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. 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. Reviving traditional images of black soldiers as mutilating savages, a massive Nazi Propaganda offensive approved by Hitler, created their rationale. The treatment of black French POWs remained, however, suprisingly inconsistent, with abuses often triggered by certain combat situations.
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"...this book represents investigative history at its best.... [it] not only rescues from near historical oblivion the fate of African soldiers on the Western front, it also offers a comprehensive and convincing analytical framework to explain German massacres. The book is also well-written and tightly argued... this impressive study represents essential reading for anybody interested in the history of the Second World War, Nazi Germany, and racist violence in the twentieth century more generally. If the significance of a new monograph can be measured according to the extent in which it compels us to revise our standard narratives, then this study succeeds brilliantly."
- H-German, Frank Biess, Department of History, University of California-San Diego
"...this book represents investigative history at its best." -Frank Biess, H-German, H-War
"...a well-written example of proficient historical work." -Yannick Cormier,
- H-German, Frank Biess, Department of History, University of California-San Diego
"...this book represents investigative history at its best." -Frank Biess, H-German, H-War
"...a well-written example of proficient historical work." -Yannick Cormier,
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When it invaded France in 1940, the German army massacred thousands of black POWs belonging to units drafted in France's colonies. The book for the first time documents these war crimes 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. Drawing from approaches for explaining genocides and war crimes, the book advances a nuanced interpretation of the motivation for these massacres.
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tirailleurs sénégalais, cavalry div, Ministère de la Défense, massacre des soldats, guerre africains, tirailleurs sénégalais dans, mutilation charge, troupes coloniales dans, illegitimate combatants, antiblack propaganda, hedgehog positions, colonial units, black prisoners, black soldiers, colonial soldiers, propaganda offensive Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Fate of Black French Soldiers, World War, West African, Infantry Division, Colonial Conscripts, Soviet Union, Panzer Division, Black Horror, Geneva Convention, French West Africa, North Africans, Totenkopf Division, Von Wilden, Das Schwarze Korps, Fonds Edouard Bélile, Tirailleur Sénégalais, New York, Weygand Line, Völkischer Beobachter, Nazi Germany, French High Command, German Army Command, After the Battles, Infantry Regiment, Blacks Under the Swastika Browse Sample Pages:
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