Being Black In Hitler’s Germany

Seventy-five years ago this month, Afro-German Esther Anumu Fordham landed in the USA after surviving life in Nazi Germany. However, far from feeling safe in the “Land of Opportunity” she was confronted by the lynchings of Blacks in Post-War America.
At times she said she wanted to return to Germany, where she’d lived through Hitler’s oppressive rule and the Allied bombing of her home city of Hamburg where she was born. In a bitter irony for Esther, life under Hitler - where Blacks were segregated - still felt better than what lay ahead in the US. She tried to settle after marrying an American soldier, but moved back to Germany twenty years later. In a recorded testimony from the mid-‘90s, she gives a snapshot of her incredible life during the tumultuous first half of the 20th century.