The Foreign Legionnaire - How Basel native René Schüpbach fought in the Algerian War (Swiss Press Video 2015, by Adrian Plachesi) - Swiss Press Award
Telebasel, Sendung «Telebasel Report»
Video
2015
Adrian Plachesi
Beaten by his parents, cast out as a hired boy: René Schüpbach's unhappy childhood led him to the Foreign Legion. As a fighter for France's colonial policy, Schüpbach experienced the Algerian War at its most brutal. In the Telebasel Report, he breaks his years of silence and recounts how he experienced war and torture in the Legion, but also found a second family.
