Jean-Marie Domenach, co-founder of the Committee of Intellectuals for a Europe of Freedoms (CIEL), explains its creation: "We realized that we had to defend culture ... Europe will only exist when, in Prague as in Paris, one can write and think freely. But our manifesto is not at all directed against Marxism or against Eastern Europe. It is directed against a single force that attacks culture to make it the servant of the state bureaucracy or of consumption"
To the question whether he stays in Oran after the last dramatic events, Mr BALZA, trader, answers: "I stay because I was born here, my mother was born here. My grandparents came here over 30 years ago ... I have always lived among the Arabs, without the need for an Algerian republic. I, the Arabs, have always considered them as equals ...".
Testimony of Jacqueline TEYSSIER, a Parisian who had to wear the yellow star at the age of 19: "It was something atrocious... We suffered terribly... All public places were forbidden to us..."
On the plateau of Josy EISENBERG, Father Patrick DESBOIS, who investigated on the spot for 10 years and wrote a book on the subject, talks about the "Shoah by bullets" in Ukraine during the Second World War, from 1941 to 1944... He gives chilling details about the massacres, and evokes the complicity of some Ukrainians: "It was a bullet per Jew, no more, and back... Some victims were only wounded, then buried alive... Babies and old people were systematically thrown alive into the pits... The Nazis, the German police, the German gendarmerie, and the Wehrmacht, sometimes acted with the cooperation and complicity of the Ukrainian police..."
On the occasion of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the death of President KENNEDY, the journalist Philippe LABRO, who was in Dallas on 22 November 1963 and who has been interested in this matter for all these years, comes to present his book "They shot at the President". He sweeps the different conspiracy theories ("There are very interesting, very logical, very intelligent conspiracy hypotheses, but... no evidence, no credible witness") and affirms without a doubt that Lee Harvey OSWALD is indeed the culprit: "All the most precise, concrete, verified and re-verified evidence indicates that it is Oswald, for sure... Oswald guilty, this is not an hypothesis, it’s a certainty! We have the fingerprints, we have his itinerary, we have the gun, we have the testimony of his wife Marina... Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy... let’s stop fantasizing!"
A young black foot reflects his nostalgia for Algeria, two years after his repatriation. He quotes: colourful clothing, better salaries ... He explains that his project is to settle in the South to find the sun.
The book "Mein Kampf", which has fallen into the public domain, will give rise to a new translation, critical French edition. Catherine MAURER, professor of contemporary history at the Faculty of Strasbourg, as well as Olivier MANNONI, the translator, defends the critical reissue of the book. The translator explains why he accepted the task: to remove the work from his pedestal, because it enjoys an important influence in extreme right circles as well as in jihadist circles.
A journalist (who does not appear in the picture) seeks to buy "Mein kampf" in a bookshop that markets far-right literature, banned books, revisionist books. The bookseller details the editions available
André Hugel, an Alsatian passionate about history, presents a copy of Hitler’s "Mein Kampf", found in the family archives. The book, offered to the Alsatian newlyweds in the 40s, is certainly found in numbers in families in Alsace according to him.
"Mein Kampf", written by Adolf Hitler, has just been translated into Hebrew by Professor Moshe ZIMMERMANN, from the University of Jerusalem. He made his students study the book without creating a controversy. As for Joseph COHEN, professor of Hebrew, he considers it important to read Hitler’s writings, in order to combat anti-Semitism.
The Palace of Versailles is in danger, a victim of years and the deterioration of the stone. The railings are crumbling and infiltrations threaten the frameworks, like the Royal Opera. To prepare for the emergency, scaffolding was installed in the Hall of Mirrors, pending restoration funding.