This document was uploaded by our user. The uploader already confirmed that they had the permission to publish it. Report DMCA. Raffael Scheck shows that the German treatment of French colonial soldiers improved dramatically after initial abuses, leading the French authorities in 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 a discriminatory routine.
He completed a habilitation at the University of Basel in Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.
A catalog record for this publication is available from the British Library. World War, ——Prisoners and prisons, German. Prisoners of war—Germany—History—20th century. Prisoners of war—France— History—20th century. Troupes coloniales—History—World War, — France—Colonies—Africa—History, Military—20th century. Conditions during this trip were cruel for all prisoners, including white French and British POWs, but they were particularly terrible for colonial prisoners.
Dietrich Klose, www. Stadtarchiv Dortmund. Senghor stayed here and in similar camps during the summer and early fall of Until July , white French and colonial prisoners were kept in the same camps in occupied France. This was a typical main camp of a Frontstalag, but after March , most Frontstalag prisoners worked outside these camps, in smaller work commandos up to kilometers away from the main camp. The main camp was responsible for many services mail, supplies, card catalog of the prisoners, hospitals , and prisoners would periodically return to it, for example in the fall when there was little work in agriculture.
