In "They Joined the Front," a documentary by Jean Asselmeyer (2012), four key witnesses, now living in Algeria as fully fledged Agerians, show us what this colonization was really like, so "beneficial" that they themselves perceived it as the oppression of one people by another.

Three of them, whom we would today call "pieds noirs" (black feet), in other words, those Europeans to whom France, the occupying power, gave the best land, taken from the indigenous populations, jobs, and exclusive rights not shared by the general population, lived rather well compared to the majority of "natives."

The fourth was far from all this and lived in Argentina. Annie Steiner, Felix Colozzi, Pierre Chaulet, and Roberto Muniz explain what led them to show solidarity with the struggle of the weak and the humiliated, and to risk their freedom and their lives by committing to the liberation of Algeria.