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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Main Author: McKale, Donald (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2007
In: Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 21, Issue: 3, Pages: 516-518
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