Special about Moroccan soldiers : ALCOM

Collection title

My country

ID

SNR00330

Source

SNRT (MA)

First broadcast date

09/08/2008

Production year

2008

Abstract

On the sidelines of the ceremony commemorating the end of World War II, and the victory of Europe over Nazism, the program "My country" devoted an episode to the Moroccan soldiers, called ALCOM. There were some 85,000 soldiers who took sides with France and the allies during the Second World War. The program visits "Des Passons" cemetry in Aubagne, where soldiers killed during the war were buried, among them Moroccans. The speaker and his guest Hamid Marhalet, President of the National Federation of Veteran soldiers, present the history of ALCOM and the battles fought over the European territories. Along the streets of Marseille, the program notes the current financial conditions of the surviving soldiers and the late rise in their wages.

Type

video

Production companies

• SNRT - Own production

Broadcaster

SNRT - AlAoula

Audiovisual form

Magazine

Primary theme

Contemporary historical challenges 19th-20th c.

Secondary themes

• Society and way of life / Migrations

Credits / Cast

• Al Abyad Mustapha - Journalist

Period of events

• From 1925 to 1950

Map locations

• France - South East - Aubagne

Original language

Arabic

Media running time

20m43

Additional information

Photos from archives of World War II from the French National Audiovisual Institute (INA)