(France 24) Stephanie Trouillard - As France crumbled under the Nazi invasion in June 1940, the German army engaged in a series of massacres against African soldiers in the Lyon region. New photos revealed by historian Julien Fargettas show captured Senegalese riflemen fighting for the French army, as German soldiers lead them into a field. The photos show some of a group of 40 soldiers who only had minutes to live, killed by machine-gun fire from Panzers positioned along a road. Nazi massacres of African soldiers "started at the end of May 1940, in the Somme region," Fargettas explained. "There was no order from high up saying that colonial prisoners of war should be killed or even ill-treated. It was impulsive, but the German military hierarchy did nothing to even try to stop it."
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