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[–]asterias 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

This started earlier, as Africans were used as troops who often went after women and committed attrocities. During WWI, African forces were used against Europeans, especially by the French. During Spanish Civil War, African forces were used by Franco as well. During WWII, Germans used Africans in Greece and other places, where they committed massacres.

So the concept of using foreign troops when you don't have enough of your own gradually gave place to the concept of using foreign workers when you don't have enough of your own and so on.

[–]ayotollahsinIran 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

What atrocities and what massacres?

[–]asterias 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Communists in the Balkans would ambush a German soldier so that they would challenge the Germans to retaliate by burning nearby villages and killing their inhabitants. Afterwards, the communists would try to recruit the survivors and would murder them if they refused (or just murder them without further explanation).

In some of these massacres, the Africans of "Free Arabian Legion" were used.

[–]ayotollahsinIran 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Do you have an article at all about this?

[–]asterias 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agia_Lavra

It was built in the 10th century but was burnt to the ground in 1585 by the Turks. It was rebuilt in 1600 while the frescoes by Anthimos were completed in 1645. It was burnt again in 1715 and in 1826 by the armies of Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt. In 1850 after the rebirth of modern Greece, the building was completely rebuilt. The monastery was burned down by German forces in 1943.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Spilaio

According to tradition, the monastery is one of the oldest in Greece, reputedly founded in 362 by the Thessalonian brothers Symeon and Theodore, who with the help of Euphrosyne (a local shepherdess, honoured as saint for her part in these events) discovered in the cave the icon of the Theotokos painted by Luke the Evangelist.[1][2][3]

On 8 December 1943, the German 117th Jäger Division destroyed the monastery and executed 22 monks and visitors as part of reprisals that culminated a few days later with the Massacre of Kalavryta.[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distomo_massacre

On June 10, 1944, for over two hours, Waffen-SS troops of the 2nd company, I/7 battalion, 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division under the command of the 26-year-old SS-Hauptsturmführer Fritz Lautenbach went door to door and massacred Greek civilians as part of "savage reprisals" for a partisan attack upon the unit's convoy.[1] A total of 228 men, women and children were killed in Distomo,[2] a small village near Delphi.[3] According to survivors, SS forces "bayoneted babies in their cribs, stabbed pregnant women, and beheaded the village priest."[3]

(After the Germans left, the communists returned and murdered the survivors. Now the communists try to have any reference to their victims removed.)

And for WWI and the French occupation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_occupation_of_Thessaly

The chief military confrontation of the operation occurred when the French attempted to disarm the 1/38 Evzone Regiment in Larissa, under the command of Lt. Colonel Athanasios Frangos. The regiment refused to obey the command to surrender its weapons, and retreated west towards the mountains. The French launched Moroccan sipahis in pursuit of the unit, encircling it and forcing it to surrender after clashes (named "Battle of the Flag", as the Greeks carried the regimental standard with them) that claimed the lives of 59 Greek officers and soldiers, as well as seven killed and 15 wounded on the French side.[2][3]

At the same time the Allies issued an ultimatum to Constantine threatening to bombard Athens. As a result King Constantine I of Greece abdicated.

At least 200 royalist Greek MPs, municipal leaders, lawyers and doctors were introduced into a prison camp in Thessaloniki. The Thessaloniki concentration camp was surrounded by double rows of wire mesh, and the guard was made up of Cambodian and Senegalese soldiers.[2]

EDIT: Concerning the atrocities committed by the Arabs in Greece during WWII, there are articles in Greek with testimonies about their typical African behavior. However, articles in English tend to omit their presence and attribute all atrocities and massacres to "Germans".