In the last ten years, more attention has been drawn to the Brown Babies of Germany. Brown Babies is a term for children born to Black soldiers and White German women during and after the Second World War. Other names include "War Babies" and "Occupation Babies." In Germany, we were known as Mischlingskinder ("mixed-race children"), a derogatory term first used by the Nazi regime to describe children whose parents were German and Jewish descendants. From 1943 to 1955, African American soldiers fathered about 10,000 children in the American Zone of Occupied Germany. This made up a significant minority of the 37,000 illegitimate children of U.S. soldiers overall. This book chronicles an astonishing account of one of these Brown Babies. It traces my first five years of life in a German orphanage to adulthood, living in the United States with wonderful adoptive parents. During those early orphanage years, I was comforted by a spiritual presence and given a gift that guided me to help improve the lives of a generation of people. With every birth, there is pain and discomfort, which I'm more than willing to bear because drafting this story has been both painful and uncomfortable. I didn't hire a professional writer to help tell this story because only my words and thoughts could describe the innermost secrets, I have concealed most of my life. Open your mind and let your religious faith explain what you are about to read. I'm confident this true story will lift, inspire, and strengthen you.
