Germany carries on its back huge burdens from the last century: two world wars and two human genocides. As well as a notorious colonial legacy in southern Africa, and a harsh version of dictatorship on the eastern bank of the country.
The term “black shame” emerged into the open, a mixture of both political and racial appeal. The black man, the lowest, was brought to insult Germany's pride and rape its women. In the 1920s, Nazism found in the Black Question a rare mobilization tool against everything from the Weimar government.