Picture: Tirailleurs Senegalais poster from tirailleursafricains.blogspot.comPapers unearthed by the BBC reveal that British and American commanders ensured that the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944 was seen as a "whites only" victory... the BBC's Document programme has seen evidence that black colonial soldiers - who made up around two-thirds of Free French forces - were deliberately removed from the unit that led the Allied advance into the French capital...
Read the sad story here: Paris liberation made 'whites only'
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