Algerian War of Independence 1954-1962

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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@hichemahmedsista6445 Жыл бұрын

Proud that my grandfather died fighting for his country . Long live Algeria 🇩🇿

@tugrulgul570 Жыл бұрын

Rest in peace from Turkey

@SOULAANI_ 6 ай бұрын

Based grand father. Rip bro!

@User-xh5zu 6 ай бұрын

اللهم آته جنة الفردوس

@quitlying1948 6 ай бұрын

شهيد.

@derubk859 5 ай бұрын

Be proud of that, now some algerian are proud that their grandpa fought for France to get french citizenship. Tahia El Djazair

@abdelaziznoshy5658 Жыл бұрын

اكبر تحيه لأبطال وشهداء الجزائر 🇩🇿❤🇪🇬

@gakkok3030 5 ай бұрын

اخوتنا المصريين اكثر من ساعدنا شكرا شكرا صح ان هذا ادى الى الهجوم الثلاثي على مصر وقتل شهداء منكم فشكرا💗💗

@user-sc1cc6py1o Жыл бұрын

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.

@capricornegalaxy5393 10 ай бұрын

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.

@smal750 7 ай бұрын

source

@ahmedrezzig1101 7 ай бұрын

@@smal750en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9tif_and_Guelma_massacre You can find all the information about it here (including sources)

@alsa3ka166 6 ай бұрын

@@smal750bro just google how many algerian died in 8 mays 1945 Its the first text that you will see

@peaches5878 6 ай бұрын

@@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

@ramzimohamed3146 2 жыл бұрын

38 members of my family died in this war. our elders talked about how cruel it was and im so proud of them .

@comradekenobi6908 2 жыл бұрын

That's a lot

@ramzimohamed3146 2 жыл бұрын

@@comradekenobi6908 some of them died in battle others been executed and few never been found .

@comradekenobi6908 2 жыл бұрын

@@ramzimohamed3146 God give them a good afterlife

@ramzimohamed3146 2 жыл бұрын

@@comradekenobi6908 i wish either. thanks

@ramzimohamed3146 2 жыл бұрын

@Mike J i never would but alot of us do. thats a fact and ashame of us . I even against immigration

@theawesomeman9821 2 жыл бұрын

True fact! The Vietnamese are the Algerians biggest cheerleaders!

@weprintservice487 2 жыл бұрын

and vice versa , the Vietnamese struggle is taught enthusiastically in algrian schools and hailed as the role model of their own revolution

@comradekenobi6908 2 жыл бұрын

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend, even if I never met the guy"

@itsblitz4437 2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the Afghans.

@laker_fanatic3985 8 күн бұрын

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

@alexv3357 2 жыл бұрын

"The war even collapsed an entire French Republic." Not exactly as high bar as one might expect

@joeblow9657 2 жыл бұрын

Some Frenchman on a Wednesday: smoke a cigarette 5 minutes later: political turmoil achieved.

@1998topornik 2 жыл бұрын

Indeed

@kyleplatter8954 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@DarkBloa 2 жыл бұрын

@@joeblow9657 correction, it was a Saturday 😁

@MrPink1750 2 жыл бұрын

*French empire, 12 African states gained their independence because of the Algerian independence revolution - And ended the 4th Republic.

@manelbarat6566 6 ай бұрын

Glory to our martyrs and always freedom and peace to my beloved Algeria 🇩🇿

@egay86292 4 күн бұрын

martyrs?

@cheriefsadeksadek2108 3 күн бұрын

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

@dzdz7818 Жыл бұрын

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 ✌️🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇩🇿🇩🇿🇵🇸

@grahamt5924 Жыл бұрын

It's an illusion. The whole thing is pointless. You are fighting for apartheid

@bubu345 6 ай бұрын

Brace yourself for another ass whole nation trying to hold on to their illegal action

@user-pi6uq1ws4b 6 ай бұрын

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.

@nabilrise1551 6 ай бұрын

@@user-pi6uq1ws4b1871 law was only offered to Jews

@Procrastinators 3 ай бұрын

@@user-pi6uq1ws4bfum fact, the fln was mainly socialist

@helloworld0609 2 жыл бұрын

Last year I watched the movie "The Battle of Algiers", which is about this war. Highly recommended.

