ADOLF HITLER GERMANY'S DISARMAMENT MAY 17TH 1933 - SPEECH

Following Germany's defeat in World War I, French and British troops occupied portions of Germany to ensure that reparations would be repaid. In some areas such as the Rhineland, France utilized colonial troops from North Africa for patrolling and occupying—possibly serving as an act of further humiliation—making the local Germans be subject to those who were, in turn, subject to a colonial power.At the forefront was the belief that African troops, racially portrayed as oversexed and primal, were ravaging German women.
Black Rapist Soldiers Rhineland 1920.

Russian Soldier WW2.
What happened to the civilians during these retreats, did they come with you?
Mikailov: It was ordered by STAVKA that all civilians retreat with our armies, though many refused or could not. I would witness many long columns of old and young moving east, sometimes holding up our military and preventing movement. They had to be removed off the roads sometimes by threat of force so we could get through. Something strange I saw was that the enemy seemed to go out of their way to not attack these columns when they could see they were civilians. An artillery battery was trying to get through and the bombers avoided targeting them, which surprised me. They did hit them later on as they were on a bridge that was only for military traffic. They destroyed the bridge and the battery, but our engineers quickly rebuilt the bridge.
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