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1920, "Black Shame" scandal
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- From 1920 to 1923, the German press, followed by the British and American press, denounced the crimes and, in particular, the rapes allegedly committed in the Rhineland by colonial soldiers of African origin, who had made up a small fraction (less than 1/5th) of the French occupation troops since 1919. The promoters of this racist campaign called for a ban on the use of colonial soldiers in Europe and for the reinforcement of segregation. French military investigations in 1921 showed most of the accusations to be unfounded. This racist crisis had two deadly consequences. The few children born in the Rhineland to colonial fathers, who had rarely been authorized by the French army to marry and recognize their mothers, were locked up and killed in Nazi concentration camps. During the May-June 1940 campaign in France, Nazi troops committed several targeted massacres of French colonial soldiers from sub-Saharan Africa.
- took place on or within | a eu lieu le ou dans l'intervalle de temps
- 1920
- had duration | a duré
- 3 years