A 1952 attempt to ‘deal’ with Germany’s ‘Mischlings’

This German slice-of-life drama is based on a very real postwar dilemma. At the time the film was made, there were over 3000 children living in Germany who’d been fathered by African American GIs. Referred to as “mischlings,” these children were often treated as outcasts because of their illegitimacy and skin color.

Synopsis:
A well-to-do Hamburg family finds a five-year old girl abandoned at the door of their villa. Her name is Toxi, and she’s black, the daughter of a German girl (who died) and an American GI (who returned to the States). Director Robert A. Stemmle effectively details the prejudices in Germany against mixed marriages, as well as against the children produced by those marriages.

In a series of extremely well scripted scenes, various German positions on race and racism are discussed with remarkable honesty and candor. Just as young Toxi has worked her way into the hearts of this German family, a resolution of sorts appears: her American father returns, hoping to take Toxi with him back to the States. The film premiered in August 1952, just at the moment when the first generation of those children created by marriages or liaisons between German women and American GIs — quite a few of whom were African-Americans — began entering German schools, thus creating a public awareness of this ‘situation.’
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Only information I could find on the star who was of ‘Afro German’ descent. Is that she was born in 1946, divorced, and is the mother of one. She also appeared in a few more German films until 1971.