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, first published in 2006,
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. 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 non-white 'illegitimate combatants' in colonial wars.
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