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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"
Prisoners of war during World War II faced vastly different fates due to the POW conventions adhered to or ignored, depending on the theater of conflict, and the behaviour of their captors. During the war approximately 35 million soldiers surrendered, with many held in the prisoner-of-war camps .
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.
Pages in category "French prisoners of war in World War II" The following 103 pages are in this category, out of 103 total.
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.
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. C. French civilians killed in World War II (100 P) M. French military personnel killed in World War ...
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]