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[Doug Millison]

Growing up black in Nazi Germany

CHICAGO (AP) - In 1933, when he was a second-grader in his native
Hamburg, Hans J. Massaquoi wanted to show what a good German he was,
so he cajoled his baby sitter into sewing a swastika onto his
sweater. Massaquoi's mother spotted the Nazi emblem that evening and
promptly snipped it off, but a teacher had already taken a school
yard snapshot of the boy wearing the badge. The other children in the
picture are typical fair-haired north Germans, but young Hans - the
only child with a swastika - is dark-skinned and has kinky hair. The
startling photo appears on the dust jacket of Massaquoi's
autobiography, "Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi
Germany," published in the United States by William Morrow & Company
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