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The Algeria war brought many controversies, so what do you want to know ?
Personally, I don't want to know anything about the Algerian war I don't already know. It was a classic nasty little war like many other insurgencies throughout the last century. It is hard to distinguish when the insurgents are Mao's little fish. Believe me, I know from experience that sometimes innocents die, especially in an insurgency. I would hesitate to pass judgment on any commander who faced what the French did in Algeria. If anything, they showed remarkable restraint given conditions there.The Germans are not the only ones to try and use the Partisan activity justifies reprisals rationale. The Russians did it in '44 and the French used it in Algeria just like Calley tried to do at his trial. The main difference, like so often in any war, is who the eventual winners are. Victory does tend to justify just about anything. If "Bomber" Harris had been German he would have been on trial at Nuremberg, it just so happens he was British and so instead of being a war criminal he is the mastermind of a strategy that helped shorten the war. It all depends on which color glasses you wear.
I do agree with you Senator 🙂
Panels say: Keep Off, Unsafe Structure Keep Away !! None are in German nor Japanese, why ? ;D However some interesting cave paintings. 8)
Can you give us a little more background. I assume you are referring to an incident that happened in Algeria?Not too many people in the States know much about the French experience in Algeria. I have only read one book about it and I have studied military history for over twenty years. there is just not much English language scholarship on the Algerian War, there probably should be though.
The Algeria war brought many controversies, so what do you want to know ?
Update: I see now, it is something like what happened to Lidice.
Right, such as many places during WWII
Oradour-sur-Glane is a commune in the Limousin region in west-central France.The original village was destroyed on 10 June 1944, when 642 of its inhabitants were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company (the 4th Waffen-SS ("Der F?hrer") Panzer-Grenadier Regiment) On the 10th of June 44, all the women and children were taken and locked into the church while the village itself was looted. Soldiers proceeded to the church and put an incendiary device in place there. After it was ignited, women and children tried to flee through the doors and windows of the church but were met with machine-gun fire. Meanwhile, the men were led to six barns and sheds where machine-gun nests were already in place.Sturmbannf?hrer Adolf Diekmann claimed that it was a just retaliation due to partisan activity. A new village was built after the war on a nearby site and the original has been maintained as a memorial.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6946159.stm
TMO if Rome really wanted to keep conquering over the territories behind the Rhine, nothing would had stopped them. What was valuable there at the time ? Forests, remote villages, nothing precious enough to sacrifice more men. Same with later invasions, Germanic or Hunnic ones: they just crossed those territories to catch the western parts of Europe: current Belgium, Netherlands, France and Italy if they could.Teutoburg was like a warning : Rome was not invincible.Rome collapsed 4 centuries after that battle.
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