Algerian War of Independence 1954-1962 - Cold War DOCUMENTARY
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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video on the Algerian War of 1954-1962 also known as Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence, as France and the Algerian National Liberation Front fought to decide the fate of Algeria.
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Proud that my grandfather died fighting for his country . Long live Algeria 🇩🇿
Rest in peace from Turkey
Based grand father. Rip bro!
اللهم آته جنة الفردوس
شهيد.
Be proud of that, now some algerian are proud that their grandpa fought for France to get french citizenship. Tahia El Djazair
True fact! The Vietnamese are the Algerians biggest cheerleaders!
and vice versa , the Vietnamese struggle is taught enthusiastically in algrian schools and hailed as the role model of their own revolution
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend, even if I never met the guy"
Don't forget the Afghans.
it takes one to know one
the Algerians and the Vietnamese had the same battle and both pushed thro with the absolute force of courage and won
easily the 2 greatest revolutions of the 20th century
Philipines is better 100% vietnam worst kontry in asia
اكبر تحيه لأبطال وشهداء الجزائر 🇩🇿❤🇪🇬
اخوتنا المصريين اكثر من ساعدنا شكرا شكرا صح ان هذا ادى الى الهجوم الثلاثي على مصر وقتل شهداء منكم فشكرا💗💗
The number of Algerians who were killed in the massacres of May 8, 1945 was 45,000 according to French statistics or 90,000 according to American statistics. In fact, France promised to give independence to Algeria, but after its victory in World War II, it broke the promise.
Le nombre de martyres algériens de 1830 à 1962 dépasse largement le chiffre de 5.400.000 martyres la France colonniale a exterminé tout un peuple.
source
@@smal750en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9tif_and_Guelma_massacre
You can find all the information about it here (including sources)
@@smal750bro just google how many algerian died in 8 mays 1945
Its the first text that you will see
@@smal750 It's a very known fact, you can find many sources about it anywhere on the internet and pick the one you like, just write 8th Mai 1945 Algeria
38 members of my family died in this war. our elders talked about how cruel it was and im so proud of them .
That's a lot
@@comradekenobi6908 some of them died in battle others been executed and few never been found .
@@ramzimohamed3146 God give them a good afterlife
@@comradekenobi6908 i wish either. thanks
@Mike J i never would but alot of us do. thats a fact and ashame of us . I even against immigration
"The war even collapsed an entire French Republic." Not exactly as high bar as one might expect
Some Frenchman on a Wednesday: smoke a cigarette
5 minutes later: political turmoil achieved.
Indeed
@@joeblow9657 correction, some Frenchman on Wednesday did NOT smoke a cigarette. We all know they use their crippling nicotine addiction as a vice to control their crippling political instability addiction.
@@joeblow9657 correction, it was a Saturday 😁
*French empire, 12 African states gained their independence because of the Algerian independence revolution - And ended the 4th Republic.
Long live Algeria my country and the country of my father and the country of my grandfathers who fought like brave men for our freedom ✌️🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇩🇿🇩🇿🇵🇸
It's an illusion. The whole thing is pointless. You are fighting for apartheid
Brace yourself for another ass whole nation trying to hold on to their illegal action
The Algerians did not adhere to the Crémieux Law of 1872, unlike the Jews. Who accepted French law to rule by secularism instead of ruling by religion. Then the Jews began to enjoy their full rights with the French, while the Algerians were subjected to racism. Until Ben Badis arrived and taught the youth the correct Islamic doctrine and disavowal of polytheism, disavowal of supplications to the graves, and disavowal of infidels, not as they were according to the Sufi doctrine. From that, this Salafist youth, whom Ben Badis had formed, realized the necessity of jihad for the sake of God.
@@user-pi6uq1ws4b1871 law was only offered to Jews
@@user-pi6uq1ws4bfum fact, the fln was mainly socialist
Glory to our martyrs and always freedom and peace to my beloved Algeria 🇩🇿
martyrs?
YES MARTYRS anyone that dies defending and fighting for his country for islam and for god is a martyr especially if you are fighting a brutal colonial occupation @egay86292
Funny kind of freedom and peace you think you’ve got.
@@egay86292
انت مغربي ، والمغرب محمية فرنسية منذ 1912 وإلى اليوم ، انتم لاتعرفون معنى الشهادة لانكم مازلتم محتلين من طرف إسبانيا منذ 600 سنة !!! لذلك لاتعرف منى الشهادة ولا معنى الشهيد لانك وغيرك من العبيد جبناء !!! والجبان مثلك ومثل بقية العبيد لايعرفون معنى الدفاع عن الوطن ، لان العائلة الهالكة بالمغرب علمتكم حب الاحتلال والمتاجرة ببناتكم واطفالكم في سوق السياحة الجنسية ومهرجانات الرقص والغناء !!! من الافضل لك ان تهتم بالمغربيات اللواتي تصدروهن بالآلاف إلى دول الخليج وإسبانيا وإسرائيل كخادمات في البيوت والفنادق وعاملات بمزارع الفرولة بإسبانيا التي تحتلكم من وراء البحر واشياء اخرى تعترف بها نساؤكم اللواتي صدرتموهن إلى خارج المغرب من اجل جلب لكم العملة الصعبة ولكن على حساب الشرف ههههههههه
اهتم باختك التي ارسلتها للخليج بدون محرم من اجل ان تعطيك بعض الدولارات هههههههه
@@agrantharrison472 🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭 this will follow just wait sangouli
It's kind of insane to me that the French people (not all but many of them nonetheless), after having suffered harshly under Nazi occupation, did not collectively think that maybe their colonial subjects went through a similar oppressive experience under the yoke of French imperialism. Such self-reflection could've led to a more peaceful process of decolinization that would have saved countless lives and money. Rules for thee, but not for me is a cliché that comes to mind when thinking of this brutal war from the French perspective.
