Nice, now it's time for me to check if that book is mainstream academia or fringe history...
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"Black Germany," Cambridge Press. "Germany and the Black Diaspora," Berghahn Books. It was still dangerous to be Black in Germany back then but many actually waited it out successfully and survived. Some stage performers even rubbed it in the faces of their audiences that they were married, which was clearly intended to undermine the prevailing racialist thinking of the time.
It's an incredibly complicated history. Yes, a few hundred Afro-Germans were sterilized, and it was a real threat all of them faced, however the vast majority escaped that fate. Many kept a low profile or temporarily moved abroad, but some remained defiant, including stage-performers who found clever ways to mock their would-be tormenters.