Brown Babies

And I heard, and I found like this phrase that they, that I hadn't heard before.

And it was called the Brown babies of Germany.

And I needed to know what happened to those kids, because when you hear, that a child was sent from post-war Germany to a family in America, you picture an ending.

You picture a new home, parents waiting, a photograph at an airport.

And I kept thinking about everything outside that photograph.

Like, who was this child? Who were these children? What had their mother been told? Did she allow this? Was she allowed to allow it? And what would that child eventually be told about the mother, right? So brown babies was a term that was used in the United States for mixed race children that were born to black servicemen and white European women during and after the Second World War.

Today we're concentrating on Germany.

and the children whose lives connected it to the United States.