The Untold Story of the Algerian War of Independence

🌍Decolonization process in the second half of the twentieth Century

🇩🇿Algerians sought sovereignty as reward for war efforts.

🇫🇷French offer of citizenship post-WWII sparked protests for full independence.

🔑French Prime Minister and Interior Minister affirm Algerian departments as integral part of France.

🌐FLN supporters in Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco with differing views on future governance of independent Algeria.

🏙️Focus on mid-sized urban area due to inability to attack large cities.

⚔️FLN soldiers target Philippeville with 3,000 troops against French garrison.

💔FLN attack costly with up to two thirds casualties, targeting French civilians.

💣FLN orders attacks on French civilians resulting in retaliation bombings

🤝Leaders of Algerian Revolution establish National Council after meeting at Soummam Conference

🔍Thousands of troops and security forces implemented a quadrillage system in Algiers, conducting house-to-house searches.

⛓️Approximately 80,000 Algerians were interrogated, with torture and collective punishment leading to thousands of deaths and disappearances.

☮️By late March 1957, FLN structure in Algiers was largely dismantled, and relative peace was restored with the withdrawal of the 10th Parachute.

🇫🇷France established control over Algeria but faced political instability.

👥French leftists sympathized with Algerian independence, causing concern among the Armed Forces.

🚧Independence proclamation led to mass exodus to France, including pied noir, harkis, and Algerian Jews.

☠️War for independence resulted in 1.5 million deaths, terror attacks, and societal fractures in French society.

🌍New nation born in Northern Africa faced challenges of dictatorship and remaining seeds of conflict from the war.