Author to speak at Black History Month event The public is invited to take part in Erasing the Silence: The Story of an Afro-Caribbean in the Nazi Era, on Feb. 6, from 2 to 3:30 p.m., at the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center, 8339 Old York Road, Elkins Park.
Black POWs in Nazi Captivity: History
The Third Reich’s treatment of black soldiers was harsh, in keeping with its doctrine of racial superiority.
Here s What You Need to Know: The Nazi agenda of biological racism found general assent throughout the German population and eventually transferred to the treatment of black POWs.
On May 13, 1940, the German army invaded France, crossing the River Meuse at Sedan. Upon France’s capitulation, the Franco-German armistice was signed on June 22, and a portion of France was placed under German occupation, with the remaining area ostensibly left to its own, with the Vichy collaborationist government in control.