How Did Nazi Use Racial Propaganda To Justify Their Fascist Attitudes Towards Black People

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1. The Nazi’s used racial propaganda to justify their Fascist attitudes towards African/Black peoples during the 1930s and 40s. The use of posters, cartoons, and “an extra-ordinary commemorative coin” showed how the Germans felt towards the use of Black soldiers in the war. The drawings were used to express the “sexual character” of the Germans character. The Germans believed that all the Black soldiers were doing was raping their women due to the amount of “Rhineland Bastards” and “Schwarze Schande” being born. Rhineland Bastards were the biracial children of the Allied occupation of the Rhineland after WWI and the Schwarze Schande, the Black Shame were the children from the voluntary sexual encounters and relationships between German women and the Black soldiers. …show more content…
Also the biracial children that were identified as Rhineland Bastards were “forcibly taken to nearby hospitals and sterilized” to make sure they would not be able to “pollute the Aryan gene pool. Also as more Blacks came under the Nazi rule, the Black soldiers were often “singled out for punishment and direct contravention of the Geneva Accords.” It was evident that the Blacks were treated differently from other enemies of the state. Altogether, the treatment of African/Black people by the Nazi and German government was wrong and