Nearly one million Frenchmen were thus forced to spend the next five years in prisoner of war camps (about a third of the initial 1.5 million prisoners taken were released or exchanged as part of the Service du Travail Obligatoire forced labour programme by the Germans, before the war ended).
Næsten en million franskmænd var således tvunget til at tilbringe de næste fem år som krigsfanger (omkring en tredjedel af de 1½ mio. fanger blev frigivet af tyskerne, inden krigen sluttede).