Hitler's African Victims

This book, first published in 2006, documents the German army massacres of thousands of black POWs belonging to units drafted in France's colonies.

This book documents the German army massacres of thousands of black POWs belonging to units drafted in France's colonies.

Autorentext
Raffael Scheck is Associate Professor for Modern European History at Colby College, where he has been teaching since 1994. He received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1993. He is the author of two other books, Alfred von Tirpitz and German Right-Wing Politics, 1914 1930 (1998) and Mothers of the Nation: Right-Wing Women in Weimar Germany (2004). Professor Scheck has published over a dozen articles on German right-wing politics, Swiss funding for Hitler, and the history of childhood.

Klappentext
When it invaded France in 1940, the German army massacred thousands of black POWs belonging to units drafted in France's colonies. The book for the first time documents these war crimes on the basis of extensive research in French and German archives. A massive Nazi propaganda offensive approved by Hitler, reviving traditional images of black soldiers as mutilating savages, formed the background for the massacres. Drawing from approaches for explaining genocides and war crimes, the book advances a nuanced interpretation of the motivation for these massacres.


Inhalt
1. The fate of black French soldiers in 1940; 2. The origin and evolution of the prejudice; 3. Ideological and situational factors; 4. Implications.

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