Actually they did, but the poor French also suffered under their government, even the French had to revolt against their authoritarian regime (1967 manifestations and the fall of the forth republic I guess)
Algerian was was like the Hunger game movie, the French opened a contest and the prize was Algeria (sadly fractions from the Algerian part sold out and made peace while others were still fighting, this allowed them to exclude the others and attain power for themselves, the winners were Oujda group)
The french public realised there was french armed forces in Vietnam when the government announced their retreat. For the public opinion Algeria didn't realy existed before the colonisation as it was an "uncivilised" region. That was the collective thinking... If you lie and manipulate people well enough you can justify anything. Colonisation, salvery, holocaust... truth is for most people who lived during these times, it was no big deal if not good things. Like the invasion of the Middle East by the US for oil. In 100 years people will not understand how american people could let this happen ; so much suffering and death of innocent people even childrens. But it was for freedom and anti-terrorism right ?
@@thibaultmerlinlike hamas using human shields for "liberation"
@@erikzelada5578more like the IDF bombing civilian houses and schools because they are "terrorist breeding grounds"
Last year I watched the movie "The Battle of Algiers", which is about this war. Highly recommended.
That is a phenomenal film! Highly highly recommended
@VoltigeurFR It is an important film to understand the period, but like all films, books or stories, it must be placed in its context.
@VoltigeurFR the amusing side is that the film ignored Algerian films dating from the 60s and 70s (about the Algerian war, of course) that were just as interesting.
@VoltigeurFR the fact that it was made by a communist doesn't impact its quality. I disagree with Clint Eastwood's politics but respect many of his films. And it doesn't simply lionize Ali la Pointe, it shows how he committed terrorist attacks too.
its one of the best movies on the topic of guerrilla war and anti-colonial struggle. It shows the spiral of dehumanization that colonialism inevitably causes, and also how colonialized people often regain their sense of dignity through revolt even if they suffer in the process
The status of French Algeria was utterly hypocritical. On the one hand Algeria was officially not a colony but an integral part of France; yet on the ground it lived under a de facto apartheid regime, in which a minority of settler colonists confiscated all wealth and political power, and the majority of the population was not granted citizenship rights. Eventually the contradiction had to blow up, and blow up it did. The Pieds-Noirs were essentially the French Afrikaners.
The irony is that the situation could have changed significantly before the Second World War, in particular with the Blum-Violette project.
This. 👈
w o w another 1' who states the obvious you gotta thank god for google and wikipedia
No it did not live after an apartheid regime. A middle-class Berber man could become a magistrate or a pharmacist if he wanted to. The ones who received the most condescension were the Jewish community not the Muslims. If you look up Max Regis and Gabriele Lambert then you will understand where I'm coming from.
@@jacksonbando7952 Oh yes I'm right. Mouloud Feraoun was born into poverty into Kabylia and was able to become a teacher and writer due to the education system established by the French. That is social mobility.
The price of our freedom was a heavy one 💔 glory to our martyrs. Long live Algeria 🇩🇿
You can be very proud of your people.
My grandfather was one of the men who fought in this war, and he was arrested in the prison camps. He is now paralyzed as a result of torture in the prison camps. He told me many stories about what happened in those prison camps. The Algerians have never and will never forget what France did to their grandfathers, and a day will come when we will be held accountable.
great way of moving forward m8. i guess all of europe should feel the same about germany then. Let's all happily perpetuate the cycle of hate instead of breaking it !
And get nuked, want to talk about the genocides you did against some villages ? Want to talk about the very reasons why you got colonised ?
Im for the fact that everything that happened in that war get taught so the world know as much what France did as the freedom fighters, it would maybe enlight people like you. The dictatorship that came after was worth it I guess
"why u got colonised", no, this is justifying the colonisation (which brought torture to the Algerians, no matter how u try to twist it). As per the dictatorship coming next after colonisation, well, thats a diff chapter (which doesn't make colonisation better anyway).@@thepatriot1569
@@yafayafa9601 I m not making excuses, just saying you are not better than us. I agree colonisation is the worst thing we did but there is a difference between acknowledging that and accepting that some people deserve theyr revenge on the base they are better than us
@@thecitycook Germans asked for forgiveness from Europe, french didn’t. So don't pretend to be innocent, neo colonialists
Winning militarily and loosing politically will be a constant theme of the cold war
@VoltigeurFR similar to greece
@@home68049 it had won militarily, De Gaulle wanted to negotiate from a position of military strength
@VoltigeurFR Gotta admit, Dien Bien Phu was pretty humiliating. Straight up surrounded and captured. I feel like that one was karma though, being that a recently subjugated France by Germany gets liberated and IMMEDIATELY attempts to contain there former colonies.
