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France must reckon with its dark history in Algeria. It’s not too late.

It took France more than half a century to start owning up to its collaboration in the Holocaust during World War II. In 1995, President Jacques Chirac formally admitted that his fellow countrymen had willingly helped to round up Jews before sending them to be murdered in Nazi concentration camps. President Emmanuel Macron recalled Chirac’s apology during…

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Tags : Algeria France, Memory, colonization,

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