French colonial soldiers in German captivity during World War II /:

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...

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1. Verfasser: Scheck, Raffael, 1960- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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Zusammenfassung: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 strong demands for equal rights at the end of the war, leading to clashes with a colonial administration eager to reintegrate them into a discriminatory routine--
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ISBN:9781316147238
1316147231
9781107297869
1107297869
9781316150016
1316150011

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