The World's War: Foreign Legions

David Olusoga explores how Germany enlisted Muslims from north Africa and the Middle East to join the fight against Britain and its allies during the First World War. Muslim PoWs and deserters held in special camps in Germany were indoctrinated to see Kaiser Wilhelm II as a lover of Islam and a supporter of national independence wherever the British or French flags flew. General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck led an army of east African troops in an insurgency that cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of black troops.