“History has relegated to a footnote, what has happened to black people during the holocaust,” said best selling author and renounced scholar Dr. Firpo Carr, during his guest lecture on the black holocaust on Oct. 26 for the Adewole project.

“It might surprise you to know,” Dr. Carr said to begin his revealing of hidden history, “that the first German concentration camps were in Africa.” During colonial Germany, in West African territory now known as Namibia, tribal groups resisting colonial conquest were incarcerated in concentration camps, during what Dr. Carr calls the first Black Holocaust. “I am quite sure,” he said, “that this is not something well known or talked about at most universities.”

“What happened to Jews in Nazi Germany, first happened in the 1800’s to black people at the hands of Germans,” Dr. Carr said.

The end of World War I and the Treaty of Versailles eventually rendered black people victim of the second Black Holocaust, according to Dr. Carr. During her occupation of Germany, France sent in not her French troops into Germany but her troop of black men from her African colonies. These thousands of exotic-looking black men who found themselves in Germany, with French authoritative positions became a target for annihilation at the rise of the National Socialism rule, along with Jews, homosexuals, gypsies and the disabled, he said.

“But history doesn’t want you to know that, it’s been suppressed” Dr. Carr says referring to the high rank holding black troops in Germany during the 1920’s and the fact that the holocaust greatly victimized black people as well.

In the effort to regain what Germany lost in Africa during World War I, Hitler thought of experimenting on black people for a different reason than on white people, Dr. Carr said. “He wanted to extract the melanin from black people and inject it into his white soldiers so they can deal with the heat, humidity and disease in Africa better when they try taking back German colonies. Incredible,” Dr. Carr exclaimed also noting that there is a great lack of literature on the subject worldwide.

In addition to the documentation that is buried in the dungeon at the Holocaust memorial museum in Washington D.C, Dr. Carr had encountered actual black Holocaust victims, to fortify the existence of the black holocaust. Dr. Carr met Sister K, a black concentration camp survivor who had been experimented on in Dakar, Reverend Jerome Fisher, who went into Dachau and retrieved 25,000 DDT-sprayed rotten bodies, and Lieutenant Colonel Emmett Simmons, a black hero who liberated the thousands of the captives in Dachau, 8000 of them black. “You might have seen ‘Saving Private Ryan,’ did you know that all those individuals who did that were black?” asked Dr. Carr. “They were black truck drivers, it wasn’t Tom Hanks. Hate to disappoint you. See the suppression of history!” he said.

Dr. Carr gives a third example of the suppression of black’s contribution to history: the paperclip project and the experiments on black people on the American front.

The United States government, through the CIA, had a program called the paper clip project, which focused on bringing Nazi scientists and putting them on strategic positions of authority, some of them who were working with doctors in Nazi Germany and experimenting on black people, during for example the Tuskegee experiment, said Dr. Carr.

Dr. Carr then surrendered the stage to show video proof of the black holocaust showing a documentary on the testimony of black: a documentary titled: Hitler’s Forgotten Victims,” featuring footage of Holocaust I and testimonies of Black Germans who were victims of the holocaust.

“You can’t hide the sun, though you can block it” Dr. Carr said, veiling his eyes from the spot light, “and you can’t hide the truth”.

Dr. Carr finished planting intellectual seeds in Skyline students’ minds with the book signing of his bestsellers: “Wicked Words: Racism in the dictionary” and of course “Germany’s Black Holocaust.”