The other 8 May 1945 at the time of the Algiers-Paris crisis

LETTER OF ALGER. The commemoration of the massacres of 8 May 1945 in Algeria is fully part of the sequence of crisis between Algiers and Paris.

On Thursday 8 May, at the four corners of the hexagon, sheaves of flowers are laid at the foot of monuments to the dead, Marseillaises are sounding and speeches are delivered in homage... The Marseille article: "L'autre 8 mai 1945", the ceremony that makes the opposition jump appeared first on current values.

While the German capitulation of 8 May 1945 gave rise to a general sluggishness in the metropolis, it inaugurated a new era of violence and injustice in the French colonies.