@@home68049 Hi (nice to see you again), economically? clearly not, fun fact Algeria (like all the french colonial Empire) costed more than it brought to France in terms of currency, the wars of decolonization paradoxically played a major role in the economic development of France between 1955 and 1970, freeing up a very large sum of capital.
@@TheBucketSkill Dien Bien Phu wasn't a stupid idea, the whole plan was to attire Viet Minh into a decisive battle in order to destroy his military potential, fun fact it's mostly failed due to China and indirectly USA, the fact that Viet Minh have former ROC 105mm howitzer (given by USA to nationalist China and later used by Mao as a way to support Ho Chi Minh).
As an Algerian, I am honoured to have this being an actual video here. Algérie Algérienne !🇩🇿
Respect. An Algerian Algeria and a French France. All native people deserve self-determination.
@John Rock ever heard of tribal lands?
@John Rock I bet you look at yourself as a tolerant person.
11, 12, 13, Algérie Française ! 🇫🇷👣
@@louisixlefourbe8075 cope
❤ to Algeria 🇩🇿 from a Moroccan 🇲🇦
swamp of prosti.tution, dru.gs and slav.ery stay away from us
👙🇲🇦🐷🤮🤮
بلد الشهداء🇸🇦💕🇩🇿
My grandfather was drafted into this war, he spent most of it guarding the border with Tunisia. He was always really sad when talking about it, and always regretted the matter couldn't be settled peacefully.
Mine took part in Operation Dragoon. His unit even took part in the fight for Notre Dame de La Garde.
Wait, so he accepted the draft meaning he would have shot people, and regretted it not ending peacefully? This sounds contradictory. If he wanted it to be peaceful, he would have chosen to be jailed over participating in the war.
I can say simple word ISLAM, looks how shtty country is now Algeria people there hating their lives, most young dream is to immigrate to France, these rebels just sell illusion to their people, if they just agree to have fully citizenship, their country will be in better shape today .
@@F_imperialists i mean "regretting it not ending peacefully" doesn't mean he will not fight if it's needed, i mean almost every soldier would prefer not to go to War but will still go anyway not because they want to but either because they see this as their Duty for their country or because they don't wanna go into the trouble of getting labeled as a deserter and potentially ashame himself and his family, plus here it's not like he participate in massacre (otherwise yeah it would have Been contradictory) or anything he just guarded the border
@@Pantsugrenadiere Yeah the shame of not going to kill locals in the name of colonisers. Yeah, makes sense. Your grandfather was in the wrong for even going to colonise, it does5 matter if he wanted peace. Now at least in my eyes he's just like the Nazis. You know, many Nazis were just drafted and killed millions because that was "their duty". Imagine the shame of not committing holocaust in the name if your country. :)
I know that part of History very well, and I am really impressed at how you managed to summarise clearly such a complex story, in just half an hour. Excellent work!
Except they totally forgot to explain why 1.5 million "pied noirs" and hundreds of thousands of muslims and Jews had to abandon their homes or die...
@@droneanswers5476 They explained the role played by the Pied Noirs all along the war, making the result pretty obvious...
@@droneanswers5476 they deserved it for opposing the revolution... they deserve to go back to their country or leave algeria if they don't uphold it!
@@mikado6407 so algerian should also go out of France if we listen to people like you lol
@@merlinbreaud7379 sure so the pied noir population was guity as all as the jews and harkis ? Beautiful ! 🤣
"They had it coming" as justification for massacres but crying if comited by French lol !
"Do not fight the French in large numbers, rather you must harass them, chase after them, cut off their communications, take their equipment and means of transport, deceive them, ambush them and conduct surprise attacks to create confusion and astonishment in them"
- Abdul Qadir Al Jazairi
Spain agrees!
As did Ho Chi Minh, Le Duan and Vo Nguyen Giap.
@@Abdal-RahmanI 😘
@@Abdal-RahmanI oh yeah the peninsular war
@@Monatio79 Fun fact: Ho Chi Minh and Vo Nguyen Giap studied Abd-el-Krim's tactics.
Those tactics allowed them to score the victories of Route Coloniale 4 and Dien Bien Phu, in which the French suffered respectively 4,800 casualties and 10,000 Casualties.
800 bombs per month in early 1957! That is insane; even a tenth of that rate today would be considered extreme. And for it to happen not across a country but instead all in one city makes even more staggering. I can't imagine how anybody could live under that constant fear knowing that simply walking by a cafe could end your life horrifically.
That was the point. Make the french feel not at home and go back to their country.
@@F_imperialists Algeria was their country (at that time)
@@ryan-tc3rk They take it by force (Invasion) if they went there legally no one dare to say anything about them, there was always there Europeans/Jewish minorities in North Africa some still until today, playing big roles in the society .
@@ryan-tc3rk It never was. Read up about the history. It wasn't peaceful until 1954. It was constant war. It slowed down around WW1. But after 1945, the sentiment of fighting the colonisers came back.
Well they weren’t in their country. Of course Algerians had to defend themselves!
This is a fascinating independence struggle that few outside of France or Algeria understand or know of. I have read about this struggle shortly after my college years, but I have not thought about this war since then. Watching this video reminded me of the complexity or Cold War colonial politics.
