AHC: Legion Freies Afrika

Reading up on the Free Arabian Legion recently has made me consider the plausibility of a Free African Legion joining them. So! Here's your challenge - with a POD of 1940, have as many Sub-Saharan African soldiers as possible go and fight in a Free African Legion.

Bonus points if any of them are from the African Diaspora in the New World.
 
What was it about diverse formations like the Free Indian Legion/Indian National Army that made them work?
There was a United Indian identity for them to rely on. For Africans there no concept of a United Africa much less a united identity for the individual colonies
 
There was a United Indian identity for them to rely on. For Africans there no concept of a United Africa much less a united identity for the individual colonies
I'm not particularly aware on how united India was at the time so I'll look into it. If you're saying there was no Pan-Africanist concept, that's not necessarily the case, although I should've made myself more clear on the topic - I didn't mean to say that they'd be fighting for a Pan-African polity but rather, the liberation of their respective states. This is not to say that those states are the entire colony themself.
 
The liberation of which states. The colonial divisions or the various pre-colonial entries ?
For the former recruitment is too diverse or too low for this to work along with a lack of high ranking leaders and the latter a United identity doesn't exist in this time period .
 
For the former recruitment is too diverse or too low for this to work along with a lack of high ranking leaders and the latter a United identity doesn't exist in this time period .
All good points. Anyways, the entire goal of the AHC is to get an increased number of Sub-Saharans to join the Axis in fighting for their independence. Any ideas on how this could be remotely plausible?
 
As the Nazi's were forcibly sterilising mixed race people in the Rhineland a Free African Legion is about as likely as a Free Jewish Legion.
 
As the Nazi's were forcibly sterilizing mixed race people in the Rhineland a Free African Legion is about as likely as a Free Jewish Legion.
With that being the case, why were the Nazis inclined to consider establishing the Free Arabian and Free Indian Legions in the first place? Or any Slavic formations?
 
with a POD of 1940, have as many Sub-Saharan African soldiers as possible go and fight in a Free African Legion.
Simply have the French hand over colonial units for German service as part of the armistice, maybe as a labour corps for the DAK?

(not sure it really works due to German ideology and the way they where treated prior to your POD)
 
Simply have the French hand over colonial units for German service as part of the armistice, maybe as a labour corps for the DAK?
Would Germany be willing to treat them as anything other than auxiliaries?
 
"Jews are all Communist, and Communism wants to exploit the Negro just like the White man. I wouldn't lift my finger to save a Jew . . . we came here against our will. They brought us here as slaves and they've treated us slaves. We owe nothing to America. America owes everything to us. This isn't my culture. Cooks isn't my name. This isn't my home. My home and my culture and my name are in Africa. I'm a foreigner here. I'm a persecuted man here. I'm hated here. But I tell you what I am right now - I am a Black nationalist: and I want the colored people to live like colored people. I want colored people to have their own civilization, their own government, their own cities, their own officials. I want the Black man to go back to Africa, and I'll back up anybody that says 'Africa for the Africans.'" -- Carlos Cooks.

"I reject completely the theory that the Negro must give unquestioning obedience to the State and its leaders. We feel no enmity with people of the totalitarian powers, especially Japan. The Japanese have never lynched or exploited the Negro . . . Between Nazism and Democracy, the two evils, I would choose Nazism, for the Blacks can sink no lower than they have today in America." -- Carlos Cooks.

"The Blacker the Negro, the finer the Negro. The Blacker the Negro, the greater credit he is to his race. Mulattoes are bastards. They are enemies of the Black Negro. We want an Empire of Blacks in Africa. We want nationhood based exclusively on Black men. The salvation of my race is a religion with me. What Hitler said about the nobility of the Aryans, also applies to us about the nobility of the Negro." -- Samuel W. Daniels.

Source for the quotes: Under Cover: My Four Years in the Nazi Underworld of America by John Roy Carlson.

Would it at all be possible for the Free African Legion to instead find a basis in African-American volunteers? Considering the tendency of militant Black nationalists in the 20th Century to advocate for an "emigrationist" stance and the establishment of an African Empire, could it be possible for a "Tuskegee Legion" to come into existence at some point during WWII? I know this seems really out there but it's an interesting thing to contemplate.
 
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