Rhineland Bastards

German people

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  • Samuel Bak: Smoke
    In Holocaust: Victims of Nazism

    …descent—many of whom, called “Rhineland bastards” by the Nazis, were the offspring of German mothers and French colonial African troops who had occupied the Rhineland after World War I—were also persecuted by the Nazis. Although their victimization was less systematic, it included forced sterilization and, often, internment in concentration…

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