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  1. Tillion, Germaine (1907—)Pioneering French ethnologist, a student of Algerian desert tribes, who was an early leader in the French Resistance during World War II, survived internment at the Ravensbrück concentration camp, wrote a germinal study of the camp system, and worked for peace during the Algerian War for Independence.

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    Ravensbrück. 1946; revised and expanded edition, 1973; translated as Ravensbrück,1975; revised edition, 1988.

    L'Algérie en 1957. 1957; as Algeria: The Realities,1958. Les Ennemis-complémentaires. 1960; as France and Algeria: Complementary Enemies,1961. L'Afrique bascule vers l'avenir; L'Algerie en 1957 et autres textes.1960. Le Harem et les cousins. 1966; as The Republic of Cousins: Women's Oppression in Mediterranean Society,1983. La Traversée du mal: Ent...

    "Reflections on Three Ravensbrucks" by Pierre Vidal-Naquet, translated by David Ames Curtis, in South Atlantic Quarterly, 96(4), Fall 1997, pp. 881-94; Le Témoignage est un combat: Une biographie de Germaine Tillionby Jean Lacouture, 2000. When she joined one of the first cells of the French resistance in Paris in 1940, Germaine Tillion was a risin...

  4. Germaine Tillion (1907-2008) Interred at the Panthéon on 27 May 2015, Germaine Tillion was an ethnologist at the Musée de l’Homme and a pioneer of the French Resistance.

  5. Germaine Tillion (30 May 1907 – 18 April 2008) was a French ethnologist, known for her work in Algeria in the 1950s on behalf of the Government of France. A member of the French Resistance in World War II, she spent time in Ravensbrück concentration camp.

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  7. Germaine Tillion has often been a misunderstood and even controversial figure. But her growing renown in her native France and abroad bears witness to the pertinence of her critical perspectives and the precision of her historical analyses. She presently holds the position of honorary Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en