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

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André Gazut

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Diego Masson

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Nils Andersson

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Jacques Baynac

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Anita Bernard

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André Bernard

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Claude Garino

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Jean-Claude Girardin

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Claude Glayman

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Lillis Kielland

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Pierre Leray

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Paul Kobisch

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Simone Mohr

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Jean Mohr

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Michel Monod

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Louis Orhant

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Jacques Pous

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