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"TERZ: Im Zweiten Weltkrieg kämpften Schwarze in der US-Army in separierten Einheiten. Wie war das in der Lincoln-Brigade? Harry Fisher : Wir hatten zwischen 80 und 100 schwarze Soldaten unter uns. Sie waren angewidert von der Verfolgung der Juden durch die Nazis und sie wollten durch ihren Kampf gegen den Faschismus einen Beitrag leisten gegen rassistische Verfolgung und Unterdrückung. Wir waren die erste soldatische Einheit von Amerikanern, die keiner Rassentrennung unterlag. Viele unserer farbigen Mitkämpfer waren Offiziere. Der erste farbige Kommandeur überhaupt war Oliver Law, der mit uns in der Lincoln-Brigade kämpfte. Er fiel bei der Schlacht in Brunete. Wir errichteten eine Holzplatte auf seinem Grab, auf der stand: Hier ruht Oliver Law, der erste amerikanische Neger, der weiße Amerikaner im Kampf führte."

Harry Fisher was a volunteer of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

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A rather different version appeared in Herrik's book "Hermanos!" (1969), a novel based on real events in Spanish Civil War: an Afro-American soldier in the Internaional Brigades is promoted to command though clearly unfit to it, purely for anti-racist propaganda purposes; he leads his soldiers to a disastrous fiasco in which many are killed; when the survivors angrily accuse him of responsibility for their comrades' death, the officer shouts the slogan of the American left: "Black and White - Unite and Fight!" - whereupon black and white soldiers togtheter turn on him and beat him to death.

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