All the Arab world knows the struggle of Algerine for independent now you ask in one in arab country about the Milon shahed they say Algeria directly
@@mmahmodi5155 I don't understand
@@Wkumar07 The country is sometimes nicknamed « Watan al Million Chahid » which translates to the country of the million martyrs. It also became known following its independence as « the Mecca of Revolutionaries » as even Fidel Castro and Che Guevara had stayed there multiple times during their fights, inspiring the other Arab nations’ revolutionaries.
Every country had their struggles your not special...
@@edvinasmeskauskas170 perhaps, but do all such struggles still echo down the corridors of history as do the struggles of the Cold War do today?
You mention the food situation but I don't think enough attention was paid to the famines suffered by Algerians denied access to the most productive land. The Jewish Algerian community was eligible for French citizenship, many emigrated to the mainland but this unsurprisingly exacerbated tension with the majority.
sheenies
No, Algeria's Jews had been made French citizens by the Crémieux Decree in 1830, as the French colonial regime viewed them as an usable, culturally adapted interface between themselves and the Arabo-Berber majority.
@@DanielLLevy Thanks for the correction they didn't even need to apply for citizenship, culturally they were just as Berber or Arab as their Muslim neighbours and belonged to a community that had been in North Africa for millennia but you're right about how they were viewed by colonial authorities.
@@mrmr446
Didn’t need to worry about them creating self exclusionary, self segregating sharia law enclaves that cause ALOT of problems
@@johnhenry4844 No one segregated in the area before the French your comment makes no sense.
I just want to say that as a French, the Algerian war of indépendance and the whole décolonisation process is almost not talked about, because it is very complex and sometimes brutal, for most of the French students, France after ww2 lost it’s colonial empire and Charles de Gaulle never left power from 1945 to 1958, so it is very cool to see someone talking about this forgotten war, and seing image of what happened
As someone not from Europe, i find it funny when WW2 movies show hitler as bad guy and Allies as good guys fighting for humanity.
Good guys from WW2 were killing Vietnamese and Algerians and Koreans and Indonesians after the war
nike la france vive dz
@@JohnGeometresMaximos there where mahometans in Indochina, Haiti and Madagascar too, right??
😒
Imperialist oppressors must be overthrow by revolutions.
@@pagodebregaeforro2803
This is your logic:
The fact that the Turks didn't commit a genocide against the Samoans, is proof that the Turks also did not commit a genocide against the Greek, the Armenian, and the Pontic Ottomans. 🤦🏻♂
@@JohnGeometresMaximos France had colonies outside the Muslim World so what is your excuse for that? Also by the 1950s there were no Muslim super powers, what Muslim "invasions" were you fighting against in the mid 1900s?
What "peace" were you establishing when the greatest disturbances in the Muslim World historically came from outsiders like the Crusades, Mongol invasions, British and French occupations, and Zionists. 3 out of 4 of those things I listed came from Europe,
Also you call people Mohametans knowing that's not the name of a practitioner of Islam. "Mohametan" implies that people worship the Prophet Muhammad just like the European Christians worship Jesus after mixing Christianity with their Roman pagan beliefs.
So how can we take your opinion seriously if you can't get the name right?
The french government seem to have forgotten how they suffered under the Germans.
Not really, but France's international prestige played a big part in convincing the authorities of the Fourth Republic to continue hostilities with the FLN.
@علي ياسر I have a little trouble understanding you, but if I understand you well, you ask me why the French committed such atrocities? why Europeans? why Colonization?
I could quite simply say that History is full of violence, of the uncertain desire to want to dominate and humiliate others, it is not necessarily the prerogative of the Nazis, of the French or of Europeans in general, but rather of the whole humanity.
Why did the Arabs set up and thrive on a slave trade on the East African coast for almost 10 millennia? Why do Shiites and Sunnis massacre each other? the list is very long.
@@juleslandry7585 Which was useless anyway, the FLN was growing in number to the point where they reached over 200,000 men ready to fight in 1962, the French had lost over 30,000 men killed for nothing, it was impossible to win.
@Mira Moche if you're brutal and efficient the UN will sanction you, there will be more people against the regime and your government will collapse, (you will, infact, lose)
then germany was violently crushed by the allies and is since then a b*ch country😂
Man as an Indian I'm shocked at the amount of blood the independence movements of other colonies had in that time.
Not really. Most British and French colonies in the 60s peacefully gained independence with little bloodshed against colonisers (relatively speaking ofcourse) in this period. Algeria was an exception because it was considered an integral part of France kinda like Kashmir with a Muslim majority population. Apart from South east Asia, it was mostly peaceful decolonisation. Except the Portuguese ofcourse (first ones in, last ones out 😂)
I feel like the violence as a result of the partition was very bloody. Apparently up to 2 million people perished during that period.
Didn’t millions die in communal violence during the Indian partition?
@John Rock it was considered at that time under their narrative. I never said I personally believe so.
@Clyde Speed East indies is a part of south east Asia. Read again
My Grandpa was one of many Liberator of Algeria, he collected classified information from the French, and give it to the resistance.
He faught for his people, for god and for freedom.
Rest in peace Messaud Abdrehman.
