Tag: World War ll
The Medic of Omaha Beach – Waverly Woodson’s 30 Hours of...
The facts, then. On June 6, 1944, a 21-year-old Black medic named Waverly Woodson stepped onto Omaha Beach. His landing craft had been hit...
Job Maseko – How a Gold Miner Sank a German Ship...
Job Maseko was born around 1922 in KwaThema, a township in Springs, South Africa. He worked in the gold mines. When war came, he...
The Children They Tried to Erase: The Nazi Sterilisation of Afro-German...
In 1937, Nazi Germany launched a secret sterilisation programme targeting mixed-race children in the Rhineland. These were the children of German women and Black...
