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Paul Aussaresses (b. November 1918) is a retired French Army General who has generated great controversy over his actions during the Algerian War of Independence.
Aussaresses was career Army intelligence officer with an excellent military record when he joined the Free French Forces in North Africa during the Second World War. In 1947 he was given command of 11th Shock Battalion, a commando unit that was part of SDECE, French intelligence.
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General Aussaresses has since been stripped of his rank and the right to wear his military uniform, as well as his Legion d'Honneur. The latter act he dismissed as hypocritical.
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