*Black People – Reclaiming Memories* is a belated examination of the records. Soon after the Second World War, Afro-German children were born in post-war Germany: children of white German women and Black soldiers in the US Army.
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Politicians and the authorities declared these children to be a problem and ensured that many of them did not grow up with their families, but were placed in care homes or sent abroad.
Many of these life stories began in West Berlin, but also in Frankfurt am Main, Mannheim and Stuttgart – throughout the American sphere of influence. To this day, this part of Germany’s post-war history has scarcely been researched.
What began as biographical research in *Unauthorized* and *Unverschämt* (Sophiensæle, 2024), Simone Dede Ayivi & Kompliz*innen are now expanding into an investigation of institutional racism in the early Federal Republic of Germany. How was something like this possible after the end of Nazism – and how do we find a language that is considerate towards those affected, yet unsparingly critical of a largely indifferent society?
*Black People* examines how we currently deal with the history of bureaucratic violence: the lack of transparency, institutional inertia and the emotional strain on those who, even after decades, are still denied access to the files.
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November 2026
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