Still Behind Enemy Lines? Algerian And Tunisian Veterans After The World Wars

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ID20064302
AuthorsThomas Degeorges (corresponding author)
Year2010
Pages519-546
Publication date2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueWorld in World Wars (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/ej.9789004185456.i-618.126
OpenAlexW2488417036
ISBN9789004185456
LanguageEN
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Much of the scholarship available on North African veterans treats their role during wartime or catalogues their recollections of neglect in the post-war period. However, the inner workings of French policy within the context of the post-war period in North Africa have remained unexplored. This chapter, based on research in French and Tunisian archives, as well as literary and cinematic representations, seeks to complement the work of Gilbert Meynier, Moshe Gershovich and others by providing the details of social policy designed to support North African veterans after the World Wars. It tells the inter-related stories of the government bureaucracy set up to settle the veterans war claims, veterans associations, and individual veterans themselves during the post-war period after both world wars. The policy failure to provide essential pensions and other benefits for most North African troops had unintended impact upon the rural and poorly educated Algerian and Tunisian veterans. Keywords: Algerian veterans; North African soldiers; Tunisian veterans; World Wars

Adversary · Art · Bureaucracy · Foreign policy · Neglect · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Scholarship · Sociology · World War II · African history and culture studies · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Medicine · North African History and Literature

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