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The Second World War and the Indochina Workers in France: from Forced Migration to Forced Labor

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2014, (30), pp.261~289
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

JAE-WON LEE 1

1연세대학교

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ABSTRACT

The history concerning the Indochina workers in France has been a dismissed subject for a long time. While the problem of Korean and Chinese workers forced by Japanese government during World War II had repercussions all over the world, the destiny of Indochina draftees did not draw attention of contemporaries. From 1939 until June 1940, when France was defeated by German, more than 9 thousand Indochinese were drafted to the infantry and more than 20 thousand Vietnamese came to France as laborer voluntarily or by force. Some of them could returned to their country after liberation, but more than 14 thousand Indochinese had to stay in France, forced to work for Vichy, or for French private enterprises. Under the strict military discipline, held in camps with poor nutrition and overwork, Indochinese laborers often became victims of violence, imprisonment, and tuberculosis, more than thousand of whom died before the French liberation. As the historian Gilles Manceron referred, revealing this unknown event is not about the ‘repentance’ but about the recognition of historic reality.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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