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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.
The Kingdom of France had the largest population of Europe at the time, and the Black Death was a major catastrophe. The plague killed roughly 50,000 people in Paris, which made up about half of the city's population. [3] The Black Death in France was described by eyewitnesses, such as Louis Heyligen, Jean de Venette, and Gilles Li Muisis.
On 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed when 643 civilians, including non-combatant men, women, and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company as collective punishment for Resistance activity in the area including the capture and subsequent execution of a close friend of Waffen-SS ...
Articles related to massacres in France during World War II (1939-1945). Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. O. Oradour-sur-Glane ...
Pages in category "French civilians killed in World War II" The following 100 pages are in this category, out of 100 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
By MORGAN WHITAKER Monday marks the 70th anniversary of the day allied forces in World War II liberated Paris from Adolf Hitler's control. The capital had been under Nazi occupation for more than ...
28 March – British Commandos raid St Nazaire on the coast of Western France. 5 May – Battle of Madagascar begins, Allied campaign to capture Vichy French-controlled Madagascar during World War II. 26 May – Battle of Bir Hakeim begins, First Free French Division defends the site against the Italian and German Afrika Korps.
Otherwise notable people killed serving with the French armed forces during World War II. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.