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To answer your baby question in a fun way
Here is a German song from 1930. The guy tells the waiter that he'll have two coffee (mocha) for Baby and himself, and a piece of crumble cake.
I remember hearing this song in the radio when I was a child and I was confused and asked my father, how a baby is allowed to drink coffee So yeah, the word "baby" did exist in Eastern Germany.
Although now you got me thinking and he could have just as well said "Wir kriegen ein Kind" (child). My co-worker still references to her already adult daughter as "mein Kind".

Yeah, after we overcome this white supremacy beep
Dumbass

I wish we could all overcome this 'diversity' beep
BOHICA America!

The article contains an odd typo near the end - that he "overcame diversity" Funny.

In 1983 the U.S. Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee was an African-American four-star general named Roscoe Robinson, Jr. He has only been assigned that post in 1982 so I dont think he had a German family, and probably didnt speak fluent German.
http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent?file=ML_rrobinson_bkp

Oh, I see regarding baby. Good to know.
Also, my point about the general was mostly based on thinking he could be four star general, as if he was not then certainly there were black generals at that point, but it seems that it would also not be a stretch to have a black four star general there, perhaps also taking into account that a black general working in the UN or NATO (or in other international contexts) would be sort of a representation outwards that USA had solved (at least in large part) racial issues.

Baby is actually a French loanword (bebe)
& used in the German and English language.
It is common in Germany probably since the 1920s .
Black General, why not. There were a lot of black GIs there. Someone who would be able to learn the language as good like General Jackson would have certainly got a higher rank.

I'm not sure where you are getting your information. Chappie James acheived four-star status in 1975. Roscoe Robinson got his four stars in 1982. Robinson was the U.S. Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee from 1982-1985 and was the likely inspiration for the character of General Jackson in the show.

A black general is realistic in the 1980. Had the character been four star, yes that would have been unrealistic as Colin Powell was the first to achieve that rank and did not do so until 1989.