In France the sack-loads of archives removed from the Gouvernement-Général in the last days of the war lie, sealed from the public gaze, in the repositories of the University of Aix-en-Provence; in Algiers, the official archives were only just beginning to be assembled in a splendid new centre in 1984. Yet, meanwhile, memories are fading and eye-witnesses dying, their recollections unrecorded.

QUESTION: What is in those sealed archives at Aix-en-Provence, and why are they still closed decades later? Worth investigating whether they have since been opened.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 36