German 'Brown Babies' Search For True Identity In Documentary (VIDEO): The effects of a world war, race and identity would be challenging subjects individually, but two documentaries are taking on all three issues at once, in an attempt to shed light on a forgotten population.
"Brown Babies: The Mischlingskinder Story," which was released last summer and "Brown Babies: Germany's Lost Children," which aired on German television this fall, reveal the virtually unknown stories of the offspring of white German women and African American soldiers in the years following World War II, CNN reports.
These children, who were called "mischlingskinder," a derogatory term for biracial children, were oftentimes adopted by African American families after their parents were forcibly separated. Both documentaries follow their stories, as they search for their roots.
