| 词条 | Brown Babies |
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GermanyThe postwar years in Europe brought new challenges, including numerous illegitimate children born from unions between occupying soldiers and native women. Often the military discouraged fraternization with the locals and any proposed marriages. As an occupying power, the United States military discouraged its forces from fraternizing with Germans. Under any circumstances, soldiers had to get permission of commanding officers in order to marry overseas. As inter-racial marriages were illegal in most of the United States in the era, commanding officers of the U.S. soldiers forced many such couples to split up, or at least prevented their marriages. Under German law, illegitimate children became wards of the state. Orphanages and foster parents were paid small stipends to care for abandoned children.[6] After losing their American partners when soldiers were reassigned out of Germany, many single German mothers often had difficulty finding support for their children in the postwar nation. There was discrimination against blacks, as they were identified with the resented occupying forces. Still, a 1951 article in Jet noted that most mothers did not give up their "brown babies." Some Germans fostered or adopted such children; one German woman established a home for thirty "brown babies."[6] In the decade after the end of the war, numerous illegitimate mixed-race children were put up for adoption. Some were placed with African-American military families in Germany and the United States.[7] By 1968, Americans had adopted about 7,000 "brown babies."[7] Many of the "brown babies" did not learn of their ethnic German ancestry until they reached adulthood.[8] At that time, many such descendants began to search for both their parents. Some have returned to Germany to meet their mothers, if they could trace them. Since the late 20th century, there has been new interest in their stories as part of continuing review of the war and postwar years. Representation in media
These mixed race children were viewed as “a human and racial problem,” placing the blame for any upheaval they might cause on the children themselves, as opposed to the larger German community that could not accept them.[11] One of the ways German society saw to deal with these children was to send them abroad. This movement was motivated by the reasoning that these Occupation Babies would face insurmountable hostility in their home country. This hostility resulted in part from common resentment of enemy occupation forces, prejudice towards the mothers of these children, and prejudice related to colonial ideologies of race theory and inferiority of the black race.[12] In 1951, the United States recognized these Afro-German children as orphan children under the Displaced Person’s Act of 1948. That year, the first Afro-German child was adopted by Margaret E. Butler in Chicago. This transnational adoption was significant because these children had been objectified based on little more than their racial classification. Many Germans wanted to export the children of occupiers to help them avoid racism and to find more of a home in a country with a history of many people of African descent, even though they were segregated in the South. Ultimately, these babies served as a metaphor for blacks to assert themselves in both the European and American contexts.[13]} See also{{Portal|Germany|African American|Military history}}
References1. ^ Indianapolis Recorder 2. ^Camp & Grosse, p. 61. 3. ^Kleinschmidt, Johannes. http://www.lpb-bw.de/publikationen/besatzer/us-pol6.htm "Amerikaner und Deutsche in der Besatzungszeit - Beziehungen und Probleme" 4. ^Wynn, Neil A. "'Race War': Black American GIs and West Indians in Britain During The Second World War", Immigrants & Minorities 24 (3), 2006, pp. 324–346. {{doi|10.1080/02619280701337146}}. 5. ^Lee, Sabine. "A Forgotten Legacy of the Second World War: GI children in post-war Britain and Germany," Contemporary European History 20, pp. 157–181. 2001. {{doi|10.1017/S096077731100004X}}. 6. ^1 "Brown Babies Adopted By Kind German Families," Jet, 8 November 1951. Vol. 1, No. 2. [https://books.google.com/books?id=I0MDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA15&dq=Jet+Magazine+%22Brown+babies%22+Germany&hl=en&ei=2gvMTrSjHOSU2AWHu7y5Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CE0Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false 15]. Retrieved from Google Books on November 22, 2011. {{ISSN|0021-5996}}. 7. ^1 2 "'Brown babies' long search for family, identity", CNN, 20 November 2011. Retrieved on November 22, 2011. 8. ^1 Desmond-Harris, Jenée. ""German 'Brown Babies' Search for Their Roots" {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111122134415/http://www.theroot.com/buzz/german-brown-babies-search-their-roots |date=November 22, 2011 }}, The Root, 21 November 2011. Retrieved on November 22, 2011 9. ^http://brownbabiesfilm.com/about-the-film/ 10. ^Morris, Jamie Christopher, "The black experience in postwar Germany" (2012). Honors Scholar Theses. Paper 224. http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/srhonors_theses/224 11. ^{{cite book|last1=Oguntoye|first1=Katharina|last2=Opitz|first2=May|last3=Shultz|first3=Dagmar|title=Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out.|date=1992|publisher=Amherst: U of Massachusetts|pages=81–82}} 12. ^{{cite book|last1=Oguntoye|first1=Katharina|last2=Opitz|first2=May|last3=Shultz|first3=Dagmar|title=Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Speak Out|publisher=Amherst: U of Massachusetts|pages=81–82}} 13. ^{{cite book|last1=Lemke Muniz de Faria|first1=Yara-Colette|title=Germany's 'Brown Babies' Must be Helped! Will you? |work=US Adoption Plans for Afro-German Children, 1950-155|date=2003|publisher=Charles H. Rowell}}
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