Ravensbrück survivor Germaine Tillion organized a commission against Algeria’s concentrationary abuses
Evidence
Having returned to France in January 1956, Germaine Tillion had become increasingly disturbed by accounts of torture and public executions in Algeria that percolated through to her from the centres sociaux she had set up under Soustelle’s administration. Consequently, reinforced by her own grim experiences of Ravensbrück, she had set to to organise a Commission Internationale contre le Régime Concentrationnaire en Algérie and, backed by a special dispensation from Prime Minister Mollet, she arrived with it in Algiers in June, just as Yacef’s new bombing offensive was getting under way. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 662
Categorization
- XREF: Direct echo of the deportation-concentration camp theme that structures the ‘concentrationary regime’ critique of French Algeria. — connects to: Nazi concentration camp survivor Germaine Tillion sought to halt torture and executions in Algeria