| Titre | DES APPELÉS PAS COMME LES AUTRES ? LES CONSCRITS « FRANÇAIS DE SOUCHE NORD-AFRICAINE » PENDANT LA GUERRE D'ALGÉRIE | |
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| Auteur | Stéphanie Chauvin | |
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Revue |
20 & 21. Revue d'histoire Titre à cette date : Vingtième siècle, revue d'histoire |
| Numéro | no 48, octobre-décembre 1995 | |
| Page | 21-30 | |
| Résumé anglais | The "French of North African origin" draftees during the Algerian war, Stéphanie Chauvin. During the Algerian conflict, the French army had to corne to grips with a delicate problem, that of the drafting of Muslim natives, called up like all young French men, to take part in the operations of the national army. Some of the military considered the general drafting of this special population a military as much as a political error. Nevertheless, many Algerians were enrolled to fight against what the Republic saw as a rebellion. There was even a policy of increasing the numbers of "Frenchmen of North African origin" because of rising needs and so as to assi- milate them. Suspected by the rest of the army of lacking loyalty, the Muslim conscripts where also subjected to the pressure of the FLN which tried to use them to weaken the French army from inside. Very few, however, deserted once enrolled. Was that a sign of loyalty to France? | |
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