1954 - 1962: Algerian War, words of soldiers

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Demonstration of veterans in Paris

Publication date 06/04/1994 From €100.00

1954 - 1962: Algerian War, words of soldiers

Demonstration of Algerian and African veterans in Paris, to demand the revaluation of their pensions, and the recognition of their status as veterans like those of the Second World War and Indochina. Their slogan: mobilized at the age of 20, forgotten for thirty years. - - TGP of flags then PE "forest of flags". - - ITW by Edouard COSSET (who spent 28 months in Algeria and is unemployed at the end of his rights). - - DP protesters / GP medals on chest / sign with inscription "card of combatant" (which is part of the demands of the protesters). - - ITW by Raymond MARY (War Veteran 39-45, supporting protesters). - - View of the march in CPL (marching demonstrators).

Exmes: Veterans Flame

Publication date 21/09/1997 From €100.00

1954 - 1962: Algerian War, words of soldiers

Algeria’s alumni continue their relay of remembrance through France 35 years the Evian agreements a relay that crosses the 3 departments Lower Normandy; the flame left Marseilles in the spring after crossing 92 departments will arrive in October at the memorial of Notre-Dame de Lorette where for 20 years the Unknown Soldier of Algeria rests.

Algerian War: testimony of a recalled

Publication date 20/03/1982 From €100.00

1954 - 1962: Algerian War, words of soldiers

Twenty years after the end of the Algerian War, a recalled veteran and combatant, Robert BONNAUD, of the 3rd RIA, evokes the movement of protest of the recalls of 1955-1956 against the Algerian War, of civilians married with a profession, having already completed their period of military service, recalled to fight in Algeria, they felt that they were a personal victim and that they were victims of a political scam because during the electoral campaign of the general elections of 1956 , the Republican Front and the communists had campaigned for peace in Algeria. This is the only mass movement against the Algerian War.

The Algerian War: testimony, ten years later

Publication date 02/02/1968 From €100.00

1954 - 1962: Algerian War, words of soldiers

Meeting with René, a worker, was in Grande Kabylie between 1957 and 1959. "I wonder what I did there. Nothing to gain, I lost two years." He tells of an ambush in a helicopter. Group photo in front of helicopter. It evokes the objects brought back and scattered and shows a wall carpet representing a lion. "We thought it was useful, but now... If we had abandoned Algeria from the beginning rather than go and sow the shit to have no result..." LABRO asks if he has any regrets: "We were saving our skin. It taught me how to use guns, that’s all."

Paris: inauguration of a monument to the dead of the Algerian War

Publication date 04/12/2002 From €100.00

1954 - 1962: Algerian War, words of soldiers

In Paris, at the moment when the inuaguration of the monument to the dead of the Algerian War is being prepared by Jacques CHIRAC, meeting forty years after the events with the former infantryman and called Serge DROUOT, he remembers the former schoolmates who died in Algeria, his thirst for adventure and discovery at the age of 20, this mysterious and contrasting land.

Twenty years later: trauma of the Algerian War among veterans

Publication date 20/03/1982 From €100.00

1954 - 1962: Algerian War, words of soldiers

Twenty years after the end of the Algerian War, testimony of Yann LE MASSON, of the 35th RI, member of the Communist Party on his participation as a called to the Algerian War, on ill-being, illness and depression during the year that followed his return from Algeria: he had even broken with the Communist Party, was constantly fighting for nothing after his return to civilian life, was arrested several times for assault and battery. He got away with working with people who were helping Algerians in France and directing a film "J'ai huit ans" followed by the testimony of Pierre MIMEAU, from the 457th GAA, wounded during an ambush, treated in a hospital in Algiers, rewarded by General Huet when he woke up after four days of coma and had surgery.

Algerian war: problem of supervision of the called

Publication date 25/04/1978 From €100.00

1954 - 1962: Algerian War, words of soldiers

After the screening of Yves BOISSET’s film, "RAS", Alain JEROME moderates a debate on the subject involving several veterans. The latter evoke several wars in Algeria depending on the period, the place of assignment and the missions of the contingents. Opinion of Michel PETETIN, member of the Association des combattants l'Union française", Yves COURRIERE, writer journalist evoking the problem of supervision of the called.

Not a single Algerian War but, several Algerian wars

Publication date 25/04/1978 From €100.00

1954 - 1962: Algerian War, words of soldiers

After the screening of Yves BOISSET’s film, "RAS", Alain JEROME moderates a debate on the subject involving several veterans. The latter evoke several wars in Algeria depending on the period, the place of assignment and the missions of the contingents. Opinion of Jacques GOUJAT, member of the association "Les combattants d'Algérie Tunisie et Maroc" and of the writer Jean Yves ALQUIER, the problem of gearing, what we are able to do with anyone with certain techniques.

