French Colonial Soldiers in German Captivity During World War II

Discusses the experience of nearly 100,000 French colonial prisoners of war captured by Nazi Germany during World War II.

List of contents

Introduction: a soldier's story; 1. The start of captivity; 2. The colonial prisoners in Franco-German diplomacy; 3. The German treatment of the colonial prisoners in France; 4. French guards for colonial prisoners; 5. German propaganda for Muslim prisoners; 6. The labor of colonial prisoners; 7. The physical and mental state of the prisoners; 8. Human relations: co-prisoners and civilians; 9. Colonial prisoners and the end of the war; Conclusions.

About the author

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 French and German. The German edition was selected as the fourth best nonfiction book published in German in 2009 by a group of editors and journalists. He completed a habilitation at the University of Basel in 2003.

Summary

This book discusses the experience of French colonial prisoners of war captured by Nazi Germany during World War II. It shows that the colonial prisoners' contradictory experiences with French authorities, French civilians, and German guards led to clashes with a colonial administration eager to return to a discriminatory routine following the war.

Product details

• Authors: Raffael Scheck, Raffael (Colby College Scheck, Scheck Raffael
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781107692831
• ISBN: 978-1-107-69283-1
• No. of pages: 323
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, France, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Prisoners of War, Colonialism and imperialism, African History, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949