Twenty years later: trauma of the Algerian War among veterans

Twenty years later: trauma of the Algerian War among veterans

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.

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File : 1954 - 1962: Algerian War, words of soldiers

Publication date : 20 March 1982