Title: Hitler's African victims
Subtitle: the German Army massacres of Black French soldiers in 1940
First published: 2006
Description: "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. This book documents these war crimes for the first time on the basis of extensive research in French and German archives. A massive Nazi propaganda offensive approved by Hitler, reviving traditional images of black soldiers as mutilating savages, formed the background for the massacres. The book shows, however, that the treatment of black French POWs was highly inconsistent and that abuses were often triggered by certain combat situations. It connects the massacres of black French soldiers to the debates on the Nazification of the German army during World War II and places them in the context of the treatment of nonwhite "illegitimate combatants" in colonial wars."--Jacket
Subjects: Prisoners of war, World War, 1939-1945, History, Blacks, Nazi persecution, Atrocities, German Prisoners and prisons, World war, 1939-1945, atrocities, World war, 1939-1945, france, World war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, german, Blacks, france, Black people, Deutschland Wehrmacht
Places: France, Germany, West Africa
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: D804.G3 S35 2006