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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 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.
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
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 ...
The Black Death made it much more difficult for the kingdom to pay the war subsidy that had been agreed in late 1347. [10] By the second half of 1349, France's spending on war had decreased as the Black Death had spread to England by this point and led to a pause in fighting. [11]
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 .
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.
French casualties of World War II (2 C, 1 P) Pages in category "French war casualties" ... Mort pour la France