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Tunisia reclaims lost voices of WWI riflemen from German archives

A military band of soldiers from the fourth North African Rifle Regiment on 1 September 1915. © Wikimedia/CC

Germany has returned hundreds of sound recordings of North African soldiers who were held as prisoners during World War I, helping to fill a major gap in Tunisia’s war archives.

During the French protectorate in Tunisia, thousands of soldiers were conscripted to fight in World War I as part of the African colonial riflemen – the tirailleurs. But little remains today in terms of archives or recordings documenting Tunisia’s role in the 1914-1918 conflict.

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