Alban Liechti, sentenced by the military court for refusal of obedience

Publication date 29/06/1989 From €100.00

1954 - 1962: Algerian War, words of soldiers

Conscientious objection among those called during the Algerian War: testimony of one of them, Alban LIECHTI, young called in 1956, Sentenced for disobedience by the military court in Algiers to two two years in prison His testimony is interspersed with photos and bench titles of newspapers of the time.

Montredon: monument to the dead of the Algerian War

Publication date 09/09/1990 From €100.00

1954 - 1962: Algerian War, words of soldiers

Report on the conscripts of the contingent in Algeria: in Montredon in the Tarn, 4 boys from the village killed in Algeria and veterans who remember but do not talk about it. A war memorial was built in the forest to honour the fallen soldiers. Testimonies of the so-called René CAMP, who became a postman, Guy OULES, 51 years old, a former student before his military service, who became a carpenter after the war like his father, he recalls having presented the honors to the flag of the NLA

Algerian War: Testimony of a Veteran on Acts of Torture Against Prisoners

Publication date 20/03/1982 From €100.00

1954 - 1962: Algerian War, words of soldiers

Twenty years after the end of the Algerian War, testimony of Pierre MIMEAU, of the 457th GAA, wounded during an ambush, on his participation as called to the Algerian War, He mentions in particular his participation in night operations and having witnessed the attitude of some gendarmes towards Algerian prisoners, acts of torture by gendarmes on prisoners, "they were giving batons on their parts"(...)"as he refused to speak he was shot and beheaded" and his captain, replied that he had seen nothing.

Algerian War: The Sweeps, Memories of an Elder Called, Ten Years Later

Publication date 02/02/1968 From €100.00

1954 - 1962: Algerian War, words of soldiers

In the area of Ville d'Avray, meeting with Philippe, a former called present in Algeria during the war in 1957-1958, remembers night sweeping operations to control identities, without brutality, but what strikes him is the nature of the called in this situation as if they had repeated gestures seen during the Second World War.

Algerian War: Memories of a former sub-lieutenant

Publication date 02/02/1968 From €100.00

1954 - 1962: Algerian War, words of soldiers

Meeting in Nantes with Jean Pierre, 34 years old, commercial director, former sub-lieutenant in 1957 during the Algerian War with Senegalese tirailleurs near the Moroccan border has kept relations with an extraordinary captain with an endearing personality, a former indigenous affairs officer with a taciturn character, guys who lived a lot in the desert, with great courage. His participation in the war formed him and made him aware of many things, he the bourgeois student, as the relativity of certain concepts. He now recalls these events with nostalgia because he was 24 years old at the time with a feeling of total futility and guilt.

Algerian War: were there to defend the big settler

Publication date 20/03/1982 From €100.00

1954 - 1962: Algerian War, words of soldiers

Twenty years after the end of the Algerian War, veterans and those called to Algeria, during a meeting of the village of Saint Pardoux in Gâtinais, some evoke their feelings: "we were not combatants like those of 39-40, but jokers", "we were there for the big settler", the bitterness of defeat, the waste of time, were there to defend the big settler and the Arab, he had to die in his henhouse. For some, after 28 months it’s there, it’s a failure because they lost their French Algeria, that’s the bitterness felt. Another wondered what he was doing there, with the OAS regiments, they would hit each other

Algerian War: cold shower and feeling of having been deceived after the referendum of self-determination

Publication date 20/03/1982 From €100.00

1954 - 1962: Algerian War, words of soldiers

Twenty years after the Algerian War, a veteran called and combatant testifies to the feeling of cold water and of having been duped after the decision of General de Gaulle to organize a referendum of self-determination of Algeria: knowing that we were deceived after the deaths among the French soldiers and for the Algerians, also, for some of whom the harkis, to have fought for nothing, would have agreed to fight for an independent Algeria, he remembers that the general came in 1960 to go around the general’s popottes with the slogan, Algeria will remain attached to France, you fight for a just cause.

Algerian War: Treatment of Algerian Prisoners by the Called

Publication date 02/02/1968 From €100.00

1954 - 1962: Algerian War, words of soldiers

In the area of Ville d'Avray, meeting with Philippe, a former called present in Algeria during the war in 1957-1958, he evokes how any called could play for hours with the prisoners for fun, This is where the torture begins, Any caller was having fun. These events come back to him during his insomnia and he sees himself acting differently as he should have reacted at the time.

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