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- Brown Babies is a term used for children born to black soldiers and white women during and after the Second World War. Other names include "war babies" and "occupation babies." In Germany they were known as Mischlingskinder ("mixed-race children"), a term first used under the Nazi regime for children of mixed Jewish-German parentage.
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Jun 3, 2021 · Most Brown Babies in Germany were raised by their mothers or grandparents, while others remained in orphanages or adopted by Danish parents.
Brown Babies is a term used for children born to black soldiers and white women during and after the Second World War. Other names include " war babies " and "occupation babies." In Germany they were known as Mischlingskinder ("mixed-race children"), a term first used under the Nazi regime for children of mixed Jewish-German parentage . [1]
Oct 13, 2009 · For many of the now-adult children of white German women and African-American GIs, adopted by families in the United States after World War II, the search for the truth has been difficult. Online...
Jan 4, 2021 · These fascinating and moving stories form the heart of Lucy’s book Britain’s ‘Brown Babies’: The stories of children born to black GIs and white women in the Second World War (MUP, 2019) as...
brown babies, the offspring of white European women and African American soldiers during and immediately after World War II (1939–45). At that time the term brown babies was popularized in the African American press, which published a series of human interest stories on the topic.
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Adopted at age 2 by African American couple. Out of the approximately 95,000 U.S. Occupation babies born in Germany shortly after WWII, there were approximately 5000 of us, Post WWII Afro-German children or so-called Negro mulatto babies, better known in the United States as Germany’s “Brown Babies.”.
Nov 19, 2011 · Forgotten history: Germany's 'brown babies' — Children born to white German women and fathered by African-American GIs in occupied Germany were often put up for adoption.
