
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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