How many black soldiers were there in WW1?

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>>3280747
The US had some:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/369th_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)

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>>3280747
Actually a decent few. Germany did not bring any to Europe iirc but did have a decent African division under Paul Von Lettow Vorbeck who held out in Tanzania until the very end of the war. Britian also used African soldiers in its African theatre.
France took a decent number of African soldiers to Europe and even Italy and American had quite a few black soldiers. So definitely a fair few.

>>3280747
The British used poo in loos on the Western front. Chapter in Storm of Steel about it

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Actually only 1 in 5 german soldiers was white.

>>3280747
Not enough, judging by the death tolls

>>3280760
Germany didn't have any complete black units, but there were some in the Arnies of Europe at the outbreak. Some members of African Royalty were actually trained at the Officer's school.

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Wasn't ww1 in europe mostly fought by blacks?

>>3280908
No

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>>3280747
Very few
Britain and France are the two nations that used the most of them, but even then, it was a very slight percentage
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>>3281335
All the soldiers of the French seem to come from non-white countries.

>>3281339
Are you a brainlet?

France
>Total: 8.6 millions troops
>Mainland troops: 7.8 millions (90.7%)
>Black colonies: 134,000+135,000+34,000+8,000 = 311,00 (3.6%)
>Arab colonies: 173,000+37,000+60,000 = 270,000 (3.14%)
>Asian colonies: 44,000 (0.47%)

And keep in mind that non-white were actually lower since lots of soldiers from colonies (especially Algeria) were white colonist)


Britain
>Total: 8.8 millions troops
>Mainland: 4 millions (45%)
>Indian colony: 1.78 millions (20%)
>White colonies: 421,000+100,000+620,000 = 1.14 millions (12%)
>Black colonies: 231,000+7,700+396,000 = 634,700 (7.16%)

About 200,000 Senegalese Tiralleurs served in Europe.

>>3281584
Which makes about 2% of French troops used in the conflict, 0.0something percent of allied troops in the war and don't get me started on the total

>>3281584
Why do you hate autonomous Europeans?

>>3280902
They had their Askaris in Africa and under the leadership of Vorbeck, they did well at harrassing the British emperial troops in east Africa

>>3281335
Brits
>Other Africans 396k/120k = 30.30303%

French
>West Africans 134k/60k = 44.78%
>Equatorial Africans 135k/45k = 33.33%

what the fuck were they were doing.