@TheColdWarTV 2 жыл бұрын

That is a phenomenal film! Highly highly recommended

@juleslandry7585 2 жыл бұрын

@VoltigeurFR It is an important film to understand the period, but like all films, books or stories, it must be placed in its context.

@juleslandry7585 2 жыл бұрын

@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.

@sankarchaya 2 жыл бұрын

@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.

@sankarchaya 2 жыл бұрын

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

@paulfrank9047 Жыл бұрын

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.

@xx3768 Жыл бұрын

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)

@xx3768 Жыл бұрын

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)

@thibaultmerlin Жыл бұрын

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 ?

@erikzelada5578 10 ай бұрын

@@thibaultmerlinlike hamas using human shields for "liberation"

@Z130U 9 ай бұрын

@@erikzelada5578more like the IDF bombing civilian houses and schools because they are "terrorist breeding grounds"

@user-xt9em2bi6z 5 ай бұрын

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.

@thecitycook 5 ай бұрын

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 !

@thepatriot1569 5 ай бұрын

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

@yafayafa9601 5 ай бұрын

"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

@thepatriot1569 5 ай бұрын

@@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

@Anonymous-pw3se 4 ай бұрын

@@thecitycook Germans asked for forgiveness from Europe, french didn’t. So don't pretend to be innocent, neo colonialists

@madizo9056 2 жыл бұрын

As an Algerian, I am honoured to have this being an actual video here. Algérie Algérienne !🇩🇿

@flawlessbinary7449 2 жыл бұрын

Respect. An Algerian Algeria and a French France. All native people deserve self-determination.

@shanebrown2009 2 жыл бұрын

@John Rock ever heard of tribal lands?

@shanebrown2009 2 жыл бұрын

@John Rock I bet you look at yourself as a tolerant person.

@louisixlefourbe8075 2 жыл бұрын

11, 12, 13, Algérie Française ! 🇫🇷👣

@madizo9056 2 жыл бұрын

@@louisixlefourbe8075 cope

@shatterquartz 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@juleslandry7585 2 жыл бұрын

The irony is that the situation could have changed significantly before the Second World War, in particular with the Blum-Violette project.

@stefanodadamo6809 2 жыл бұрын

This. 👈

@sonnysantana5454 9 ай бұрын

w o w another 1' who states the obvious you gotta thank god for google and wikipedia

@the19thcentury81 9 ай бұрын

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.

@the19thcentury81 8 ай бұрын

@@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.

@technetium9653 2 жыл бұрын

Winning militarily and loosing politically will be a constant theme of the cold war

@kamakiller1145 2 жыл бұрын

@VoltigeurFR similar to greece

@sirfrancis6058 2 жыл бұрын

@@home68049 it had won militarily, De Gaulle wanted to negotiate from a position of military strength

@TheBucketSkill 2 жыл бұрын

@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.

@juleslandry7585 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@juleslandry7585 2 жыл бұрын

@@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).

@orpheonkatakrosmortarchoft4332 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@adamcheklat7387 2 жыл бұрын

Mine took part in Operation Dragoon. His unit even took part in the fight for Notre Dame de La Garde.

@F_imperialists 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@user-ir2fu4cx6p 2 жыл бұрын

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 .

@Pantsugrenadiere 2 жыл бұрын

@@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

@F_imperialists 2 жыл бұрын

@@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. :)

@hibahiba7536 6 ай бұрын

The price of our freedom was a heavy one 💔 glory to our martyrs. Long live Algeria 🇩🇿

@tucia8783 4 ай бұрын

You can be very proud of your people.

@igorzkoppt 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@droneanswers5476 2 жыл бұрын

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...

@merlinbreaud7379 2 жыл бұрын

@@droneanswers5476 They explained the role played by the Pied Noirs all along the war, making the result pretty obvious...

@mikado6407 2 жыл бұрын

@@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!

@droneanswers5476 2 жыл бұрын

@@mikado6407 so algerian should also go out of France if we listen to people like you lol

@droneanswers5476 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 !

