How to face the past? (2nd part)

The French Republic has always had a top-down approach to history and what’s part and parcel of the country’s collective memory. What’s the trend on such painful episodes as the Nazi occupation, the slave trade, and the Algerian War of independence?

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Programme prepared by Perrine Desplats

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