Morts Pour La France’; The African Soldier in France during the Second World War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8976357 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Myron Echenberg (McGill University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 363-380 |
| Publication date | 1985-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853700028796 |
| OpenAlex | W2147897916 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 13 |
The involvement of African combatants in France from 1939 to 1945 probably surpassed the large mobilization of an earlier generation during the First World War. Carefully prepared ideologically and well received by the French public, Africans nevertheless paid a heavy price in lives and suffering as soldiers during the Battle of France and as prisoners of the Germans. Liberation brought a new set of tribulations, including discriminatory treatment from French authorities. These hardships culminated in a wave of African soldiers' protests in 1944–5, mainly in France, but including the most serious rising, the so-called mutiny at Thiaroye, outside Dakar, where thirty-five African soldiers were killed. The war's impact was ambiguous. Tragedies like Thiaroye sent shock waves throughout French West Africa, delegitimizing naked force as a political instrument in post-war politics and sweeping away an older form of paternalism. Yet while a militant minority were attracted to more radical forms of political and trade-union organization, most African veterans reaffirmed their loyalties to the French State, which ultimately paid their pensions
Ancient history · Battle · Economic history · Militant · Mutiny · Paternalism · Political science · Politics · Spanish Civil War · World War II · African history and culture studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · North African History and Literature
France and its colonial civil wars, 1940–1945
Africa and the Second World War
A History of Algeria
Irregular Moroccan Units in a Regular War
Black Germany
The Vichy Government and French Colonial Prisoners of War,1940-1944
Europe Is No Longer Europe
Salt is Gold
Black Africans in World War II
Recycling Recognition
The French Army in Politics, 1945–62. Par J. S. Ambler. Columbus
La France au XX^e Siecle
Six Armies in Normandy
L'appel a l'Afrique
The French Theory of the Nation in Arms 1866–1939
The History of the French First Army
History of West Africa
Political Parties in French-Speaking West Africa
"The "Black Horror on the Rhine
African Soldiers in World War II
Les Migrations militaires en Afrique occidentale française, 1900-1945
Paying the Blood Tax
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1992 - 2020 (29) |
| Highly cited | No |