2 - They were part of the French Army in the Rhinelands.
Explanation:
Persecution of Black people occurred despite their relatively small presence in Germany. Black people accounted for roughly 20,000 people out of an overall population of 65 million by 1933.
The children of African soldiers serving with French troops and German women were viewed as a threat to the purity of the Germanic race. The Nazis referred to them as the “Rhineland B*st*rds.”
Black people from other areas of Europe and America were also victimized by the Nazi regime after they were caught in German-occupied Europe during World War II or held as a prisoners of war.
