I’m flabbergasted by this BBC Report: news.bbc.co.uk/…
Papers 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 story tells us
The leader of the Free French forces, Charles de Gaulle, made it clear that he wanted his Frenchmen to lead the liberation of Paris. Allied High Command agreed, but only on one condition: De Gaulle's division must not contain any black soldiers.
...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.
Just FYI, in World War II, 2.5 million Indians fought in the British Indian Army against the Axis powers; the British Indian Army earned 17 Victoria crosses.
