Algeria: France’s War It Refused to Name - W2W 054

This episode tracks how the doctrine “Algeria is France” — departments, settler power, and forced assimilation — breeds dispossession, mass violence, and a new Algerian nationalism: from conquest and the Sétif massacres to the FLN’s launch in 1954 and Philippeville in 1955. As Paris doubles its forces and passes Special Powers, Suez intertwines with the war, bombings in Algiers begin, and Lacoste hands police powers to General Massu—opening the Battle of Algiers and a system of torture.

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Hosted by: Spartacus Olsson & Sebastian Brandstetter
Director: Astrid Deinhard
Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson
Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson
Co-produced by: Sebastian Brandstetter
Creative Director: Iryna Dulka
Community Management: Anna Deinhard & Tom Aldis
Written by: Sebastian Brandstetter, Spartacus Olsson
Research by: Sebastian Brandstetter, Spartacus Olsson
Edited by: Karolina Dołęga
Color grading by: Karolina Dołęga
Artwork by: Himanka Kalita
Sound design by: Marek Kamiński

Colorizations by:
Mikołaj Uchman
Karolina Dołęga

Archive footage: https://www.screenocean.com

Image sources:
National Archives NARA
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection


Soundtracks from Epidemic Sound:

Dark Beginning - Johan Hynynen
Darkness Closing In - Max Anson
Forever to Run - Howard Harper-Barnes
Last Man Standing 3 - Johannes Bornlöf
Last Minute Reaction - Phoenix Tail
Last Point of Safe Return - Fabien Tell
Leave It All Here - Fabien Tell
London - Howard Harper-Barnes
Ominous - Philip Ayers
Plausible Cause - Fabien Tell
Please Hear Me Out - Philip Ayers
Refined Enlightenment - Howard Harper-Barnes
Rememberance - Fabien Tell
Secret Cargo - Craft Case
The End Of The World 2 - Håkan Eriksson
The Inspector 4 - Johannes Bornlöf
Weapon of Choice - Fabien Tell

A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.