Svarta och judar - vilket ogillar nazisterna mest och varför?

The fifteen year occupation saw the French government making use of a variety of colonial troops including Algerian, Malagasy, Moroccan, Senegalese and Tunisian regiments who were deployed along the left bank of the Rhine and at the bridgeheads of Cologne, Coblenz and Mainz.

The "Black Shame" propagandists portrayed German women as victims, imputing an animal sexuality to the black soldiers, which was attributed to their racial inferiority and primitive nature, traits thereby contrasted to those of the superior white culture. The concept of race, therefore, became strongly sexualised with the idea of white supremacy becoming linked to the idea of "possession" of the white woman.

France the degenerate

Culture, so the eugenic assumption went, provided France with nothing more than a façade; the truth was that France was an example of a European state that had become degenerate, defiled through overly intimate contact with its colonies. The biological degeneration of France implied its cultural degeneration also.

Many European politicians and intellectuals, such as Swedish Prime Minister Hjalmar Branting, the Dutch Baron van Vredenbruch or the British writer Lady Francis Evelyn Warwick, shared the German sense of outrage at the deployment of black soldiers, reports of whose atrocities fanned the flames of indignation. Former Italian Prime Minister Francesco S. Nitti, voiced sentiments shared by many when he claimed that the "Black Shame" was a cultural shame, a shame which disgraced all of Europe.

Nitti was not alone in judging what he saw as the subordination of the highly civilised, advanced German people to the "Negro soldiers" as the ultimate humiliation, an outrageous degradation and violation of Germany by its enemies.

"The cannibal races of yesterday," the Italian claimed, were today standing "in a country that was home to Europe's greatest thinkers."

Judar är ju normala människor som oss och negrer är lika också!