@TheSeeker-B 5 ай бұрын

❤ to Algeria 🇩🇿 from a Moroccan 🇲🇦

@berberechaouilamouchi5677 4 ай бұрын

swamp of prosti.tution, dru.gs and slav.ery stay away from us 👙🇲🇦🐷🤮🤮

@kazakhdoge1822 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@juleslandry7585 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's a sadly forgotten aspect of Algerian War and highly controversial.

@juleslandry7585 2 жыл бұрын

@علي ياسر and why did the Ottomans massacre the Egyptian Mamluks when they shared the same faith? Congratulations, you discovered that History was controversial.

@juleslandry7585 2 жыл бұрын

@علي ياسر Exactly the same for France and Germany, you answered your question yourself!

@fredericleroux8493 2 жыл бұрын

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 ?

@yahougamer6287 2 жыл бұрын

exacly 1.5 million martyrs

@jona.scholt4362 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@F_imperialists 2 жыл бұрын

That was the point. Make the french feel not at home and go back to their country.

@ryan-tc3rk 2 жыл бұрын

@@F_imperialists Algeria was their country (at that time)

@user-ir2fu4cx6p 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 .

@F_imperialists 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@elinawaterson 2 жыл бұрын

Well they weren’t in their country. Of course Algerians had to defend themselves!

@almarifaacadimi 2 жыл бұрын

As an Algerian, it is great to watch this wonderful channel that broadcasts the events of the Algerian revolution. It is also necessary to remember that things have fortunately changed a lot and all respect and appreciation to the French people .

@juleslandry7585 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, that's nice to hear that, vive la France et vive l'Algérie.

@azizcha2316 2 жыл бұрын

You just Talking about your self we will never forget what French do with our people and our race they will pay in the perfect time French are our enemy for ever

@sofianesididriss1290 2 жыл бұрын

@@azizcha2316 eghle9 tramik hmed

@user-dr7ru8pm3d 2 жыл бұрын

we will never forgat what france did in algeria and still do and one day they will pay back ,,, We have No respect for them or the traitors !

@user-dr7ru8pm3d 2 жыл бұрын

@@sofianesididriss1290 harki ?

@mrmr446 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@joeblow9657 2 жыл бұрын

sheenies

@DanielLLevy 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@mrmr446 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@johnhenry4844 2 жыл бұрын

@@mrmr446 Didn’t need to worry about them creating self exclusionary, self segregating sharia law enclaves that cause ALOT of problems

@mrmr446 2 жыл бұрын

@@johnhenry4844 No one segregated in the area before the French your comment makes no sense.

@brianforry5524 Жыл бұрын

This is one of the most comprehensive and detailed channels on KZfaq. Keep it up!

@Wkumar07 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@mmahmodi5155 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Wkumar07 2 жыл бұрын

@@mmahmodi5155 I don't understand

@Dazzlefisher 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@edvinasmeskauskas170 Жыл бұрын

Every country had their struggles your not special...

@Wkumar07 Жыл бұрын

@@edvinasmeskauskas170 perhaps, but do all such struggles still echo down the corridors of history as do the struggles of the Cold War do today?

@Colk13 2 жыл бұрын

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

@amritraj41 2 жыл бұрын

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

@user-bz2ou7tw5e 2 жыл бұрын

nike la france vive dz

@pagodebregaeforro2803 Жыл бұрын

@@JohnGeometresMaximos there where mahometans in Indochina, Haiti and Madagascar too, right?? 😒 Imperialist oppressors must be overthrow by revolutions.

@JohnGeometresMaximos Жыл бұрын

@@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. 🤦🏻‍♂

@Harun-cd6jz Жыл бұрын

@@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?

@DarkshadowXD63 2 жыл бұрын

This is a conflict I've been really interested in. I'm glad the team has covered this.

@nachgebaut4176 Жыл бұрын

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.

@leonidasthermopylae3378 Жыл бұрын

« 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

@r.a1301 Жыл бұрын

@@leonidasthermopylae3378 the military result was a stalemate for both sides. I'd hardly class that as "obliteration"

@leonidasthermopylae3378 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@AmirSatt Жыл бұрын

@@leonidasthermopylae3378 The least butthurt frenchie

@Holybatman3603 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@robertortiz-wilson1588 Жыл бұрын

Can I just say I absolutely love when you put the years on your video titles or thumbnails, it helps me alot.

