Photo of BLACK German Solider?!?!?!

[Tyler Ramsey]

I found this photo a few months ago on ebay but it was sold in a big lot and i did not have enough money to buy it Is this a photo of a black German Solider? What do you think??? Did they ever have Black Soliders in the Afrika Korps, or even the Heer???

[Tyler Ramsey]

without circle

[Rick Research]

Nope: very, very VERY bad boiled lobster sunburn.

See the top of his head where the cap covered his skin up along his hairline?

[Tyler Ramsey]

How could he have gotten such a sun burn and why would he be marching while he has a very bad sunburn?

[Kai-Steffen M.]

staying too long in the sun maybe?
and marching he is because sunburn is no excuse that would back than be accepted for NOT marching- that was the 40s - guys were tougher than today you can bet! moremad


Gruß,
KSM

[Rick Research]

1917

Farm laborers and soldiers develop very specific "tan" patterns. The four guys on the right show the "head and arms covered, open collar" burn quite plainly.

It's like being able to tell who DRIVES now for a living from having an over-tanned left arm at the window side.

[Rick Research]

Of course, Imperial Guys Know Everything

© Charles Woolley "German Uniforms, Insignia & Equipment, 1918-1923" Schiffer Books, 2002, p. 120

This photo was very likely MISidentified at the time:

I am unaware of ANY East African Askaris being sent to Germany in 1919 with the repatriated Schutztruppen.

This Kraftfahrtruppen Unteroffizier, wearing insignia of the Kavallerie-Schützen Division, was probably an African subject resident in Germany when the war started. the FIRST war.

Some time ago over in Imperial, a Chinese soldier in a German cavalry regiment in WW1 came up.

While the Nazis blurred lines with their racist policies for Asians, they would not allow Black troops.

[Glenn2438]

Wego Chiang

Here is the then Fahnenjunker-Unteroffizier Wego Chiang, the son of General Chiang Kai-Chek who performed his military apprenticeship in I./Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 98 at Germisch-Partenkirchen in 1937-1939 being commissioned as a Leutnant before returning to China at the outbreak of the war. His father having been impressed by Generaloberst von Seeckt and General von Falkenhausen sent him to Germany for his military education. He became a General and eventual commander in chief of the Taiwanese forces.

Regards
Glenn

[McCulloh]

No, according to Littlejohn's Foreign legions of the third Reich, there was a Milece member, who was a Black African, who was not inducted into the SS when the Milece retreated into Germany in 1944. I think that he was put into a local Wehrmacht battalion and ended up in a Volksturm unit.
There's a new book about the experiences of a number of Balck africans in the Third reich-a couple of whom served in Wehrmacht auxillery units of one form or another.

[SOLDAT1]

black troops in heer

Here are some photos I found in my collection of what appears to be a dark skinned soldier maybe of Turkish origin?

Robert

[SOLDAT1]

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[Tyler Ramsey]

Yes they kinda look Turkish, or maybe there just from southern Germany?

[Sebastian G.]

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