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French North Africa

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French North Africa
n
(Placename) the former French possessions of Algeria, French Morocco, and Tunisia
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I made my own small contribution to this growing historiographical field with a biography of Maxime Weygand, published in 2008, including chapters on the general's extreme, courageous Vichy opposition to the Nazis, via supervision of spying aiding the British, preservation of a relatively free French North Africa to Americans and British present there at the time of TORCH, etc.
The changing image of Vichy in France by Singer, Barnett / Contemporary Review
Denis Smyth, "Screening 'Torch': Allied Counter-intelligence and the Spanish Threat to the Secrecy of the Allied Invasion of French North Africa in November, 1942," Intelligence and National Security 4, no.
Intelligence and deception in operation Torch by Patch, John / Naval War College Review
The use of mental stereotyping as a weapon in the colonial mission is familiar to many, but Keller complicates the matter by arguing that in French North Africa psychiatry could also act "as a tool for the emancipation of the colonized, an innovative branch of social and medical science, an uncomprehending therapeutic system, a discipline in crisis, and a mechanism for negotiating the meaning of difference for republican citizenship" (p.
Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa by McCorristine, Shane / African Studies Quarterly
 
 
 
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