Brown Babies

Brown Babies is a term used for children born to black soldiers and white European women during and after World War II. Other names include "war orphans," "war babies," and "occupation babies." In Germany they were known as Mischlingskinder, a derogatory term first used under the Nazi regime for children of mixed Jewish-German marriages. As of 1955 African-American soldiers in Germany had fathered about 5,000 children in Occupied Germany, making up a significant minority of the 37,000 illegitimate children of US soldiers overall. In the United Kingdom, West Indian members of the British forces, as well as African-American US soldiers, fathered "brown babies" born to European-British women.

Brown Babies

Brown Babies is a term used for children born to black soldiers and white European women during and after World War II. Other names include "war orphans," "war babies," and "occupation babies." In Germany they were known as Mischlingskinder, a derogatory term first used under the Nazi regime for children of mixed Jewish-German marriages. As of 1955 African-American soldiers in Germany had fathered about 5,000 children in Occupied Germany, making up a significant minority of the 37,000 illegitimate children of US soldiers overall. In the United Kingdom, West Indian members of the British forces, as well as African-American US soldiers, fathered "brown babies" born to European-British women.