Visionnez ici l'intégralité de la cérémonie du 5 décembre 2021, également accessible sur Facebook et Tweeter

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Retrouvez ici le message de Madame Geneviève DARRIEUSSECQ, ministre déléguée auprès de la ministre des Armées, chargée de la mémoire et des anciens combattants
 

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Access a whole series of resources on the Algerian
War and the fighting in Morocco and Tunisia

A rich themed tour on the end of the French protectorate in Tunisia and Morocco

• The INA offers the chance to watch a series of short, contextualised videos which chart the events leading up to the independence of Morocco and Tunisia, from the shock of the Second World War to the Bizerte Crisis in 1961.

General articles on the Fifth Republic and the Algerian War

• 1958, une nouvelle république en guerre, (1958: a new republic at war), a special feature in issue no 265 of Les Chemins de la Mémoire 
• De Gaulle et l’Algérie, (De Gaulle and Algeria), an article by Maurice Vaïsse in issue no 226 of Les Chemins de la Mémoire

Analyses and testimonies recorded by ONAC-VG to evoke the diversity of individual experiences

• Les militaires de carrière. (Career soldiers). Watch an analysis by historian Raphaëlle Branche, together with first-hand accounts collected by ONAC-VG.
• Les appelés. (The conscripts). Watch an analysis by historian Tramor Quemeneur, together with first-hand accounts collected by ONAC-VG. Former barrack master Claude Pécol recalls his experiences. 
• Les Harkis. (The harkis). Watch an analysis by historian Abderahmen Moumen, together with first-hand accounts collected by ONAC-VG.
• Les Français d'Algérie. (The Algerian French). Watch analyses by historians Jean-Jacques Jordi and Yann Scioldo-Zurcher-Levi, together with first-hand accounts collected by ONAC-VG

Remembrance sites and dates to honour the victims

• Three dates for one conflict: the unusual case of Algeria. A discussion of the national days of commemoration in the special commemorative edition of Les Chemins de la Mémoire
• The National Memorial to the Algerian War and the fighting in Morocco and Tunisia

A database for carrying out research

• On the website “Mémoire des Hommes”, search the database of French service personnel killed in North Africa, in the Algerian War and in the fighting in Morocco and Tunisia 

Photographs illustrating the period 1954-62

• Explore ECPAD’s Algeria collection
• View a slide show of selected photos of the Algerian War from the ECPAD collection: