Blacks in Nazi camps

Let down at the row of animals, many black prisoners perished in the Nazi camps

DR Nkamany Kabamba, MD& Writer [Alhadeff Victor] Review of the Book[1]

Noirs dans les camps nazis

Serge Bilé

Éditions du Rocher à Monaco

LE SERPENT A PLUMES 2005

ISBN 2 268 05301 6

Bilé Serge devoted a documentary about the Blacks in the Nazi camps, by giving the word to survivors.

Was Namibia: The « homeland » of Nazi camps?

We know that the first concentration camps were built in Namibia in 1904, to exterminate Namibian Héréros

There were camps with similar architecture in Konzentrationslager[2] like those of the Nazi will set up later in 1933: hutments out of wooden, barbed iron wire, tattooed deportees, rachitic, obliged to work in a very hard way. There was no crematorium; the Namibian Héréros were directly hung.

Medical experiments were led by the well-known acting Doctor Hoegen Fischer, who will have later a henchman Joseph Menguele, the future torturer of Auschwitz.

One finds in Namibia a second important creature, confirming thus that all began in Namibia; it is Goëring, the governor of Namibia, and father of the future henchman of Hitler.

Mister Serge Bilé, in addition, says laws of Nuremberg[3] (an important step toward the Nazi goal to exterminate all Jews), which one always thought that they were written for the Jews, but they also aimed and especially the Blacks in Nazi camps.

Where Blacks came from and how they are there?

All the deportees found in Auschwitz are Jews, Blacks, and Mulattoes (Kalado), Mauthausen (e.g. An Equatorial Guinean Carlos Grekey and African-American Lionel Romney), Guelowar (e.g. Leopold Cedar Senghor), Lauren (e.g. Josef Nassy, native of a Jewish father and a Surinam mother), Dachau (e.g. Congolese mulatto John Vosté), etc. "Between 10,000 and 30,000 Blacks were off-set during the Second World War", Serge Bilé assumes.

The author collected testimonies of the last survivors and witnesses, in Europe, in Africa, in the United States, and in the Antilles. These men and these women "are not exterminated in a systematic way". According to the logic of Hitler, the Blacks are between the men and animals, between the Jews, and monkeys. "In the camps, one regards them as animals; they are there to do the dirtiest work, humiliating, lowering them more than the other deportees".

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[1] I was a victim of these "Laws of Nuremberg" in Belgian Congo. Indeed, in Tielen St. Jacques (Belgian Congo), when I was forced to change my Alhadeff Victor (Haim) name, my booklet of baptism carried: The nationality of the father and mine “Jude”. I continue to undergo consequences to have had a Jewish father whom I am proud of.

[2] Konzentrationslager is a Namibian mosaic people of Ovambo, Kavango, Nama or Héréros.

[3] Laws of Nuremberg/Step 1: On September 15, 1935, at the Nuremberg NSDAP party convention, new laws which embodied Hitler's racial visions in Mein Kampf were passed. Hitler used the law to effectively remove Jews from public life. Step 2: The Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor, Gesetz zum Schultz des deutschen Blutes und der deutschen Ehre, forbade marriage and sexual contact between Jews and Aryan. Step 3: The Law for the Protection of Genetic Health of the German People soon followed (e. g. Race Laws 1: Jews whose first names did not sound "Jewish" had to add "Israel" or "Sarah" to their names. Passports and identity cards were marked with a "J" for Jude).