Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany

A respected journalist and veteran of the Civil Rights Movement offers a telling chronicle of his fascinating experiences during the Holocaust describing his survival as a black youth in Nazi Germany in the midst of racial hatred and daily danger. True story – autobiography

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A respected journalist and veteran of the Civil Rights Movement offers a telling chronicle of his fascinating experiences during the Holocaust describing his survival as a black youth in Nazi Germany in the midst of racial hatred and daily danger.

This is a story of the unexpected.In Destined to Witness Hans Massaquoi has crafted a beautifully rendered memoir — an astonishing true tale of how he came of age as a black child in Nazi Germany. The son of a prominent African and a German nurse Hans remained behind with his mother when Hitler came to power due to concerns about his fragile health after his father returned to Liberia. Like other German boys Hans went to school; like other German boys he swiftly fell under the Fuhrer’s spell. So he was crushed to learn that as a black child he was ineligible for the Hitler Youth. His path to a secondary education and an eventual profession was blocked. He now lived in fear that at any moment he might hear the Gestapo banging on the door — or Allied bombs falling on his home. Ironic moving and deeply human Massaquoi’s account of this lonely struggle for survival brims with courage and intelligence.

Hans J. Massaquoi emigrated to the United States in the early 1950s. He served in the U.S. Army and then became a journalist for Johnson Publishing where he was managing editor of Ebony magazine. He was an active participant in the civil rights movement. The father of two sons Hans lives with his wife Katherine in New Orleans Louisiana. – Publisher
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480 pages

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