Algeria preserved but blanked out French colonial war memorials rather than demolishing them

Evidence

On the way to Camus’s ravishing Tipasa then I noted how the typically France bandstands that once dominated the main square of small provincial towns were no longer there. In the heart of Algiers itself (a much less dour, perhaps more self-assured city, than I remembered it from 1973), on the Plateau des Glières which had provided the focus for the events of 1958, the hideous Monument aux Morts still stood. But — instead of removing it in its entirety — the Algerians had simply rendered over with cement its excessive bas-reliefs to colonial feats of arms. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1693

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to debates about Confederate monuments and how postcolonial societies handle the victors’ memorials they inherit. — connects to: Official naming of the Algerian conflict shaped military honors and refused war status; Defeated European settlers destroyed Algerian infrastructure out of revenge — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1614; French colonial war archives remained sealed while memories and witnesses faded. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 36

Related

• Official naming of the Algerian conflict shaped military honors and refused war status (similarity 0.90)
• French colonial war archives remained sealed while memories and witnesses faded. (similarity 0.88)
• French official archives still held Algeria war secrets long after the conflict (similarity 0.82)
• Algerians could not ascribe each destroyed site to a particular side (similarity 0.82)
• Defeated European settlers destroyed Algerian infrastructure out of revenge (similarity 0.82)
• The Algerian war was simultaneously a war of peace and one of extreme savagery (similarity 0.79)
• Algerians credited France’s Algerian achievements as benefiting French settlers, not natives. (similarity 0.79)
• Algeria’s loss paradoxically produced a stronger postcolonial France (similarity 0.79)
• Postwar industrial development erased pied noir settlements faster than Roman ruins eroded (similarity 0.79)
• French Algérie served as a defensive bulwark against Soviet influence (similarity 0.79)