Template:Did you know nominations/Mandenga Diek

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... that Cameroon-born Mandenga Diek, who obtained German citizenship in 1896, was not allowed to return to Cameroon with his German wife? Source: Aitken, Robbie (9 April 2025). "Denied a Certificate of Fitness to Marry: The Nuremberg Race Laws as a Threat to Black German Futures". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 39 (1): 40–56. [https://shura.shu.ac.uk/34893/1/Aitken-DeniedACertificate%28AM%29.pdf see p. 8 of this pdf]
ALT1: ... that Mandenga Diek from the German colony of Kamerun is the earliest known African-born citizen of the German Empire? Source: https://heimatkunde.boell.de/de/2023/02/23/ploetzlich-hatten-wir-eine-afrodeutsche-geschichte-die-rolle-der-schwestern-diek{{pb}}https://sz-magazin.sueddeutsche.de/familie/mandenga-diek-abenaa-adomako-schwerze-deutsche-94300?reduced=true
ALT2: ... that the German wife of Mandenga Diek was saved from persecution by a family photograph? Source: Reiprich & Ngambi ul Kuo 1991, [https://archive.org/details/showingourcolors0000unse/page/72/mode/2up?q=family p. 72]
ALT3: ... that the harassment of Cameroon-born Mandenga Diek and his family in Nazi Germany was first made public in the 1986 book Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out? Source: [https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1171527.gedenken-schwarze-geschichte-sichtbar-machen.html]
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Storm Ulysses
Comment: There are a lot of both sad and great stories here, not just "first Black German citizen". Happy for any hook suggestions.

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Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 60 past nominations.}}

—Kusma (talk) 21:00, 4 May 2025 (UTC).

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