The Horror On The Rother
Widening the scope of the Grooming atrocity
“The question now enters a new phase-with official denials, not, of course, of the presence of these troops, or of the brothels forced upon even the smallest towns by the French Command; but of specific outrages· upon women committed by them. The occupied regions are supervised by a body known as the " Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commission." This body appears to have investigated conditions. The French Government has issued a statement to the effect that charge against the conduct of the African troops have been grossly exaggerated by "German publicists,'' that action has been taken in regard to the few substantiated cases, and that all the Allied representatives have signed a report to that effect.'
An echo of these official statements was heard in! the House of Commons on July 21 when, replying to a question put by Mr. Allen Parkinson (Wigan, Labour), Mr. Bonar Law said:- " The Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commission recently pronounced a sentence of suspension for fifteen days from June 16 as regards seven German publications, of which the two most important were the Kölnische Volkszeitung and the Rheinische Zeitunge for articles· attacking the French coloured troops.' The High Commission are satisfied that the accusations made against these troops are devoid of any substantial foundation. Several of the newspapers which published these charges having apologised, the period of suspension was reduced to five days. The British representative on the High Commission has reported in this sense."
As to the conditions in which this inquiry was held, its character, the witnesses interrogated, the ground it covered-and so on, we are told, of course, nothing.”
E.D Morel, The Horror on the Rhine, 1920
If you have been subject to the British education system you will likely have, in your mind, a spider web diagram of ‘factors’ that led to the ‘Rise of the Nazis’ in Germany - including: ‘The Great Depression’, ‘Hyperinflation’, ‘The Freikorps’ and ‘Propaganda’. If you paid close attention you may also remember being taught about the Treaty of Versailles, and the enforcement of it during the occupation of the Rhineland.
The GCSE History Teaching goes that this was ‘humiliating’ for the German people and this led to millions of young ‘disillusioned’ men joining the Sturmabteilung because they needed ‘that sense of purpose, and belonging’. Right, brill, there’s yer 8 marks. Now, onto the Source analysis.
How many British people today are aware that 14% of the troops which occupied the Rhineland were ‘coloured’? How many of them know that the German Government had attempted to negotiate clauses into the Treaty of Versailles that would specifically prohibit the French from using coloured troops? How many of them know, that, at the outset of the occupation, both the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Great Britain asked the French authorities to withdraw them?
How many of them know about the wave of reported atrocities inflicted by coloured colonial troops on Germans during the occupation? And the longstanding campaign of the French authorities to blindly deny that such events were taking place - even printing ‘love letters’ between Sengalese men and German women in French newspapers? How many of them know that Hitler mentioned these incidents directly in Mein Kampf? That the Wehrmacht went out of it’s way to kill Sengalese prisoners in revenge after the invasion of France?
But the question for us is: Are our infant sons to be doomed to a violent and senseless death in manhood because French militarism is sowing the seeds of ineradicable hatreds in Europe? Are we to reap the crops? Are we, presently, to suffer once again because German boys are being told to-day: " They obtained our surrender under false pretences. They promised us an honourable peace. 'We laid down our arms, when we were helpless they forced us to sign a Treaty which condemned us to death-in-life. They went on starving us for months and months. They stole our territory. They seized our colonies. They filched our coal and iron. They laid hands upon. the property of our citizens abroad. They piled humiliation upon humiliation on us. All this they did. These things we can forget, though hardly. But that was not enough. They inflicted upon us the supreme outrage. From the plains and forests, from the valleys and the swamps of Africa they brought tens of thousands of savage men, and thrust them upon us. Boys, these men raped our mothers and sisters! This, neither you, nor we, nor they, must ever be allowed to forget."
Ed Morel, 1920
What is fascinating about the ‘Black Horror on the Rhine’ is that it was received with enormous international sympathy outside of Germany and France, echoing roughly the events of the last week with international outcry over our rape gangs. Democratic Senators petitioned the President to demand that colonial troops were withdrawn - 50,000 Swedish women signed a petition to the same effect. The British left was especially energetic in pursuing it, Labour MPs repeatedly demanded that the Government pressure France into withdrawing the ‘black horror’ and George Lansbury, who would later become leader of the party, described them as ‘savages’ in an article for the Daily Herald. There is a much more interesting history of the Labour party waiting to be written; in reference especially to their war against Freemasonry, alas that is for another time.
Ed Morel, the author of the first two extracts in this piece, was a left wing journalist (and later, a Labour MP) who had led the campaign against ‘human rights’ abuses in the Congo - particularly regarding the rubber trade - and spent the last years of his life campaigning vigorously against the French Government for it’s deployment of Africans in Germany. Ed, himself half-French, detested the French Government for its redefinition of French citizenship to French colonial soldiers. This effort had been led by Blaise Diagne, the first black politician in France (elected 1914) who was a sort of Kemi of his own time (“Diagne is a Frenchmen who is accidentally black”) - pressing for notions of French assimilation and that sense of the Armed Forces.
The basic view of Europeans of the early 20th century, especially those on the Left and Feminists, was that non-European men were a threat. It was the suffragists in both the United States and Britain who lobbied hard against the ‘White Slavery’, leading to both the 1910 Mann Act and the 1912 Criminal Law Amendment. These were designed to protect indigenous women from foreign pimps, who were already problematic by the early 20th century. Whatever your views on the historical validity of the ‘black horror on the Rhine’, there are few brazen enough to deny the Marocchinate - where French Morrocan troops engaged in a demented spree of mass rape and murder in Italy against girls as young as eleven after the allied invasion. In one case a male priest who attempted to defend two girls was himself raped by one of the troops.
There is a wider point here: the history of non-whites sexually enslaving white women in Britain stretches far, far wider than the grooming gang atrocities, or ‘mass immigration’ under Tony Blair. Take Maltese immigrants - who were grooming white girls and pimping them out as early as the inter-war period in London and especially Cardiff - leading to race riots in 1919. Read: