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30 - History
University of Edinburgh
Eine Million Algerier lernen im 20. Jahrhundert zu leben : Umsiedlungslager und Zwangsmodernisierung im Algerienkrieg 1954-1962
One of the most astonishing characteristics of the Algerian War of Independence against France is the combination between military struggle against insurrection and civil reform projects. One special aspect of this war allows us to identify the fusion of these two elements:French resettlement policy.The French army violently forced up to three million people into especially built camps, called «camps de regroupement».The «camps de regroupement» can be described as laboratories of modernization in which apparently contradictory elements were combined in a singular and unique way.Among these elements:development aid, an extremely rigid population control and different apparently totalitarian measures of social engineering.