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French prisoners of war being marched away from the front, May 1940. Although no precise estimates exist, the number of French soldiers captured by Nazi Germany during the Battle of France between May and June 1940 is generally recognised around 1.8 million, equivalent to around 10 percent of the total adult male population of France at the time.
French prisoners of war (6 C, ... 3 P) French casualties of World War II (2 C, 1 P) Pages in category "French war casualties"
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.
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.
The Le Paradis massacre was a World War II war crime committed by members of the 14th Company, SS Division Totenkopf, under the command of Hauptsturmführer Fritz Knöchlein. It took place on 27 May 1940, during the Battle of France , at a time when troops of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) were attempting to retreat through the Pas-de ...
Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism personnel killed in action (5 P) Pages in category "French military personnel killed in World War II" The following 70 pages are in this category, out of 70 total.
World War II deaths by country World War II deaths by theater. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history.An estimated total of 70–85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the estimated global population of 2.3 billion in 1940. [1]
In total numbers, the deaths included 478,000 Austro-Hungarian prisoners, 122,000 Germans, 38,963 French in Germany. [7] [8] 411,000 prisoners died in Russia (the majority of them Austro-Hungarian), [9] and more than 100,000 Italian prisoners out of 350,000 in Austria-Hungary. [10] About 8% of Russians imprisoned by the Central Powers died. [11]