Majub bin Adam Mohamed Hussein, who was born in Dar es Salaam in what is now Tanzania and moved to Germany in the 1920s. There he changed his name to Mohamed Husen and appeared in films alongside some of the country’s most famous actors, sometimes in movies that championed German imperialism, before ending up in a concentration camp for having an on-set interracial relationship.

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