TimeGhost History
Published 23 Nov 2025This episode tracks how the doctrine “Algeria is France” — departments, settler power, and forced assimilation — breeds dispossession, mass violence, and a new Algerian nationalism: from conquest and the Sétif massacres to the FLN’s launch in 1954 and Philippeville in 1955. As Paris doubles its forces and passes Special Powers, Suez intertwines with the war, bombings in Algiers begin, and Lacoste hands police powers to General Massu — opening the Battle of Algiers and a system of torture.
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Archive footage: Screenocean/Reuters – https://www.screenocean.comHosted by: Spartacus Olsson & Sebastian Brandstetter
Director: Astrid Deinhard
Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson
Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson
Co-produced by: Sebastian Brandstetter
Creative Director: Iryna Dulka
Community Management: Anna Deinhard & Tom Aldis
Written by: Sebastian Brandstetter, Spartacus Olsson
Research by: Sebastian Brandstetter, Spartacus Olsson
Edited by: Karolina Dołęga
Color grading by: Karolina Dołęga
Artwork by: Himanka Kalita
Sound design by: Marek KamińskiColorizations by: Mikołaj Uchman & Karolina Dołęga
Image sources:
National Archives NARA
David Rumsey Historical Map CollectionSoundtracks from Epidemic Sound:
“Dark Beginning” – Johan Hynynen
“Darkness Closing In” – Max Anson
“Forever to Run” – Howard Harper-Barnes
“Last Man Standing 3” – Johannes Bornlöf
“Last Minute Reaction” – Phoenix Tail
“Last Point of Safe Return” – Fabien Tell
“Leave It All Here” – Fabien Tell
“London” – Howard Harper-Barnes
“Ominous” – Philip Ayers
“Plausible Cause” – Fabien Tell
“Please Hear Me Out” – Philip Ayers
“Refined Enlightenment” – Howard Harper-Barnes
“Rememberance” – Fabien Tell
“Secret Cargo” – Craft Case
“The End Of The World 2” – Håkan Eriksson
“The Inspector 4” – Johannes Bornlöf
“Weapon of Choice” – Fabien TellA TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.
November 24, 2025
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