POWs in the battle of France. French Colonial troops that fought well but were used by their German captors to humiliate British POWs by witholding food and medicines from British POWs while supplying what they saw as untermenchen ( this was not the SS but regular army ). Lest we forget.

 Tiraileurs

13th august 1944, Marseilles, Provence, South-eastern France.
A member of the local Résistance (apparently wounded) is expressing his happiness with a smiling soldier of the french army (note the french flag on the US helmet).

Brotherhood in arms

Marseilles, South-Eastern France, 23rd august 1944.
Soldiers of french army and civilians rejoycing.