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I’m a black American soldier stationed in Germany/Japan immediately after WW2. I meet the love of my life and we want to get married. Would a German/Japanese official marry us? Would the US army have prevented it? What were miscegenation laws like in occupied Germany/Japan?

by /u/J2quared in /r/AskHistorians

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