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* DisproportionateRetribution: Like so many depictions of the Nazis, a group of SS shoot a Jew because he wasn’t circumcised enough. It's obviously just a cruel game they play with him, though, since as a Jew they caught he would be doomed no matter what.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: DisproportionateRetribution / EvilIsPetty: Like so many depictions of the Nazis, a group of SS shoot a Jew because he wasn’t circumcised enough. It's obviously just a cruel game they play with him, though, since as a Jew they caught he would be doomed no matter what.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Like so many depictions of the Nazis, a group of them shoot a Jew because he wasn’t circumcised enough.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: Like so many depictions of the Nazis, a group of them SS shoot a Jew because he wasn’t circumcised enough.enough. It's obviously just a cruel game they play with him, though, since as a Jew they caught he would be doomed no matter what.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Like so many depictions of the Nazis, a group of them shoot a Jew because he wasn’t circumcised enough.
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* HeroicBastard: Leyna, who's a good person at heart (even if she advocates Nazism for some time) and called "bastard" as an insult at several points (mixed race Germans like her were all called "Rhineland bastards").

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* HeroicBastard: Leyna, who's a good person at heart (even if she advocates Nazism for some time) was born out of wedlock and is called "bastard" as an insult at several points (mixed race Germans like her were all called disparaged as "Rhineland bastards").
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* LoveAtFirstSight: The feeling Kerstin describes upon meeting Leyna's father.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: This is now the third film from director Amma Asante to focus on a historical interracial love story (though this one is fictional, unlike the [[Film/{{Belle}} first]] [[Film/AUnitedKingdom two]]).
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* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Leyna suffers from this continually, as a result of her biracial ancestry, growing up in Nazi Germany. Simply having her appearance means she constantly stands out from everyone else, and she's under the threat of being sterilized for her ancestry. After she gets pregnant from a white German boy, both she and her child are in mortal peril..

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* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Leyna suffers from this continually, as a result of her biracial ancestry, growing up in Nazi Germany. Simply having her appearance means she constantly stands out from everyone else, and she's under the threat of being sterilized for her ancestry. After she gets pregnant from a white German boy, both she and her child are put in mortal peril..peril.

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* ChildOfTwoWorlds: Leyna is a biracial girl who was born to a white German mother and black French African father in Germany. As a result though she was born and raised German, Lenya can never fit in due to the pervasive racism against biracial people at the time, which only gets worse when the Nazis take power. Lenya does all that she can to conform, even adopting Nazism. It does no good though because of her ancestry forever being a barrier.



* DisappearedDad: Leyna's father apparently went home to Africa long before. It's unclear if he ever even knew about her. We never learn what happened with Koen's father either (but he may have been born out of wedlock like Leyna).

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Leyna's father apparently went home to Africa long before. It's unclear if he ever even knew about her.
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We never learn what happened with her little brother Koen's father either (but he may have been born out of wedlock like Leyna). Leyna).
** [[spoiler:Lutz, father of Lenya's baby, is murdered over their connection by his Nazi dad before their child's birth.]]
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* GenerationXerox: Kerstin and Leyna both fall in love with and are impregnated by someone society disapproves of. Then, they lose their lovers tragically with only their child as SomeoneToRememberHimBy.

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* GenerationXerox: Kerstin and then her daughter Leyna both fall in love with and are impregnated by someone society disapproves of. of [[MalignedMixedMarriage due to it being an interracial relationship]]. Then, they lose their lovers tragically with only their child left as SomeoneToRememberHimBy.
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* GenerationXerox: Kerstin and Leyna both fall in love with and are impregnated by someone society disapproves of. Then, they lose their lovers tragically with only their child as SomeoneToRememberHimBy.
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* MixedAncestry: Leyna is half German and half African, the source of her fraught status in Nazi Germany. Her baby with Lutz (who's a white German) is mixed too, and since such relationships are illegal under Nazi laws, she's at risk just by being pregnant.
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''Where Hands Touch'' is a 2018 film about Leyna Schlegel, a biracial 16 year old girl living in Nazi Germany. As the child of a German mother and a black African father, she is despised by Nazi ideology, and in danger of forced sterilization to prevent her "contaminating" their gene pool. Leyna's mother Kerstin protects her by moving Leyna around, going from the Rhineland to Berlin with her little brother Koen. Her aunt and uncle aren't happy because the association endangers them. Lenya is kicked out of school due to her ancestry, and Kerstin gets false papers showing she's already been sterilized so the Gestapo will leave them alone. Seeking to belong, Leyna starts to embrace Nazi ideology, and begins a secret romance with a member of the Hitler Youth, Lutz, who sees past her race. Yet when Leyna becomes pregnant with their child, danger looms for them both... The film stars Creator/AmandlaStenberg, Creator/AbbieCornish, George [=MacKay=] and Creator/ChristopherEccleston.

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''Where Hands Touch'' is a 2018 film about Leyna Schlegel, a biracial 16 year old girl living in Nazi Germany. As the child of a German mother and a black African father, she is despised by Nazi ideology, and in danger of forced sterilization to prevent her "contaminating" their gene pool. Leyna's mother Kerstin protects her by moving Leyna around, going from the Rhineland to Berlin with her little brother Koen. Her aunt and uncle aren't happy because the association endangers them. Lenya is kicked out of school due to her ancestry, and Kerstin gets false papers showing she's already been sterilized so the Gestapo will leave them alone. Seeking to belong, Leyna starts to embrace Nazi ideology, and begins a secret romance with a member of the Hitler Youth, Lutz, who sees past her race. Yet when Leyna becomes pregnant with their child, danger looms for them both... The film stars Creator/AmandlaStenberg, Creator/AbbieCornish, George [=MacKay=] Creator/GeorgeMacKay and Creator/ChristopherEccleston.

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