Ive readed some stuff that on the olympics of 1936 the americans despised black athlets like Jesse owens but the germans did not really care and even cheeared him a lot when he winned the medals, is that true?
Edit: Just to clarify, ive watched an movie on class today about jesse owens and the 1936 olyimpics, i got curious and searched a little about it, and there was stuff saying that the german audience did not at all shunned the black athlets during the olyimpics, with was something very common in the US. I would like to know if its true or not.
I don’t know about the specific instance you’re talking about, but to the more general “less racist” question the answer is; not at all
It was just about the same level of racism, if not technically worse because the Nazis acted on that racism.
Yes, thank you for the link.
I do think that black people were less of a triggering, hot-button issue for rank and file Nazis in Germany just because they had less of a presence, while American KKKs were in close proximity to a lot of them and thus they became their sole focus. Like, when you think of KKK you think of hating black people, but the KKK hates other races too–they hate Jews, for example, but you only think of Jews first regarding Nazis.
I wouldn’t say that Amerikkka didn’t “act” on their racism, but it was certainly not as extreme as the holocaust (although it lasted for far longer)
I think a lot of it was around the comparison Jesse Owens made regarding his treatment and that of other black athletes during and after the Olympics in Germany vs the US. In the Olympics all athletes are supposed to to be treated equally under the rules whether Germany wanted to or not; while after the Olympics back in the US he and other black members of the Olympic team weren’t even permitted to use the front entrance at their hotels or reception events.
I think it more accurately shows how barbaric the US race laws were and are as opposed to portraying the Germans in any better light.
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They were quite brutal toward africans in the colonies, esp with regard to cotton, compared to other Euro neocolonies because the regions they purchased were “less developed” (ie. didn’t have cash crop infrastructure). Efforts to force indigenous africans to grow cash crops were met with rebellions which the Germans attempted to put down with extreme violence, but were cut short by the end of WW2.
They also wanted to clear out land in the colonies to create work camps for ghettoized minorities in Germany, but these efforts were unsuccessful, which led to the conversion of concentration camps to death camps when it became clear that extermination through profitable forced labor was off the table.
German policy toward local people with african heritage differed because the population was considered to be too small to bother with. But this basically meant local officials were free to create their own policies toward that section of ‘untermensch’ at their own discretion. Afro-Germans were sterilized en-masse and, famously, thousands of black frenchmen were executed in POW camps while white soldiers were spared.
“Less racist” would be argued by the Roma people who had thousands gassed at Auschwitz and many more executed on site.
Expecifically talking about rascism against black people, ive said it in my post twice dude.
If Nazis racist towards Jews and Roma, what would be the justification for thinking they had a soft spot for black people? I also did not know racism came in degrees except in liberal circles.
I also did write on my coment about the 1936 olympics stuff that i wanted to clarify. Jesse owens himself critisized the US because even nazi germany treated him less worse then his own country. I dont trust the info on the front page of the internet, so i asked here because i trust this place.
