Rhineland bastard
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Rhineland bastard was a derogatory term used in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany to describe children born of mixed-race relationships between German women and black African men of the French Army
Young Rhinelander who was classified as a bastard and hereditarily unfit under the Nazi regime
"Brutality, Bestiality, Equality" on a German postcard, in juxtaposition to the official French motto of "Liberté, égalité, fraternité", sent in January 1923. A Senegalese man of the French Army is represented alongside a Czech soldier.
Occupation of the Rhineland
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The Occupation of the Rhineland placed the region of Germany west of the Rhine river and four bridgeheads to its east under the control of the victorious Allies of World War I from 1 December 1918 unt
Rhineland bastard
…children born of mixed-race relationships between German women and black African men of the French Army who were stationed in the Rhineland during its occupation by France after World War I. The term "Rhineland bastard" can be traced to 1919, just after World War I, when Entente troops, most of them French…
French soldiers at Ehrenbreitstein Fortress watching over the Deutsches Eck, 1929
Paul Tirard, the French chairman of the Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commission
Henry T. Allen, commander-in-chief of the American occupation army in the Rhineland
French troops entering Essen during the occupation of the Ruhr