« Liberator » 😂. Your grandpa liberated nothing. The FLN got obliterated by the French army. It is Degaulle who betrayed the French of Algeria and decided to give Algeria to the FLN
@@leonidasthermopylae3378 the military result was a stalemate for both sides. I'd hardly class that as "obliteration"
@@r.a1301 it was not a stalemate. It is well documented that that the French army obliterated the ALN, the “ligne Maurice” prevented the ALN to cross the border while the battle of the casbah in Algiers was a total military victory from the French army. The French were the first to use helicopter in COIN operation. Paul Aussaresse developed the COIN technics in Algeria and even went on to train US special force. It is De Gaulle who betrayed the French and the French army by giving away algeria. This even led to a military putch by 5 French general because the army and the French from Algeria did not accept the decision of De Gaulle after having crushed the FLN and the ALN. The 1st REP from the French foreign legion was almost ready to jump over Paris. De Gaullle should have been put in front of a firing squad for treason.
@@leonidasthermopylae3378 The least butthurt frenchie
@@leonidasthermopylae3378 You literally failed against the Turks in their war of independence Gayreek and got thrown out into the sea, the Algerians took exemple and did the same to the French, cope.
during the Algerian war of independence, the F.L.N national liberation front was treated as a terrorist organization by France and the rest of the world
I love these types of videos that show how each country gained their independence
(Note I’m talking about countries that gained their independence during the Cold War)
I think you should've touched 1961 Paris massacre of Algerians. While 200-400 dead protesters seems like a small death toll, compared to 1 million people dead in the Algerian war of independence, it was one of the most notable massacres in France as it was perpetuated by the French police and commanded by Maurice Papon, the chief of the police who was a Vichy collaborator responsible for the deportation of thousands of Jews to death camps.
Yeah, it's a sadly forgotten aspect of Algerian War and highly controversial.
@علي ياسر and why did the Ottomans massacre the Egyptian Mamluks when they shared the same faith?
Congratulations, you discovered that History was controversial.
@علي ياسر Exactly the same for France and Germany, you answered your question yourself!
It's rather 40 or 50 but for pro-algerian observers it was 200 or more. It's like Johny Depp and Amber Heard who is the bad guy and the liar ?
exacly 1.5 million martyrs
This is one of the most comprehensive and detailed channels on CZcams. Keep it up!
My dad was born in 1947 in Algeria. His home village was spared from the fighting.
Mine died during the war, his village was destroyed by the French. About 60% of the Algerian population were displaced into camps, may I ask which village was it to be spared? It must be a Oasis in the deep south?
@@souadbenali5668 It’s to the southeast, in the mountains.
The question is : what is the name of the village ? It’s your dad’s birth place , you should know that or go check his birth certificate , it must be there .
I’d like to know what’s the name of that village that « was spared from the fighting « cause that would be a newsflash …
Thank you for this episode about Algeria's people struggle for independence.
My family revolted along side Amir Abdelkader when the French first came to Algeria but were unfortunately exiled, eventually ending up in Palestine. Many years later during the time period talked about in the video, my grandfather tells me people came to our family (now in Jordan after once again being exiled but by the Israelis this time around) to get recruits to go fight for Algerian independence. Interestingly enough, during the Second World War when our family was still in Palestine, they were considered French nationals even though they were exiled, so when Ottoman troops came to the city to draft men to fight they weren’t even allowed to enter their home. The neighbor’s sons would hide at our family’s house as to not be found by the Ottomans and drafted
Ottomans fought in ww1. By ww2 there was no Ottoman Empire anymore
Can I just say I absolutely love when you put the years on your video titles or thumbnails, it helps me alot.
This is a conflict I've been really interested in. I'm glad the team has covered this.
Superior editing in this episode! Love the motion graphics and camera movements.
If you’re into boardgames, Colonial Twilight is a fantastic two player game about this conflict. It’s pretty dense, but it’s deep/rewarding and a gateway to other games using the same system(COIN, or COunter INsurgency).
I'm proud and happy for the Algerians being able to obtain their independence for their country on their own terms. Its the only former French colony where sovereignty isn't nominal and the French don't dare to impose their will on.
de gaulle stabbed his own people in the back and to curry favor with the muslim world when he pulled out and let them have it. after the military had won the war by blunt force. he had a bad habit of doublecrossing his own countrymen. but the french still have a system to keep real control of much of africa. they are independent states in name only. francafrique its called. algeria has been a political , social and economic disaster area since the french left.
@@nomadnametab just be happy for the native people
@@nomadnametab You are correct. The CFA Franc for example is clearly a tool for the French of exercising their control of the area. The new ECOWAS currency is definitely one way to get some of that control back.
How do you figure the sovereignty of Vietnam is nominal and the French can impose their will? How about Quebec, louisiana, Dominica, Grenada, Yemen, and Syria? The French has no say in these places, their sovereignty is well established, along with many other of their former colonies. That statement has zero truth to it.
@@dillonhillier I think he is referring franceafrique.
it's a great honour for me and my family that many of the constantinian north leadership meetings were held in my great uncle's home, and that zighoud youcef himself was present in his house, may they all rest in peace.
My father is Algeria and was part of the military after the war, he is still has antagonism towards France and he, as a older man, still itches for a fight every once in while because of his families experience during the war.
c'est normal. pour beaucoup de Français qui avaient connus l'occupation c'était impossible de pardonner aux "boches".
