مجازر 8 ماي 1945 بمنطقة قالمة : بداية الطريق نحو نوفمبر 1954

Abstract EN

The colonial repression imposed on Algerian Muslims reached its peak of colonial barbarism in the me of May 1945 and after (collective assassinations, arrests and arbitrary judgments, collective massacres etc...).

This repression is unsurpassed in the history of the contemporary world don the premises were already, at the beginning of colonization in 1830.

The strategic objective of the massacres of the civilians defenseless against France was clear: "maintain the Algeria a French land.

So, is broken nationalist momentum of the national movement since the Algerian manifesto of February 1943, to ensure the safety of the settlers (peace for ten years) according to the expression of the general Duval who himself oversaw the operations of repression However, this "barbaric and without limits blind" repression, gave rise to a series of events that, in final, contributed to the outbreak of the war of liberation in 1954