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Witness History

Being black in Nazi Germany

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Theodor Wonja Michael was a child when Hitler came to power in Germany. The son of a German mother and a Cameroonian father he faced discrimination and danger under Nazi rule. He has been speaking to Caroline Wyatt about how working as a film actor helped him to survive World War Two.

Photo: Theodor Wonja Michael at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2013. Credit: Alamy

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podcast for BBC Sounds.

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0:49.0

featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices.

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poltergeist, cricket and conspiracy theories, and that's just a few examples.

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at BBC Sounds, Just before this BBC

1:13.5

podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. My name's Linda

1:17.8

Davies and I commission podcast for BBC Sounds. As you'd expect at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality

1:25.0

featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices.

1:30.0

What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things

1:35.0

like pop stars, poltergeist, cricket and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples.

1:42.0

If you'd like to discover something a little bit

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