I will never forgive France for what they did to my country .Plus is that adeptus mechanicus profile lol ??
@@jameseddine8627 yes, Allah loves his demands we find knowledge and technology. The OmniAllah
@@jameseddine8627 What's the point. There is no difference between you except the delusional thoughts you have.
How's that fight going, now that your people have a foothold in France? One 17 year old boy was all you needed, it seems.
The "pieds noirs" were not only French, many were from Spain or Malta. During the coloration of Algeria, the French government had trouble persuading French Nationals to move to Algeria, so it opened for people from abroad. My grand father was born in the Kabylian part and lived after his studies in Paris, where he tried to persuade the French to drop the "Indigenous Law" that separated French Colons from Algerian Born locals, which was a complete apartheid, all this going sour in 1945 with the Setif events. Ten years later the war to kick the French out started .... people have to understand that the colons were ruthless and violent towards the locals. The war was cruel and Violent since the French also developed the skills for torture .... that were adopted by the US state department after 9/11 ... by George Bush and his idiots.
Yawn
Extra Yawn, the reason the US lost in Afghanistan was due to weak leadership, its inability to be as ruthless as the terrorist with the terrorist, and geography. Those assholes are cutting heads off and human rights groups are worried about their living conditions. You can't make this up.... The US military followed their laws, morals, and values and yet people like you love push anti US sentiment. The people taken were for the most part terrorist or sympathizers. The terrorist killed more civilians than the US did terrorist. All I will say is that people like you have no idea what you are talking about. You watch too much TV, listen to gossip, and propaganda. The US poured trillions in rebuilding, training, and democracy (which was a mistake). They should have just left after killing Osama. Fact is that the world ends up getting worse because people like you spread misinformation while ignorant.
@@rickjames18 Lol the cope, they definitely did follow the rules of wars by droning weddings and babies and torturing innocent people to death. What can you expect from a country founded on genocide and slavery.
The reason the US leaved Afghan is that they never intended to stay or 'win'. It was a false flag from day 1
@@rickjames18 So the point of your yawn is the fact that it was all useless, as predicted. The US could not and was not willing to change anything but inflict domination on a rural society in a completely asymmetrical warfare, and have US teenager masturbating over videos of apache choppers killing resisting farmers. Yes, nothing but that. So yawn, as expected. Read the war of the flea by Robert Taber, 60 years ago the man knew all attempts to invade any country meant hurting people for nothing .... as any domination of a country to the next can only be achieved by killing 100% of its original inhabitants. There was never any idea of bringing civilization to any of these countries because the US is not a civilization, its just a country with an industrial system so powerful , it can inflict a high rate of violence on its own population without a second of doubt : Fentanyl and Guns, great stuff.
But, you´re missing some incidents, like the bombing of Sakiet Sidi Youssef in Le Kef where I was born, France bombed the weekly souk and local school, they even bombed the local bureau of the red cross. It was a decisive incident, Dag Hamerschold himself went to the village and condemned the crime.
In independent Tunisia?
@@stefanodadamo6809 exactly, on the 8th of february 1958
These map graphics are seriously impressive, you guys are awesome!
Didn't the French Foreign Legion of this period contain a lot of former Waffen-SS?
The "hearts and minds" strategy was never on the table.
What does that have to do with anything?
@VoltigeurFR wasn't responding to you bruv
Which is ironic considering they were doing now the exact same in the name of France to the algerians that they had done to the french in the name of nazi germany before.
The french militaries actions during this war basically read like a normal "anti partisan warfare" operation from nazi germany occupied countries done by the germans.
@@noobster4779 Yeah maybe the rebels shouldn't have depopulated mining towns and smash infants against rocks.
Apparently that's a misconception. The Legion didn't allow Waffen-SS members to join and their SS tattoos made it very easy to spot them and reject them. However, a lot of former Wehrmacht soldiers were in the Legion and we know the Wehrmacht wasn't exactly clean either.
Both of my grandparents joined the revolution as soldiers in the FLN ... i still remembering their stories about THE war & their follows who died dreaming about the day they will be free ... i still remembering the stories of my grandfather how he get caught during the battle & the torture he lived through during the prison until he got free after independence.... we will not forget the crimes & we will tell the stories to our children too ... until the day France demeaned apology to the authorities that happened during the war
Allah yarham elchohada🇩🇿
It was the War!!! FLN also made some crimes against europeans settled in Algeria
@@vicenteastrai5752 their crimes far worse every action has opposite one ... France ruled by terror for 132 year millions of life lost it's a shame to compare some FLN crimes to the ones done by the French empire & France republic
@@hassansoltani3069 yes it's true!!! Colonialism is a crime against humanity. But i think that Algeria could give Algerian nationality to the europeans settled in Algeria insted of making crimes against europeans population after the independance like in Oran
@@vicenteastrai5752 people who stayed here has their algerian id card unlike cowards who helped the corrupted colonialism
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your Vids, all of them, are what i've been dreaming of in keen moments of 'what could history teaching be' ... thx so much for your work and effort!
A consistently informative series!
Never been so proud of algeria our people fought the bloodiest battle and never surrendered and we will never surrender to any country
Excellent summary and context. For those interested in this history, Frantz Fanon’s classic “The Wretched of the Earth” is a must.
