The Fortress of Bir Hakeim served as one of the most important strongholds of the Free French Army against General Erwin Rommel’s Panzerarmee Afrika. In May 1942 around 3700 soldiers of the 1st Free ...
A new investigation found the 1944 Thiaroye attack on ‘unarmed’ African soldiers was ‘premeditated’, and far deadlier than ...
A 1944 massacre by French forces of African troops demanding pay in Senegal was "premeditated" and "covered up", with previous death tolls vastly underestimated, according to an official report seen ...