The Colonel Who Displayed the Dead: Antoine Argoud
In the late 1950s, a French Army colonel ordered suspected rebels executed in public squares—and left their bodies on display as a deliberate tool of terror. His name was Antoine Argoud.
A decorated officer turned OAS leader, Argoud admitted to torture, summary executions, and plotting against Charles de Gaulle. Then, in 1963, he was kidnapped from a Munich hotel and dumped, bound and beaten, in a van outside Paris police headquarters.
Host Alexander Lawson traces the rise, crimes, and extraordinary downfall of one of the most ruthless figures of the Algerian War and the secret war that…
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