Professor Dr. Robbie Aitken is a historian of Black Europe and Empire at Sheffield Hallam University. He has written extensively on the development of a Black community in Germany from the 1880s to 1945. He has written extensively on the development of a Black community in Germany from the 1880s to 1945. His publications include Black Germany, the Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community, 1884-1960 (with Eve Rosenhaft) and 'Denied a Certificate of Fitness to Marry: The Nuremberg Race Laws as a Threat to Black German Futures', Holocaust and Genocide Studies 39/1 (2025): 40-56. He is currently working on the compensation claims of Black Holocaust victims in the post-war period. He has worked with a wide range of non-academic audiences such as schools, museums, artists, film directors and community groups and has been involved in several public exhibition and memorial projects in Berlin, as well as in the development and implementation of his own travelling exhibition "Black Germany", which has been shown in the UK, Germany and Cameroon.