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 1845 to believe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Scheck, Raffael, 1960- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press 2014.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39761319*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The start of captivity
  • The colonial prisoners in Franco-German diplomacy
  • The German treatment of the colonial prisoners in France
  • French guards for colonial prisoners
  • German propaganda for Muslim prisoners
  • The labor of colonial prisoners
  • The physical and mental state of the prisoners
  • Human relations: co-prisoners and civilians
  • Colonial prisoners and the end of the war.