Editing Human zoo (section)

=== Ethnological expositions during Nazi Germany ===
As ethnogenic expositions were discontinued in Germany around 1931,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Human zoos: When people were the exhibits |date=3 October 2017|url=https://www.dw.com/en/human-zoos-when-people-were-the-exhibits/a-37748193|access-date=2020-12-02|publisher=Deutsche Welle|language=en-GB|archive-date=7 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210907142026/https://www.dw.com/en/human-zoos-when-people-were-the-exhibits/a-37748193|url-status=live}}</ref> there were many repercussions for the performers. Many of the people brought from their homelands to work in the exhibits had created families in Germany, and there were many children that had been born in Germany. Once they no longer worked in the zoos or for performance acts, these people were stuck living in Germany where they had no rights and were harshly discriminated against. During the rise of the Nazi party, the foreign actors in these stage shows were typically able to stay out of concentration camps because there were so few of them that the Nazis did not see them as a real threat.<ref name=":1">"'You Better Go Back to Africa'| Interview." ''"You Better Go Back to Africa"| Interview'', DW English, 18 June 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=baGXUsOKBcU.</ref> Although they were able to avoid concentration camps, they were not able to participate in German life as citizens of ethnically German origin could. The [[Hitler Youth]] did not allow children of foreign parents to participate, and adults were rejected as German soldiers.<ref name=":1" /> Many ended up working in war industry factories or foreign laborer camps.<ref name=":1" />

[[Hans Massaquoi]] in his 1999 book ''[[Destined to Witness]]'' observed a human zoo within the Hamburg zoo [[Tierpark Hagenbeck]] during the pre-Nazi Germany period, in which an African family was placed with the animals, openly laughed at, and otherwise treated rudely by the public crowd. And then they turned upon him, a fellow spectator, due to his mixed appearance. The date, according to his book, was approximately 1930.<ref>Destined to Witness, pgs. 24-25</ref>