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French Colonial Soldiers in German Captivity during World War II
Raffael Scheck
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Description for French Colonial Soldiers in German Captivity during World War II
hardcover. Discusses the experience of nearly 100,000 French colonial prisoners of war captured by Nazi Germany during World War II. Num Pages: 336 pages, 16 b/w illus. 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTQ; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 660.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107056817
SKU
V9781107056817
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Ref
99-14
About Raffael Scheck
Raffael Scheck is Katz Distinguished Teaching Professor of Modern European History at Colby College, Maine. He is the author of five books and more than twenty articles on German history ranging from 1871 to 1945. In 2006, Scheck published the book Hitler's African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940 (Cambridge, 2006), which also appeared in ... Read more
Reviews for French Colonial Soldiers in German Captivity during World War II
'This book makes a great contribution to our understanding of the experiences of colonial POWs during WWII, which had significant repercussions on the postwar political development in the French empire. To date no study has dealt so extensively with the experiences of the French colonial prisoners of war. The fact that Raffael Scheck is also able to present the German ... Read more