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CHoosing at Twenty
Between 1954-1962, one hundred to three hundred young French people refused to participate in the Algerian war. These rebels, soldiers or conscripts were non-violent or anti-colonialists. Some took refuge in Switzerland where Swiss citizens came to their aid, while in France they were condemned as traitors to the country. In 1962, a few months after Independence, Villi Hermann went to a region devastated by war near the Algerian-Moroccan border, to help rebuild a school. In 2016 he returned to Algeria and reunited with his former students. He also met French refractories, now living in France or Switzerland.
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Freddy Buache Self
Nils Andersson Self
Anita Bernard Self
André Bernard Self
Claude Garino Self
Jean-Claude Girardin Self
Claude Glayman Self
Lillis Kielland Self
Pierre Leray Self
Paul Kobisch Self
Simone Mohr Self
Michel Monod Self
Louis Orhant Self
Jacques Pous Self
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