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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.
Jewish community of Toulon killed as part of the Black Death Jewish persecutions: Jacquerie: June 1358: Northern France 20,000 Peasants, aristocracy and nobility Peasant Jacquerie rebels massacre hundreds of noblemen, women and children. Some 20,000 peasants are in turn exterminated by nobles Siege of Limoges: 19 September 1370: Limoges: 200–400
The Thiaroye massacre [a] was a massacre of French West African soldiers, committed by the French Army on the morning of 1 December 1944 near Dakar, French Senegal.Those killed were members of the Tirailleurs Sénégalais, and were veterans of the 1940 Battle of France who had been recently liberated from prison camps in Europe.
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 ...
1346–1353 spread of the Black Death in Europe map. The Black Death was present in France between 1347 and 1352. [1] The bubonic plague pandemic, known as the Black Death, reached France by ship from Italy to Marseille in November 1347. [2] From Marseille, the Black Death spread first through Southern France, and then continued outwards to ...
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 ...
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.