Talk:Henri Alleg

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message: Henri Alleg (1921 - ) was a French national who became famous for his role in the French-Algerian 'War Without a Name' (1954-1962) after the publication of Italic textLa QuestionItalic text in 1958.
Alleg moved to Algeria in 1939, and as an 18 year old was intimately involved with the Algerian Community Party. He became the editor of the Alger Republicain, an Algerian daily sympathetic to Algerian nationalism, from 1950 to 1955. The newspaper was banned in September of 1955 by the French authorities. In November of 1956, after many of his colleagues at the newspaper were arrested, Alleg went into hiding. On June 12, 1957 he was arrested by the 10th Parachutist Division in the home of his friend, Maurice Audin who was arrested the day before and would die while imprisoned under questionable circumstances. He underwent one month of torture in El-Biar, a suburb of Algiers, before being transferred to a 'camp' in Lodi (all in Algeria) despite the fact that no charges had been laid against him. Finally, on August 17, 1957, as a communist party member, he was formally charged with offenses against the external safety of the State and the rebuilding of a dissolved league. He was sentenced to ten years in prison, during which  he wrote La Question (Question(1958) in English; translation by John Calder) which chronicled the torture he endured throughout the thirty days he spent in El-Biar. Alleg had used the real names of his torturers in his narrative, many of them highly decorated officers. Upon it's publication on February 12, 1958, the text quickly spread shockwaves through the French population, and the French government immediately banned the book for political reasons the same year as its publication, the first book to be banned for political reasons in France since the 18th century. The book was reprinted in March of 1958 by Swiss press, and translated by John Calder and printed in English the same year. Despite the ban, the novel continued to circulate underground in France, and served as a means of revealing the scope of torture during the Algerian War. Alleg escaped from prison and made his way to Czechoslovakia. With the passing of the Evian Accords in 1962, Alleg returned to France and then Algeria. He helped rebuild the Alger Republicain and continued to publish numerous books and appear in several documentaries.
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*  Henri Salem
*  Harry Salem
*  "...attempting to reconstitute a dissolved league."
*  Lodi
*  El-Biar
*  El Biar  {I did write a redirect.}
*  La Question
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message: I'm curious (though it isn't really my business) as to how Mr. Alleg's health is. At 91 and after the horrendous ordeal he underwent in 1957, I would imagine he may have some ill health. I read The Question in a college history class a couple years ago, and am amazed at his strength and courage. Since the torture was graphically described, I'm just curious. 74.69.11.229 (talk) 23:34, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
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message: Saying he was subjected to "many cruel tortures", though technically true, is a violation of NPOV. It should be rewritten to be more objective. 74.69.9.224 (talk) 21:52, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
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