@HistoryOfRevolutions 2 жыл бұрын

"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

@Abdal-RahmanI 2 жыл бұрын

Spain agrees!

@Monatio79 2 жыл бұрын

As did Ho Chi Minh, Le Duan and Vo Nguyen Giap.

@milominderbinder6209 2 жыл бұрын

@@Abdal-RahmanI 😘

@milotura6828 Жыл бұрын

@@Abdal-RahmanI oh yeah the peninsular war

@Holybatman3603 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@dominik.g.7938 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this episode about Algeria's people struggle for independence.

@rafaelchacon1782 2 жыл бұрын

Superior editing in this episode! Love the motion graphics and camera movements.

@piro5916 2 жыл бұрын

These map graphics are seriously impressive, you guys are awesome!

@zebraz3839 2 жыл бұрын

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)

@oussama1811 Жыл бұрын

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.

@sebbru8369 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@artrobinson9310 2 жыл бұрын

A consistently informative series!

@billw1266 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent summary and context. For those interested in this history, Frantz Fanon’s classic “The Wretched of the Earth” is a must.

@Saad-ul6py 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely agree

@bhutochakrabarti4173 2 жыл бұрын

Man as an Indian I'm shocked at the amount of blood the independence movements of other colonies had in that time.

@Shre_k__ 2 жыл бұрын

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 😂)

@shayk4791 2 жыл бұрын

I feel like the violence as a result of the partition was very bloody. Apparently up to 2 million people perished during that period.

@zeitgeistx5239 2 жыл бұрын

Didn’t millions die in communal violence during the Indian partition?

@Shre_k__ 2 жыл бұрын

@John Rock it was considered at that time under their narrative. I never said I personally believe so.

@Shre_k__ 2 жыл бұрын

@Clyde Speed East indies is a part of south east Asia. Read again

@bwdavis4573 Жыл бұрын

Appreciate your work and the TV from my childhood there. Most comforting 🇨🇦

@elemperadordemexico 2 жыл бұрын

Been waiting for this for a long time

@wyattm1583 2 жыл бұрын

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).

@curtisthomas2670 6 ай бұрын

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 🇹🇹

@alaricboyle-poirier6931 2 жыл бұрын

Very good video thank you for making it.

@jakemyhill4985 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video about a part of 20th century that is often forgotten!

@ramijihadarab6175 Жыл бұрын

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

@lampegutt123 8 ай бұрын

Ottomans fought in ww1. By ww2 there was no Ottoman Empire anymore

@EUROSPORTS4TECH 5 ай бұрын

Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰 our poets have poems taught us about Algeria 🇵🇰🇩🇿 in 1960 poem name is i think " muslims of Algiers" in English

@shaider1982 2 жыл бұрын

The french government seem to have forgotten how they suffered under the Germans.

@juleslandry7585 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@juleslandry7585 2 жыл бұрын

@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.

@Holybatman3603 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@rexacion 11 ай бұрын

@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)

@smal750 7 ай бұрын

then germany was violently crushed by the allies and is since then a b*ch country😂

@acosorimaxconto5610 2 жыл бұрын

Great explanation of a complex period of French history. You answered a lot of questions I'd had, thanks.

@christianweibrecht6555 2 жыл бұрын

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

@MrMEST 2 жыл бұрын

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...

@HandleGF 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@alioshax7797 2 ай бұрын

@@MrMEST While that may be true in some parts of Africa, it definitely wasn't in Algeria.

@milotura6828 Жыл бұрын

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.

@vodkaboy Жыл бұрын

c'est normal. pour beaucoup de Français qui avaient connus l'occupation c'était impossible de pardonner aux "boches".

@jameseddine8627 Жыл бұрын

I will never forgive France for what they did to my country .Plus is that adeptus mechanicus profile lol ??

@milotura6828 Жыл бұрын

@@jameseddine8627 yes, Allah loves his demands we find knowledge and technology. The OmniAllah

@grahamt5924 Жыл бұрын

@@jameseddine8627 What's the point. There is no difference between you except the delusional thoughts you have.

@crashandersen602 10 ай бұрын

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.

@NDAGR- 2 жыл бұрын

That was really good. Thanks

@marcostejeda5910 Жыл бұрын

I love your channel. Great job!

