Bulletin d’information numéro 137 du 6 août 1940 sur les communes de Colomb-Béchar, El-Oued, Ghardaia
Description
This newsletter describes, for the commune of Colomb-Béchar, the organization of vouchers for food. It also mentions there that “the defeat of France is a hard lesson wanted by God to warn her against the errors of government. In the annex of El-Oued,” the propaganda pursued in the native circles has for happy results the intensification of food crops and the production of burnous “. In Ghardaia, the demobilization brings back many indigenous reservists.
Commune mixte during the French colonial period is a neighborhood managed by civil servants French, Arab (indigenous) and Jews.
The document can be consulted at the documentation center, Institut Ben-Zvi. Appointment required.