Black people in Nazi Germany - Lionel Romney's survival in a concentration camp

Afro-Caribbean sailor Lionel Romney survived eleven months in a concentration camp. His story illustrates how Black people were systematically persecuted under the Nazi regime. Lionel Romney was born in Santo Domingo in 1912 and raised on Sint Maarten. As a young man, he signed on to a cargo ship...

44 min - War & Military - DW Documentary

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