Absolutely agree
great video
Been waiting for this for a long time
and some people still believe that france is a liberal free country that supports human rights
Algeria's experience under French colonialism and oppression and apartheid led it to post independence positioning itself as a beacon of assistance and solidarity to oppressed people all over the world. Thousands of activists, rebels, freedom fighters etc from all parts of the globe were given asylum, refuge, training, education, military and guerilla training in Algeria or in neighboring countries with Algerian participation and funding, eg Black Panthers and Native Americans from the US, indigenous peoples from Latin America and Asia and the Pacific, lrish, ANC and other groups from South Africa, Palestinians etc. Many organizations eg the Panthers had an office in Algeria.
Algeria played crucial roles in the pan African movement and in the movement for African unity.
Blessings and love to Algeria from 🇹🇹
Appreciate your work and the TV from my childhood there. Most comforting 🇨🇦
Very good video thank you for making it.
I so proud to be an Algerian
You really can! ❤
Excellent video about a part of 20th century that is often forgotten!
Love to Algeria from Pakistan
Love the Pakistani people always positive
Freedom or death this was the slogan of our ancestors day after day we are proud of our revolution We lived through injustice and tyranny by gaining freedom we do not know freedom as a meaning but we know it as a meaning and a feeling 🇩🇿✌❤
كان شعار المجاهدين :النصر أو الإستشهاد و ليس الحرية أو الموت
To be clear : the French military's "counter-insurgency tactics" were experimented in Indochina, but they learned them from eager german "exchange students" during the early 40's (remember most of the French cadres were WWIi veterans at the time).
They would later teach those tactics to the US and Latin America dictatorships. And none of them cared about its major flaw : it doesn't fucking work, in the long run...
to tell the truth no, most counter-insurgency theories were developed by French officers in Indochina (where it must be said that the High Command was really flexible as to the initiatives of the officers on the ground).
There is very little or even no direct exchange (perhaps indirect, it would require more research) between Germans and French on this subject.
@@juleslandry7585 i'm sorry, i was sarcastic. The exchange was quite direct, as they developed the techniques the Gestapo and SD directly applied on their asses during the occupation 😉
@@juleslandry7585 there's a lot of members of the foreign legion that are German, might explain why
@@comradekenobi6908 Not only German, but former SS.
@@scratchy996 yeah
Great explanation of a complex period of French history. You answered a lot of questions I'd had, thanks.
Very interesting explanation. Thank you.
I love your channel. Great job!
My takeaway is the French had multiple opportunities to make this a LOT better and just set every opportunity on fire.
France was paranoid and Britain was very, very smart
My grandma's Dad and her brother was killed during the war i remember her telling me stories of how the french military apprehended them and took them from their home 😢 may they RIP ❤.
That was really good. Thanks
Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰 our poets have poems taught us about Algeria 🇵🇰🇩🇿 in 1960 poem name is i think " muslims of Algiers" in English
A friend of mine lost his parents to this war
Most of my family lost friends or family to this war (Algerian side btw) my aunt told me when she was 9, she saw a french solider execute a shepherd in the field because he was grazing too close to a pied noir. She told me how she still remembers the blood and gargles of the shepherd before he died.
No Algerian family was spared, my father was the only one who survived the brutal french bombings and kidnappings from his side of the family.
My grandfather Allah yerahmoy was tortured by the French at the age of 9...
My paternal grandfather was t@rtürëd by the French at the age of 9...
Fun Fact: PLO was largely based on the FLN in beginning, Given how similar both scenarios are.
Great video.Good work👍🙌
this was a great episode 👍
Thank you for making this video I'm Algerian myself and i gotta say that i learned some new things about our war of independence. Although FLN won the war , their decent honest members who wanted to build a free democratic republic county were either assassinated , sent to exile or disappeared after the war . Now Algeria is still run by the FLN depleting Algerian resources into these people's pocket using the french government as a backup to their corruption in exchange for oil . But at the same time order and freedom is somewhat achieved it's better than a ruined nation like we're seeing in other arab countries or under a colonial government.
my great uncle was one of those men, he was the first minister of finance. in the end he had to leave the country and died in Switzerland
If only Ferhat Abbas had been chosen to lead Algeria it would have been better
@@dude7803 Your great uncle is Ahmed Francis ?
yep, my grandpa wanted nothing to do with politics after the war ended, he didn't take any benefits(except the ancient fighters pension when he got old with health problems), he couldve easily gotten a block appartement in downtown Algiers but refused, he said he did it for his country not for himself.
@@josephmccarthy7331 ferhat abbas the one who wanted une Algerie française !??
An Algerian was Here 🇩🇿,God Bless The 1.5 Million Hero's.
Allah yarham al shouhada
@@botbeamer ameen
They were 200K not 1.5 million.
@@Moor0077 give me a source that saying it was 200k, i dont believe you, i even know you are moroccan, but iam not into politics, you can try to make me hate your country,while i have closer moroccan families, that why i dont choose politics, i consider Morocco as my second country even if i dont have moroccan blood, i defend morocco as i do the same to Algeria, 🇲🇦🇩🇿
@@CR7_2006Editz I am trying to start a fight here. Here is my question. Who was the first person who said the 1.5 million deaths?
One of your best videos.
Glory to our martyrs 🇩🇿❤
My Grandfather is called Abbad Bouziane and he was a martyr in this war.
