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* Arthurian literature has featured Moorish knights since Sir Morien in the 13th Century.
* In the medieval romance ''King Horn,'' Saracens invade Suddene (a mythical kingdom in the British Isles). This is probably a [[Race Lift]] as the villains act just like Viking conquerors, but by the time the story was written down Vikings had become passe and the Crusades were the new hot topic.
* The later [[Sven Hassel]] novels introduced Stabsgefreiter Albert Mumbuto, a black soldier in the German army of [[WW 2]]. However the website [https://web.archive.org/web/20080624083002/http://www.svenhassel.info/ Porta's Kitchen] mentioned a documentary where several black Germans were interviewed, including at least one soldier.
** Germany had had an African colonial empire until 1919 so there were a number of African-Germans long after that. This matter surfaces in Istvan Szabo's movie ''Mephisto'', taking place in the 1930s, in which the protagonist, a famous theatre director, has an African-German mistress and therefore gets chastised by an angry Hermann Göring.
** Even if pretty unexpected for a modern reader, the [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazis]] held no special grudge against Blacks—Nazi [http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005479 racism towards blacks] [http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/bibliography/?lang=en&content=blacks is well-documented] and horrible, but it wasn't as systematic as their main targets.
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