Talk:Destined to Witness

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NAZI policy to exterminate all non-Aryans?

"Considering this and the Nazi’s obsession to exterminate all non-Aryans, it is almost unbelievable that Hans Massaquoi had never suffered serious persecution"

I seriously doubt that the NAZI had a plan to exterminate all non-Ayrans. Hitler's elite Waffen-SS unit for instance employed whole divisions of non-aryans. I also never heard of any Hitler order to search for and round up all blacks Rommel could find during the North Africa campaign. To sum it up: can anybody provide a source for such a claim or is it just wild speculation on part of the author?

From what I understand the NAZIs essentially employed a racial segregation policy towards blacks which shunned them from membership in certain organization and most importantly didn't allow them to date white Germans. But other than in case of the Jews there never was an intent to exterminate all blacks.

I don't think they wanted to exterminate all non-aryans worldwide, but they surely wanted to do so in Germany. Black people in Germany were mostly sterilized. -- 62.178.137.27 (talk) 16:32, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Neger

I deleted the following part of the article: " Until the 1970s they were called Neger (negro), and it was not considered derogatory."

"Neger" has always been a derogatory term, as you can read in the German Wikipedia entry: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neger . Before racialism became popular, people with black skin were generally called "Mohr". Not all German-speakers are aware of that fact and some think that "Neger" wasn't originally derogatory, but that's wrong.

"When immigration from Africa grew, discussion about the “N word” grew as well." I don't think there is any proof for this claim.

"Today people from black Africa are called Africans, omitting the fact that Arabs also live on the African continent." There is no generally accepted term (and, sadly enough, many still say "Neger"). -- 62.178.137.27 (talk) 16:27, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

"Neger" is the same as English "negro". The difference is, that for most people in Germany a "Neger" was something very exotic. I'm not sure if that is racism already ... 62.47.35.131 (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 11:21, 8 November 2008 (UTC).

Merge

I suggest merging Hans J. Massaquoi with Destined to Witness; neither article really stands without the other. --jpgordon^{::==( o )} 16:29, 13 July 2010 (UTC)