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Hitler's African victims : the German Army massacres of Black French soldiers in 1940 / Raffael Scheck.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scheck, Raffael, 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--France.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
- Black people--Nazi persecution--France.
- Black people.
- Prisoners of war--Germany--History--20th century.
- Prisoners of war.
- History.
- Black people--Nazi persecution.
- Germany.
- Prisoners of war--Africa, West--History--20th century.
- West Africa.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 202 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Contents:
- 1 The Fate of Black French Soldiers in 1940 17
- From the "Phony War" to the "Sickle Cut" 17
- The Battles on the Somme 23
- The Destruction of the 4th Colonial Infantry Division in the Oise 28
- Massacres in the Pursuit of French Forces 33
- After the Battles 41
- The Problems of Counting the Victims 53
- The Question of Authorization 60
- German Justifications 67
- 2 The Origin and Evolution of the Prejudice 81
- The Colonial Wars 81
- The Fear of Franc-tireurs 85
- The Debate on the Use of Black Troops in European Wars 88
- The Deployment of Tirailleurs Senegalais in the First World War 93
- The "Black Horror" on the Rhine 98
- The Nazi Propaganda Offensive against France 101
- The Effects of Antiblack Propaganda on the Army 112
- 3 Ideological and Situational Factors 118
- German Inconsistencies 118
- The Role of Nazi Ideology 121
- The Mutilation Charge 126
- Close Combat and Hedgehog Positions 131
- The Tenacity of Tirailleurs Senegalais 134
- Unexpected Resistance 137
- Assessing Situational Factors versus Racial Prejudice 142
- 4 Implications 145
- The Third Reich and Black Africans 145
- The Nazification and Barbarization of the Wehrmacht 149
- The Responsibility of the French Military Leadership 157
- Memory 161
- Archival Sources 167
- Periodicals 170
- Published Primary Sources, Memoirs, Contemporary Works 170.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-198) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521857996
- OCLC:
- 60796147
- Online:
- Publisher description
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