Black Nazis II! Ethnic Minorities and Foreigners in Hitler's Armed Forces: An Unbiased History by Kuzniar-Clark Veronica

Author:Kuzniar-Clark, Veronica [Kuzniar-Clark, Veronica]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Vera Icona Publishers
Published: 2014-10-12T21:00:00+00:00

FIGURE 22. A photo of Sam, an African American medical student who served under Franz Wimmer-Lamquet in Tanganyika and later on in Greece. Courtesy of the Antonio Muñoz Collection.7*

While Ottley thought Hitler was insensitive toward Wright, Hitler was nevertheless supportive of Wright’s choice to study at a prestigious German university. As Lusane indicated, it is impossible to verify the veracity of Hitler’s actual statements, but it is incredible that this meeting even took place. Since Hitler called Africans “definitely third-class people,” according to Ottley, it seems all the more incredible that he took time to meet with this man. He gave Dr. Wright an autographed picture of himself and told him to “stop in and see him when he next visited Munich.”257 Thus, while Hitler was callous in his words, he seems to have acted differently.

While many historians have argued that Hitler only did this sort of thing in order to accommodate international public opinion, this same argument may be applied to the superficially “good” treatment of blacks and other ethnic minorities in America, France, Britain, Japan, and Italy at the time. Gerald Horne’s research leaves no doubt that Japan, Britain, New Zealand, America, and Australia were guilty of accommodating domestic and international non-white public opinion for the sake of preserving or boosting their international reputations. None of these nations, according to Horne, were entirely genuine about their “goodness.” The real question here is whether any decent treatment of ethnic minorities and non-whites in Western nation-states was genuine, but that is beyond the scope of this study.

Ottley also reported, “[Hitler] offered the opinion that Negroes could not have much backbone, because they consistently allowed the whites to ‘lynch them, beat them, segregate them, without rising up against their oppressors’”!258 Hitler’s contempt for blacks was clearly based on ignorance, prejudice, and the idea that blacks had not earned a favorable racial review due to their supposed subservience. This quote proves Hitler’s ignorance of black resistance as opposed to any personal hatred he may have felt or exhibited, or even racism per se. He never knew any blacks, so he was not in a position to judge them. His views of Wright and other blacks, two of whom he expressed personal admiration,259 were based entirely on German racial stereotypes of blacks.

There was little opportunity for blacks in America at the time, and education did little to improve opportunities for advancement. Hitler might have said all this to jab at American duplicity, since antiGerman sentiment was rampant in America at the time. Then again, Hitler may have used this meeting to expose the truth about racial apartheid in America (while silently excusing his own plan for institutional apartheid against Jews).

Indeed, such a meeting seems unbelievable given that Jesse Owens was allegedly “snubbed” by Hitler at the 1936 Olympic Games. While this particular allegation was finally challenged by some historians, who asserted that Cornelius Johnson was the first black athlete to win a gold medal and thus the only possible one who could have

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