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French Colonial Soldiers in German Captivity During World War II

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French Colonial Soldiers in German Captivity during World War II - Scheck, Raffael
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This book discusses the experience of nearly 100,000 French colonial prisoners of war captured by Nazi Germany during World War II. Raffael Scheck shows that the German treatment of French colonial soldiers improved dramatically after initial abuses, leading the French authorities in 1945 to believe that there was a possible German plot to instigate a rebellion in the French empire. Scheck illustrates that the colonial prisoners' contradictory experiences with French authorities, French civilians, and German guards created ...

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French Colonial Soldiers in German Captivity during World War II 2018, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781107692831

Trade paperback

French Colonial Soldiers in German Captivity During World War II 2014, Cambridge University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9781107056817

Hardcover