34,000 of these Malagasy conscripts were in France when it capitulated in the summer of 1940 with an additional 72,000 still in Madagascar awaiting transport to Europe.
這些馬達加斯加應徵入伍者中有34,000人是在1940年夏天投降的法國，另有72,000人仍然在馬達加斯加等待前往歐洲。