@nacerhi5486 Жыл бұрын

Never been so proud of algeria our people fought the bloodiest battle and never surrendered and we will never surrender to any country

@adamcheklat7387 2 жыл бұрын

My dad was born in 1947 in Algeria. His home village was spared from the fighting.

@souadbenali5668 2 жыл бұрын

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?

@adamcheklat7387 Жыл бұрын

@@souadbenali5668 It’s to the southeast, in the mountains.

@theunique1966 4 ай бұрын

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 …

@davidanderson9664 2 жыл бұрын

I enjoy all your videos. I did my thesis on Algeria and you get everything right here. Kudos! D.A., J.D., NYC

@akirubamiru6700 2 жыл бұрын

At last, I waited for that one for a very long time.

@Levi_o_Lusitano 2 жыл бұрын

Great Video as ussual! Are you going to cover the Portuguese Colonial War of 1961.1974(5)?

@Aristote16 Жыл бұрын

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 🇩🇿✌❤

@abdoudz8486 5 ай бұрын

كان شعار المجاهدين :النصر أو الإستشهاد و ليس الحرية أو الموت

@guerrillaradio1 2 жыл бұрын

One of your best videos.

@modtwentyeight Жыл бұрын

Very interesting explanation. Thank you.

@hamrite 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@kwd3109 2 жыл бұрын

Yawn

@rickjames18 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@tobuncs5261 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Cjephunneh 2 жыл бұрын

The reason the US leaved Afghan is that they never intended to stay or 'win'. It was a false flag from day 1

@hamrite 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@otman1186 2 жыл бұрын

Love to Algeria from Pakistan

@curiousmind_ 2 жыл бұрын

Love the Pakistani people always positive

@THENOAHMOU123 2 жыл бұрын

great video

@tomalexander4327 2 жыл бұрын

There are some great visuals and animations in this.

@hassansoltani3069 2 жыл бұрын

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🇩🇿

@vicenteastrai5752 2 жыл бұрын

It was the War!!! FLN also made some crimes against europeans settled in Algeria

@hassansoltani3069 2 жыл бұрын

@@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

@vicenteastrai5752 2 жыл бұрын

@@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

@abdouu5300 Жыл бұрын

@@vicenteastrai5752 people who stayed here has their algerian id card unlike cowards who helped the corrupted colonialism

@AhmedOmar-ul6wc 6 ай бұрын

good@@vicenteastrai5752

@ShubhamMishrabro 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. Do a video on Britain war in Vietnam (1945-1946) also called operation masterdom

@sebastiangrandis545 2 жыл бұрын

love the bell button part at the end!! secrete highlight of the videos :D

@nccccccccccccc Жыл бұрын

Great video.Good work👍🙌

@benkamelmayssem5780 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@stefanodadamo6809 2 жыл бұрын

In independent Tunisia?

@benkamelmayssem5780 2 жыл бұрын

@@stefanodadamo6809 exactly, on the 8th of february 1958

@FrankensteinDZWOT Жыл бұрын

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 ❤.

@darthbanana7 2 жыл бұрын

accidentally clicked on this video and wound up thoroughly enjoying it and learning a lot of new stuff

@hotsprinkles 2 жыл бұрын

Wow I got here early! Love the content

@TheColdWarTV 2 жыл бұрын

thank you, glad you are enjoying it!

@pierrelegendre8791 6 ай бұрын

I so proud to be an Algerian

@tucia8783 4 ай бұрын

You really can! ❤

@budwyzer77 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@nunbiz7328 2 жыл бұрын

What does that have to do with anything?

@nunbiz7328 2 жыл бұрын

@VoltigeurFR wasn't responding to you bruv

@noobster4779 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@nunbiz7328 2 жыл бұрын

@@noobster4779 Yeah maybe the rebels shouldn't have depopulated mining towns and smash infants against rocks.

@joeblow9657 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@redrum707monkey 7 ай бұрын

this was a great episode 👍

@makhoc6602 Ай бұрын

thanks bro

@theawesomeman9821 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@nomadnametab 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@theawesomeman9821 2 жыл бұрын

@@nomadnametab just be happy for the native people

@Perkelenaattori 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@dillonhillier 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@6paths142 2 жыл бұрын

@@dillonhillier I think he is referring franceafrique.

