UTW 77

Two French colonial black Senegalese soldiers, captured by the German Nazi Wehrmacht Army, and executed June 19-20, 1940, near Lyons, France 

Media: Pencil, watercolor, ink, thread, colored pencil
Framed: 27.5 inches H x 23. 5 W, 69.85 cm. H x 59.69 W
art: Under the Wings (series) artwork 77, begun Feb. 11, 2023; completed March 21

An info page on the Wehrmacht murder of these French colonial POW's by is readable in the NationalWW2museum.org website (the National WW2 Museum is in New Orleans, Louisiana) https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/chasselay-massacre-june-1940 / The architectural imagery in the large (white paper background)

sea monster, upper left, was drawn from a 1940-era photo of the Hotel Terminus in Lyons, France, seen in the website Holocaust Education (and) Archive Research Team: http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupation/barbie.html

The two soldiers were drawn from a photo seen in the Imperial War Museum, London (UK) website.  

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The two were among 100 black French colonial Senegalese soldiers captured and murdered by officers and troops of the Nazi Wehrmacht army during those 2 days.  

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The architectural imagery in the large (white paper background) sea monster, upper left, was drawn from 1940 photos of the Hotel Terminus in Lyons, France. The hotel was the Gestapo headquarters of the occupying Nazi military and civil authorities. Reference the 1987 documentary movie "Hotel Terminus- The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie,' directed by French - American documentary director Marcel Ophuls. (I do not recommend this movie for school children. The only Holocaust themed movie I recommend to teachers for school children is (the 1987 film) "Au Revoir Les Enfants" (Goodbye Children), directed by late French movie director Louis Malle. Malle was a pupil in a French school; his best friend was one of the Jewish children who the schoolhead posed as a Christian to try and help save that child's life. The Jewish children and the school head, Pere Jacques, were eventually reported to the Nazis and they were murdered. See UTW 63: Pere Jacques of France, Righteous Person. 

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The Third Reich's racial supremacy laws and religious hate included mass murder of Jewish and Romani and Sinti peoples throughout Europe, blacks, gays, Polish Catholics, the disabled of Germany and Austria (in the Aktion T-4 genocide which paved the way for the Holocaust), and among others, common criminals, captured Allied service personnel, Righteous People who tried to save Jewish and other victims of the Nazis and those who tried to assist Righteous People. Among the victims were Catholic and Protestant clergy. Concurrently, the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches of Germany and Austria were aligned with the Third Reich in the mass murders and genocide. 

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An info page on this murder by the Wehrmacht army, readable in the NationalWW2museum.org website (the National WW2 Museum is in New Orleans, Louisiana) https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/chasselay-massacre-june-1940  

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Art, video © A K Segan
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