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French World War II films (98 P) Pages in category "French war films" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
French films about World War I (1914–1918). Pages in category "French World War I films" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
On 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed when 643 civilians, including non-combatant men, women, and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company as collective punishment for Resistance activity in the area including the capture and subsequent execution of a close friend of Waffen-SS ...
The Chasselay massacre was the mass killing of French prisoners of war by German Army and Waffen-SS soldiers during the Battle of France in World War II.After capturing non-white French POWs during the capture of Lyon on 19 June 1940, German troops took approximately 50 black soldiers to a field near Chasselay, and used two tanks to murder them.
During World War II, Franz von Werra escaped from Canada and rejoined the Luftwaffe, while a few others escaped from American camps, but remained in the United States.) September 2 and 12, 1918 – John Owen Donaldson and another prisoner escaped, but were recaptured. The pair were joined by three others for a second try a few days later.
The End of the War (1984), at the end of World War II, a Serbian man takes his son to search for and kill five members of the Croatian Ustaše militia who tortured and killed his wife; A Youth Orchestra (1985) Odlazak ratnika, povratak maršala (1986), TV series; Lager Niš (1987), Nazi death camp in Niš, Serbia
Several British prisoners were able to escape, while a few others, like Fahey, were left for dead. [5] Captain Lynn-Allen died while trying to escape, although he enabled Private Bert Evans to escape; Evans was the last survivor of the massacre. [6] [7] A total of 80 men were killed.
Between 6.6–9 million soldiers surrendered and were held in prisoner-of-war camps during World War I. [1] [2]25–31% of Russian losses (as a proportion of those captured, wounded, or killed) were to prisoner status, for Austria-Hungary 32%, for Italy 26%, for France 12%, for Germany 9%; for Britain 7%.