Death Squads: The French School

Sep 01, 2003 59m

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Synopsis

After the Battle of Algiers, France and its army exported, as true experts, anti-subversive methods to Latin America and the United States in the 1960s. After more than a year of investigation in Argentina , in Chile, Brazil, the United States and France, the director collected, sometimes under the cover of a hidden camera, recorded conversations, the exclusive testimonies of the main protagonists. From General Aussaresses to former Minister of the Armed Forces Pierre Messmer, including General Reynaldo Bignone (head of the military junta in Argentina from 1982 to 1984), General Albano Harguindéguy, General Manuel Contreras, and Generals John Johns and Carl Bernard, this investigation gives us a hidden reality of the country of Human Rights.

Title	Death Squads: The French School
Companies	ARTE, SODEC, Productions Thalie, WDR, RTS, Libérations Films, ONF \| NFB
Countries	Canada, France, Italy, Switzerland
Keywords	fascism, racism, nazi collaborationism, torture victim, illegal militia, police violence, political violence