But the leading role belongs to Negro blood. Its drops are slowly falling over Europe, a long-since dried-up land that can scarcely breathe. Is that perhaps the cloud that looks so black on the horizon but whose fearsome downpours are capable of so white a shine? [Claire Goll’s] The Negro Jupiter Robs Europe [Der Neger Jupiter raubt Europa] is the name of a modern German novel just now coming out. The Negro question is pressing for our entire civilization. It runs like this: Do the Negroes need us? Or are we not sooner in need of them? Robert W. “The Black Experience During the Holocaust.” In The Holocaust and History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined, edited by Michael Berenbaum and Abraham J. Peck, 358-365. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. (D 804.18 .H66 1998) Reviews the treatment Blacks received under the Nazis. Describes the expression of racism in Germany from the early twentieth century through the war years, and traces how racial discrimination grew from ostracism to outright persecution, forced sterilization, and murder. Also summarizes the situation many Blacks, including prisoners of war, faced in Nazi concentration camps and Gestapo prisons. I just wanted to add a little knowledge about German African Americans that had long since occupied Germany before Europeans who was executed along with the Jews, but you won't hear much of that in our history books. But once the blacks were extinct to a point in Germany, then the Holocaust as we know it from our history books began. But not to realize that most black soldiers had children with German women, in which the children were either given up or adoption or killed just like the Jews. So the question I would like to answer is yes the African Americans did put pressure on the German civilization at that time, but African Americans were not needed at that time either. In my opinion, at that time African Americans were even consider a race to them.