II-75. THESE MOROCCAN PRISONERS HAD BEEN EMPLOYED BY FRANCE AS DEFENDERS OF THE CIVILIZATION

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On every sector of the front the Germans were succeeding beyond their hopes. […] in France, the ss Death's Head Division saw action for the first time, when it was ordered to go to the assistance of Rommel's 7th Panzer Division near Cambrai. Their adversaries were French Moroccan troops, whose defence of several small villages was tenacious. The ss troops fought with an equal fury, killing two hundred Moroccans for the loss of only sixteen ss men.

From: Martin Gilbert, The Second World War, A Complete History, Herry Holt and Company, Inc., New York, 1989, pp. 68, 69.

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