So apparently in the new upcoming Battlefield 1 game there's some Black German soldiers on Europe's side. History-wise did this ever happen?
Pic related.
Of course it happened
BF1 was made by the best WW1 historians
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>>1396683
Is that world war 1?
And really they should've just made an expansion about the abyssinian war if they wanted to have nignogs. I mean, seeing Italy get BTFO by Based Ethiopia woulda been nice.
>black German soldiers on Europe's side
>Europe's side
What did he mean by this
>>1396683
They probably saw a couple of pictures of blacks in the north african battles and just went "why the fuck not".
Weird decision though, since they are humanizing the "bad guys", since all this forced wannabe progressive choices are exactly that.
And yeah, Germany is seen as the bad guy by most people regarding WW1.
If there are black Germans soldiers in WW1, it should be placed in the proper context: Serving under Lettow-Vorbeck during the East African Campaign.
But what do you expect from a Swedish game developer.
Are there Native Americans in the game?
>Africans serving in the Imperial German Army
>Since the 17th Century it was popular for European armies to have African bandsmen in their elite regiments. As early as 1685 an African known as Ludwig Besemann was promoted to First Class Drummer ("Heeres-Pauker Erster Klasse") in the army of the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Prussia.
>Other Prussian rules continued the tradition through the 18th Century. King Friedrich I had 15 African pipers in his Life Guards ("Leibregiment"). Friedrich Wilhelm I had sixteen African musicians in his artillery.
>These were doubled under Frederick the Great (King Friedrich II) so that by 1759 there were 32 African musicians in the Prussian artillery.
>Several other German states also had African musicians in their armies. The Hessian mercenary armies fighting on the British side in the American War of Independence recruited freed Afro-American slaves as their bandsmen and sometimes as soldiers. Richard Knötel illustrates an African drummer in the Oldenburg Grenadiers of the Napoleonic Wars.
>During the Imperial era there were a small handful of Africans who served as musicians in the Imperial army. There were also other Africans living in Germany who had been brought there by various royalty or upper classes as servants or entertainers. One hundred Africans were brought from the African colonies to Germany for the 1896 Colonial Exhibition in Berlin.
>Some of these men stayed on in Germany, took German wives and became naturalised German subjects. They usually felt loyalty towards their adopted country and several are known to have served in the Imperial Army on the Western, Eastern and Palestinian Fronts during the First World War.
http://s400910952.websitehome.co.uk/germancolonialuniforms/africans%20in%20german%20uniform.htm
>>1396715
Probably meant Europe's Front.
>>1396659
>Black German soldiers on Europe's side
