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African Colonial Prisoners of the Germans: A Pictorial History of Captive Soldiers in the World Wars

African Colonial Prisoners of the Germans: A Pictorial History of Captive Soldiers in the World Wars

Paperback

General SociologyWorld War IWorld War II

ISBN10: 1476665451
ISBN13: 9781476665450
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Jun 20 2016
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.90
Language: English

Through both World Wars, young African conscripts from Senegal, Algeria, Morocco, the Congo and elsewhere found themselves fighting for their colonial rulers, facing unknown enemies in unknown lands. German soldiers regarded their African enemies with a mixture of curiosity and malice, sometimes posing for snapshots with black POWs, sometimes summarily executing them on the battlefield. Mistreated by their own commanders during wartime, African troops had to fight for equal postwar compensation.

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