following a 4-year revolt against German colonisation. After the crushing defeat Germany received in World War I, it was stripped of its African colonies in 1918.

As a spoil of war, the French were allowed to occupy Germany in the Rhineland – a bitter fought piece of land that has gone back and forth between the two nations for centuries. The French willfully deployed their own colonised African soldiers as the occupying force.

Germans viewed this as the final insult of World War I, and, soon thereafter, 92% of them voted in the Nazi party.

Hundreds of the African Rhineland-based soldiers intermarried with German women and raised their children as Black Germans. In Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote about his plans for these “Rhineland Bastards”. When he came to power, one of his first directives was aimed at these mixed-race children.

Underscoring Hitler’s obsession with racial purity, by 1937, every identified mixed-race child in the Rhineland had been forcibly sterilized, in order to prevent further “race polluting”, as Hitler termed it. Read Full Article Here…

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Blacks were forerunners of the Holocaust

Thursday, 02 December 2010 20:28 Written by rosepena 0 Comments

Before the Jews, there were the Africans

: Hans Jürgen Massaquoi

American Jews tell their story of survival, pain, and tragedy regarding Germany’s horrendous mass genocide known as the Holocaust. But more often than not, the story of those Black Africans brutalized and experimented on in Nazi Germany fall by the wayside, as if burned to ash in the fires of Hitler’s secret past. Before the German tyrant Adolf Hitler mobilized his deviant and apparently bewitched Nazi soldiers to attempt to exterminate European Jews, records show that he tested his inhumane tactics on Germans of African descent.

Clarence Lusane, author of “Hitler’s Black Victims,” (a historical compilation of the events and philosophies surrounding the Holocaust) suggests African people were used in preparation for the Jewish Holocaust.

From 1904 to 1907, Germany engaged in a war against the Herero people of Southwest Africa. Although the Herero attempted to live peaceably with Germany, which occupied various parts of Southwest Africa, foreign soldiers constantly provoked them by raping their women, and stealing and lynching those who protested against their acts. As a result, a massive Herero revolt took place, initiating a years long war.

Germany sent over one of their most brutal, bloodthirsty war assassins, Lt. Gen. Lother von Trotha. In his attacks, he killed any Herero people in his path and banished the remaining population to the then Omaheke Desert. He also ordered his troops to poison the water supplies to the desert. By the end of the bloodbath, the Herero population had been cut from 80,000 to 15,000.

The remaining Herero who fell into the hands of Germans were then sent off to concentration camps, where they endured barbaric treatment and eventually death. “In the camps, the Herero were subjected to medical experiments including sterilization and injections of smallpox, typhus, and tuberculosis,” Lusane writes. “This type of experimentation can be seen as a testing ground for later medical procedures that would be used against Blacks, Jews, Gypsies, and others during the Nazi Holocaust.”

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I WILL Speak German!

Sunday, 31 October 2010 18:43 Written by rosepena 0 Comments

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OUR ROOTS – Black History Past, Present and Future By Tayo Fatunla

Thursday, 25 February 2010 17:41 Written by rosepena 0 Comments

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