ISBN:
9780521857994
,
0521857996
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 201 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
Edition:
1. publ.
Year of publication:
2006
DDC:
940.54/7243/08996
Keywords:
Deutsches Reich
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
Geschichte 1940
;
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 - Atrocités - France
;
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 - Prisonniers et prisons des Allemands
;
Krijgsgevangenen
;
Noirs - Persécutions nazies - France
;
Oorlogsmisdaden
;
Prisonniers de guerre - Afrique occidentale - Histoire - 20e siècle
;
Prisonniers de guerre - Allemagne - Histoire - 20e siècle
;
Wehrmacht
;
West-Afrikanen
;
Geschichte
;
Weltkrieg (1939-1945)
;
World War, 1939-1945 Atrocities
;
World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, German
;
Blacks Nazi persecution
;
Prisoners of war History 20th century
;
Prisoners of war History 20th century
;
Kolonialtruppe
;
Kriegsverbrechen
;
Schwarze
;
Französischer Kriegsgefangener
;
Westfeldzug
;
Frankrijk
;
Deutschland
;
Frankreich
;
Frankreich
;
Deutsches Reich Wehrmacht
;
Kriegsverbrechen
;
Frankreich
;
Kolonialtruppe
;
Schwarze
;
Geschichte 1940
;
Deutsches Reich Wehrmacht
;
Westfeldzug
;
Kriegsverbrechen
;
Frankreich
;
Kolonialtruppe
;
Schwarze
;
Geschichte 1940
;
Deutsches Reich Wehrmacht
;
Westfeldzug
;
Kriegsverbrechen
;
Französischer Kriegsgefangener
;
Schwarze
;
Geschichte 1940
Abstract:
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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