Theodor Wonja Michael postcard
Theodor Wonja Michael was born into a mixed race family in Berlin on 15th January 1925.
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The girl (name unknown) in the centre of this image was the mixed race child of a German woman from the Rhineland and a French colonial soldier. The photograph has survived because it was used as a slide in a lecture on genetics at the State Academy for Race and Health in Dresden in the late 1930s.