| re: Cabaret, Cliff, Ernst and Nazi attitudes to gay people | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 11:09 pm EDT 07/25/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Cabaret, Cliff, Ernst and Nazi attitudes to gay people - KingSpeed 08:25 pm EDT 07/25/24 | |
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| Did I say they were homeless? How many millions of black people, Jewish people, Italian people, Irish people, Asian people, and people from other countries and of different races were not homeless in America but also could not live anywhere they wanted? Of course, that has been true in many other countries, sometimes because of laws and sometimes because people would not rent to them or allow them to buy houses. Ethnic and national minorities in many countries lived in ghettos, in the areas where they could find housing. I know you know this, which is why I don’t understand why you responded as you did. I quote from the linked article. This can be found in Part 2 of the article, “The Weimar Republic: the challenges of live in Germany”: “This lack of a clear citizenship status imposed constraints on Black Germans' everyday lives and their ability to set down roots in Germany. It complicated their chances of finding accommodation, as well as their ability to get married.” Having said that, it is true that, at least during much of the 1920s into the early 1930s, anti-black racism in Germany was generally less severe than in America and conditions were less restrictive. Several black American writers presented, in publications that primarily served black Americans, rather idealized accounts of the lack of prejudice they experienced in Europe generally and in Germany in particular. They emphasized the positive experiences they had, and de-emphasized and sometimes almost certainly decided just not to include in their accounts the negative experiences they had. There is no question that black people in Weimar Germany generally experience real racism, and I’m pretty sure, as mentioned in the quote above, that this would have included housing discrimination. There does seem to have been areas in Berlin and in other German cities where black people, including mixed-race families, tended to live, probably because they couldn’t get housing elsewhere. |
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| Link | Being Black in Nazi German |
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