Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany

Year 2001
Pages 480
Binding Paperback

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The listing describes Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany by Hans J. Massaquoi as a general-interest book whose subject is easy to identify. The record for this copy lists 2001 • Perennial • 480 pages.

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