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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.
Italian soldiers taken prisoner by the Allies during Operation Compass (1941). Most prisoners, after being captured, spent the war in the prisoner of war camps.In the early phases of the war, following German occupation of much of Europe, Germany also found itself unprepared for the number of POWs it held.
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]
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.
French casualties of World War II (2 C, 1 P) Pages in category "French war casualties" ... This page was last edited on 9 January 2024, ...
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Interwar France covers the political, economic, diplomatic, cultural and social history of France from 1918 to 1939. France suffered heavily during World War I in terms of lives lost, disabled veterans and ruined agricultural and industrial areas occupied by Germany as well as heavy borrowing from the United States, Britain, and the French people.
World War II prisoners of war held by France ... out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. F. ... This page was last edited on 28 February 2024, ...