Hitler's African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940, Raffael Scheck (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), xiii + 202 pp., 65.00
This brief, but superbly written and documented study, the first of its kind to use both German and French sources, describes and analyzes a generally ignored war crime. Altogether, in 1939 and 1940, the French army recruited some 100,000 soldiers in French West Africa, of whom three quarters served...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 21, Issue: 3, Pages: 516-518 |
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| Summary: | This brief, but superbly written and documented study, the first of its kind to use both German and French sources, describes and analyzes a generally ignored war crime. Altogether, in 1939 and 1940, the French army recruited some 100,000 soldiers in French West Africa, of whom three quarters served in France, while the rest performed guard duty in France's colonies. Among the Black troops were the Tirailleurs Sénégalais, of whom roughly 63,000 fought in the front lines against the Wehrmacht in May and June 1940, with ten thousand killed and thousands more missing in action. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcm049 |