NG173: A Brand of Racism

by Donald English

Private Samuel Freeman served as an American soldier in Germany during World War I. As a young Black man from Alabama, he was a stranger in the country and within his own army. It was not until he met a young German woman named Ingrid that Private Freeman found his home. Their passion ignites a firestorm of suspicion, hatred, and bigotry that impacts the young man and his family for generations, from the first World War through Nazi Germany and the aftermath of World War II.

About the Donald English is a retired Air Force Senior Master Sergeant who served honorably in the Korean and Vietnam wars. He grew up in a small coal mining town near Gary, West Virginia with his fourteen siblings during the Great Depression. At the age of 17, he enlisted in a segregated Air Force to find a better life and to support his family. During his career, he was stationed all over the world, including Germany. He started writing NG173 nearly 40 years ago after learning about the struggles of black Germans in Nazi Germany. This book is the result of decades of his research about those black Germans and a lifetime of his experience as a black American.

199 pages, Paperback

Published September 21, 2022