Hitler's African Victims - The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940 Scheck Raffael Paperback
Hitler's African Victims - The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940 Scheck Raffael Paperback During its campaign against France in 1940, the German army massacred several thousand…
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Hitler's African Victims - The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940 Scheck Raffael Paperback
During its campaign against France in 1940, the German army massacred several thousand black POWs belonging to units drafted in France's West African colonies. Reviving traditional images of black soldiers as mutilating savages, a massive Nazi Propaganda offensive approved by Hitler, created their rationale. Documenting these war crimes on the basis of extensive research in French and German archives, Raffael Scheck advances a nuanced interpretation of the motivation for the massacres.
The treatment of black French POWs remained, however, suprisingly inconsistent, with abuses often triggered by certain combat
French Army of the Victory