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'''Rhineland Bastard''' ({{lang-de| Rheinlandbastard}}) was a derogatory term used in [[Nazi Germany]] to describe [[Afro-Germans]], believed [[Black Horror on the Rhine|fathered by French Army personnel of African descent]] who were stationed in the [[Rhineland]] during [[Occupation of the Rhineland|its occupation]] by France after [[World War I]]. There is evidence that other Afro-Germans, born from unions between German men and African women in [[German colonization of Africa|former German colonies in Africa]], were also referred to as ''Rheinlandbastarde''.
 
After 1933, under [[NazismNazi and race|racist Naziracial policiestheories]], Afro-Germans deemed to be ''Rheinlandbastarde'' were persecuted. They were rounded up in a campaign of [[compulsory sterilization]].<ref name="sam" />
 
==History==