Algeria 1943: A Colony Under Vichy Control
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View on VideBits →World War II, June 1940. France has fallen and suffers the relentless boot of Nazi Germany. But Algeria, the prized French colony in North Africa, remains part of the territory controlled by the Vichy regime of Marshal Pétain. A strict colonial order is maintained: the French of European origin rule, while local Jews are stripped of French citizenship and discrimination against the mainly Muslim population increases.
Cast & crew
Alain Chouraqui · Benjamin Stora · Charles de Gaulle · Clémence Harimi-Zaradez · Dwight D. Eisenhower · François Darlan · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Henri Giraud · Jean Laloum · Winston Churchill · Stéphane Benhamou · Jacques Attali