Luftwaffe Reaction re: African American Pilots?

[Glimspur]

Hi Fellas, I posted this just after the Board was set up. I really would appreciate any help on this subject. I know it is a rather unusual issue, but please post if you can.

Thanks
Glimspur

[mkb42h]

I have an anecdote passed down by a friend whose stepfather was in the luftwaffe: he was flying his messerschmidt in combat and suddenly found he was flying alongside a 'schwarze' he had never seen a 'schwarze' before and says they made eyecontact and each peeled off in opposite directions!
take it for what it's worth.

[Franek Grabowski]

I doubt anybody cared as it was highly unusual to meet a negro in the air, not even to mention it is virtually impossible to recognise colour of a skin in the air.

[brewerjerry]

Hi
slightly O/T,
but in my local library,they have a 70's book on luftwaffe aces, in it is a picture of a coloured african and it is captioned as 'the batman of the marseille'
it doesn't say if he was a civilian or a member of the luftwaffe
cheers
Jerry

[Ruy Horta]

He was a POW from South Africa, who was later executed by French resistence fighters.

At least according to Paul Carell.

[Graham Boak]

There were some black Germans, in one sense at least. JG27's badge of a negro head on a map of Africa referred to Germany's experience as a colonial power, in South-West Africa, now Namibia I believe. Some of the matters arising appear in Thomas Pynchon's novel, V.