Maxime Weygand

World War II, June 1940. France has fallen and suffers the relentless boot of Nazi Germany. But Algeria, the prized French colony in North Africa, remains part of the territory controlled by the Vichy regime of Marshal Pétain. A strict colonial order is maintained: the French of European origin rule, while local Jews are stripped of French citizenship and discrimination against the mainly Muslim population increases.

Józef Piłsudski died on May 12, 1935. Many Poles were deeply affected by his passing. The Marshal's funeral was a grand patriotic ceremony that lasted several days and attracted hundreds of thousands of people.