Watch: 'Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany' - Hans J. Massaquoi's Story
"Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany" is based on the biography of the same name by Hans-Jürgen Massaquoi, former Managing Editor of Ebony Magazine, who was born in Germany in 1926 to Bertha Nikodijevic, a German nurse, and Al-Haj Massaquoi, son of the Liberian Consul General in Hamburg, Germany. It seems the book was first published (in English, anyway) in 1999 and was so popular in Germany, where it was entitled "Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger" ("Negro, Negro, Chimney Sweep") that the autobiography remained on top of the bestselling list of the German weekly news magazine, Der Spiegel, for a couple of...
- 7/28/2014
- by Wendy Okoi-Obuli
- ShadowAndAct
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