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Rhineland Bastard

Rhineland Bastard ((ドイツ語: Rheinlandbastard)) was a derogatory term used in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany to describe Afro-German children of mixed German and African parentage, who were fathered by Africans serving as French colonial troops occupying the Rhineland after World War I. Under Nazism's racial theories, these children were considered inferior to Aryans and consigned to compulsory sterilization.
==History==
The term "Rhineland Bastard" can be traced back to 1919, just after World War I, when Entente troops, most of them French, occupied the Rhineland.〔"Black Germans" in Prem Poddar, Rajeev Patke and Lars Jensen, ''Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and its Colonies'', Edinburgh University Press, 2008.〕 A relatively high number of German women married soldiers from the occupying forces, while many others had children by them out of wedlock (hence the disparaging label "bastards"). The resulting children numbered from 16,000 to 18,000.〔Tina Campt, ''Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich'' (University of Michigan Press, 2004), pp. 21,50 ff.〕 The occupation itself had been regarded as a national disgrace by Germans across the political spectrum, and there was a widespread tendency to consider all forms of collaboration and fraternization with the occupiers as moral (if not legal) treason.
The fact that it was carried out by what were viewed as "B-grade" troops (a notion that itself was drawn from colonial and racial stereotypes) increased the feelings of humiliation.〔Julia Roos, Women's Rights, Nationalist Anxiety, and the "Moral" Agenda in the Early Weimar Republic: Revisiting the "Black Horror" Campaign against France's African Occupation Troops. ''Central European History,'' 42 (September 2009), 473–508.〕 In the Rhineland itself, local opinion of the troops was very different, and the soldiers were described as "courteous and often popular", possibly because French colonial soldiers harbored less ill-will towards Germans than war-weary French occupiers.
In ''Mein Kampf'', Hitler described children resulting from marriages to African occupation soldiers as a contamination of the white race "by Negro blood on the Rhine in the heart of Europe."〔Robert B. Downs, ''Books That Changed the World'' (Signet Classic, 2004), p. 325.〕 He thought that "Jews were responsible for bringing Negroes into the Rhineland, with the ultimate idea of bastardizing the white race which they hate and thus lowering its cultural and political level so that the Jew might dominate."〔Adolf Hitler, (''Mein Kampf'' (translated by James Murphy, February, 1939) ) Vol. I, Chapter XI (A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook)〕 He also implied that this was a plot on the part of the French, since the population of France was being increasingly "negrified".〔Adolf Hitler, (''Mein Kampf,'' Vol. II, chapter XIII )〕

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