@sancota1 2 жыл бұрын

The animations are great, but the sound effects are a bit too loud. Just turning them a bit down would make them less distracting

@ossama4532 5 ай бұрын

thank you for this ring 🙏🏽

@user-cp3et5xc6q 6 ай бұрын

شكرا جزيلا لك على هذا المجهود الكبير

@Ayhamzitouni 5 ай бұрын

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 ،

@valrabellkeys9867 6 ай бұрын

My takeaway is the French had multiple opportunities to make this a LOT better and just set every opportunity on fire.

@user-cg2tw8pw7j 6 ай бұрын

France was paranoid and Britain was very, very smart

@flawlessbinary7449 2 жыл бұрын

A friend of mine lost his parents to this war

@F_imperialists 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@souadbenali5668 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@james_baker Жыл бұрын

Congratulations, that has to be the coolest water effects on your map that I have ever seen. 😺

@stuartpeacock8257 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant explanation of a period in my life 60 years ago

@semsemoussamatayebi8923 Жыл бұрын

Glory to our martyrs 🇩🇿❤

@belabbesmeriem8997 6 ай бұрын

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 ❤

@antoniocarrascosa6060 Жыл бұрын

Estupendo documental...enhorabuena

@Mrgunsngear 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@CMDPromptify Жыл бұрын

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.

@saidultima Жыл бұрын

this has nothing to do with cold war, this was jihad for sake of Allah

@mohamedaboelenein7727 2 жыл бұрын

Fun Fact: PLO was largely based on the FLN in beginning, Given how similar both scenarios are.

@TheVideoNorm 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. This documentary is instructive in light of 40s/50s history. Kudos!

@bishop6218 2 жыл бұрын

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...

@juleslandry7585 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@bishop6218 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 😉

@comradekenobi6908 2 жыл бұрын

@@juleslandry7585 there's a lot of members of the foreign legion that are German, might explain why

@scratchy996 2 жыл бұрын

@@comradekenobi6908 Not only German, but former SS.

@comradekenobi6908 2 жыл бұрын

@@scratchy996 yeah

@jimayder7580 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@dude7803 2 жыл бұрын

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

@josephmccarthy7331 2 жыл бұрын

If only Ferhat Abbas had been chosen to lead Algeria it would have been better

@someoneyeah7683 2 жыл бұрын

@@dude7803 Your great uncle is Ahmed Francis ?

@Yellow.1844 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@jacquesconstantine6521 2 жыл бұрын

@@josephmccarthy7331 ferhat abbas the one who wanted une Algerie française !??

@moundher4900 6 ай бұрын

08/05/1945 didn't result the death of some protestors, it literally resulted the death of over 45000 people. Some french historians say that the death were somewhere near 90000 people!!

@alioshax7797 2 ай бұрын

45 000 people is the number publicly defended by the Algerian government. Truth is, estimations vary between 2000 and 90 000 people, so it's hard to say. Bloody event in any ways.

@jamesmary7021 2 жыл бұрын

Wow amazing history

@CR7_2006Editz 2 жыл бұрын

An Algerian was Here 🇩🇿,God Bless The 1.5 Million Hero's.

@saidultima Жыл бұрын

Allah yarham al shouhada

@CR7_2006Editz Жыл бұрын

@@saidultima ameen

@Moor0077 Жыл бұрын

They were 200K not 1.5 million.

@CR7_2006Editz Жыл бұрын

@@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, 🇲🇦🇩🇿

@Moor0077 Жыл бұрын

@@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?

@Numba003 Жыл бұрын

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. ✝️ :)

@itzhakadelson9506 2 жыл бұрын

Animation in this episode is really cool😎

@oussamanaimi4372 Жыл бұрын

My Grandfather is called Abbad Bouziane and he was a martyr in this war.

@straddlecakes 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@canman5060 2 жыл бұрын

This is the best book I have ever read.

@edalder2000 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@sudiptabhattacharjee2052 2 жыл бұрын

"The day of the jackal" is the bestest of bests.

@mjstbnsn6294 2 жыл бұрын

@@sudiptabhattacharjee2052 I got the movie also.

@sudiptabhattacharjee2052 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.