Great Video as ussual!
Are you going to cover the Portuguese Colonial War of 1961.1974(5)?
I enjoy all your videos. I did my thesis on Algeria and you get everything right here. Kudos! D.A., J.D., NYC
Wow I got here early! Love the content
thank you, glad you are enjoying it!
Both of my grandfathers fought in WW2 and both of them fought in algerian liberation war . I lost a grandfather and uncle during that war and m so proud now to be a descendent of such heros . Long live algeria and long live any movement that fights for freedome ❤
The animations are great, but the sound effects are a bit too loud. Just turning them a bit down would make them less distracting
Estupendo documental...enhorabuena
Please read "A Savage War of Peace" by Alistair Horne for a deeper dive. One of the best books I've read. I'm not a fan of fiction in general, but for some good fiction about this conflict, I'd recommend "The Centurions" by Larteguy or "The Day of the Jackal" by Forsyth.
This is the best book I have ever read.
In the leadup to The invasion of Iraq in 2003, someone gave Dick Cheney "A Savage War of Peace." It was meant as an education and a warning.
"The day of the jackal" is the bestest of bests.
@@sudiptabhattacharjee2052 I got the movie also.
@@mjstbnsn6294 The novel is better than the movie. You can get a complete picture of French police,intelligence and administration service of that time by this epic novel.
Surprised you didn't mention the assassination attempt of DeGaulle by the OAS. Or a flash about Camus.
It's a pity Larteguy didn't continue his contemporaneous novels about the French paras in Algeria so he could cover the events after DeGaulle came to power. I liked his first two novels, "The Centurions" and "The Praetorians." Also if any are interested A Savage War if Peace is a great history of this war.
There were many information to cover, so David could not cover all of them. Another information not covered was the formation of the far-right party National Front. Many of the original party members were also part of OAS who were seething at France allowing Algerian Independence.
i remember reading about how De Gaulle called Kennedy telling him that his CIA is trying to Overthrow him & Kennedy basically told him that he has no idea, cus he doesn't control what the CIA does
the french paras in Algiers were the legions 1st para regiment who were disbanded after this attempt.
And the fan incedint
@@user-bw1ww6ny9o The FLN targeted civilians and changed the war. If you can't handle reprisals against civilians, don't start them in the first place.
شكرا جزيلا لك على هذا المجهود
الكبير
للاسف لم ينقل الحقيقة كاملة وكان منحاز لفرنسا، واخفى الرواية الصحيحة، حيث في مجازر الثامن ماي قال مات بعض المتضاهرين ،لكن في الواقع مات اكثر من45الف شهيد ،هؤلاء الاوربيين يدافعون ويتسترون عن بعضهم البعض ،
There are some great visuals and animations in this.
My grandfather was on the wanted list he fled to morocco by train in the horses and sheeps wagon he desguised himself as an employe and in the interance there was a police officer that knew him personally he didn't recognize him he was very lucky
Nice doc pal, but, the fight started in 1832 and never stoped until 1962👍👍long life to Algeria and peace upon our martyrs💪💪🇩🇿
Thanks
At last, I waited for that one for a very long time.
I knew Algeria's breakaway was a tense and bloody affair, but I didn't realize how much the war destabilized France. Thank you for another very informative video.
God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)
Love from Vietnam! 🇻🇳❤🇩🇿
Love from Algeria ..Huchi Menh was a friend to my country❤
accidentally clicked on this video and wound up thoroughly enjoying it and learning a lot of new stuff
What you said on may 1945 "The death of some protestors" is actually 45 thousand protestors dead
Appreciating this channel. My Cold War education was very limited and I'm trying to fill those gaps, as these events arent just the foundations of our times... They are the houses that are being lifted, lead mitigated, earthquake retrofitted. The house is intensely altered but not new.
this has nothing to do with cold war, this was jihad for sake of Allah
Great video. Do a video on Britain war in Vietnam (1945-1946) also called operation masterdom
To me it sounds like initially French Algeria was just like apartheid era South Africa then France started to treat it the same way the British treated Ireland
It's notable too the French economical, cultural and even political leverage that persisted and maybe accentuated after the independence. Don't know if it was the same in Ireland...
@@MrMEST In 1938 Eamon De Valera got Neville Chamberlain to give up the Treaty ports. This meant the Irish State could stay out of the war. Churchill could not invade and take them back again because he needed American help.
@@MrMEST While that may be true in some parts of Africa, it definitely wasn't in Algeria.
The independence of Morocco an Tunesia happened in 1956, after the Algerian War of Independence had allready begun.
Yup, it was partly to focus solely on Algeria and not waste resources all over North Africa.
@علي ياسر vietnam isnt in north africa, what he said is true and backed by the french themselves, they wanted to keep algeria more then the rest
@علي ياسر I don’t know but they didn’t treat us like a colony as said in the video, maybe because our land is beautiful or maybe it’s because of resources I’m not sure
My grandfather ( a 12 year old boy) was being routinely interrogated and tortured using electrical charges, as he was supposed to disclose informations about his brothers ( family's surname : merad ), whom at that time were in charge of transporting weapons from tunisia, my grandfather who recently passed away continued to live a very difficult life, his relatives would say that he was never the same after those sessions. Imagine torturing a 12 year old wtf