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  2. Ethnic minorities in the United States Armed Forces during ...

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    Black people were an important source of manpower for the armed forces in World War II as is shown by the fact that a total of 1,056,841 African American registrants were inducted into the armed forces through Selective Service as of December 31, 1945. [41] Of these, 885,945 went into the Army, 153,224 into the Navy, 16,005 into the Marine ...

  3. Persecution of black people in Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

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    However, violence against black prisoners of war was also never prosecuted by Nazi authorities. [27] In prisoner-of-war camps, black soldiers were kept segregated from white and generally experienced worse conditions than their white comrades. Their conditions deteriorated further in the last days of the war. [25]

  4. African Americans in France - Wikipedia

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    During World War I roughly 200,000 African-American soldiers were brought over, most for non-combat duties. Nine-tenths of the soldiers were from the American South. [5] The 369th Infantry Regiment of New York, better known as the Harlem Hellfighters, were the first to arrive in France in 1917.

  5. Black Europeans - Wikipedia

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    Black people from the EU who have settled in the UK are also included such as the Black Anglo-Deutsch. Switzerland and Norway have 114,000 [ 19 ] and 115,000 people of Sub-Saharan African descent, respectively; primarily composed of refugees and their descendants, but this is only the numbers for first generation migrants and second generation ...

  6. Military history of African Americans - Wikipedia

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    Officer training continued to expand to create hundreds of African-American officers in all branches. Before the U.S. entered the war in 1941, there were only five black officers. By the end of the war, there were 7,000 In 1945, Frederick C. Branch became the first African-American United States Marine Corps officer.

  7. The Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II

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    [5] [6] The U.S. Army Center of Military History reported that it had no records “to prove or disprove that there were African American units that participated in the liberation of Dachau.” However, a Holocaust survivor said in an interview with Elliot Perlman that there were black troops present on the day of the liberation of Dachau. [7]

  8. Wehrmacht foreign volunteers and conscripts - Wikipedia

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    These units were all commanded by General Ernst August Köstring (1876−1953). [9] A lower estimate for the total number of foreign volunteers that served in the entire German armed forces (including the Waffen SS) is 350,000. [10] These units were often under the command of German officers and some published their own propaganda newssheets.

  9. African Americans in the Revolutionary War - Wikipedia

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    American states had to meet quotas of troops for the new Continental Army, and New England regiments recruited Black enslaved people by promising freedom to those who served in the Continental Army. During the course of the war, about one-fifth of the men in the northern army were Black. [17]