Hans Jürgen Massaquoi
Date of Birth: 19 Jan 1926
Country: Germany
Biography: The son of the German nurse Bertha Baetz and the Liberian businessman Al-Hajj Massaquoi, Hans-Jürgen spent the first years of his life with the family of his paternal grandfather, Momolu Massaquoi, the Consul General of Liberia in Germany. When political turmoil broke out in the ambassador's homeland in 1929, he and his son Al-Hajj returned to Liberia, leaving Bertha Baetz and her son Hans-Jürgen in Germany. In 1999 Massaquoi published his autobiography Destined to Witness, in which he describe
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Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger (2006) - TV Movie
This drama is based on the childhood memories of Hans Jürgen Massaquoi, who was one of the few black native Germans in Nazi Germany. In 1935 at the age of nine, he lives with his German mother in a small flat in Hamburg's working class district Barmbek, while his father and grandfather had left the country. Although the boy is not persecuted by the Nazis and dreams of joining the Hitler Youth, his skin color makes him a target for racist abuse...
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