Trans-Saharan Railway

The Trans-Saharan Railway was a project conducted by France to build a rail line south through Algeria to sub-Saharan Africa.

[2] An engineer, Monsieur A. Duponchel, was the creator of the large plan; in 1900, French paper Le Matin announced that it would proceed by private initiative following a long campaign in its favour by Pierre Paul Leroy-Beaulieu.

Additionally, the railway was supposed to transform the region and make it a leading producer in cotton and agricultural goods.

[4] World War II coincided with the construction of the railway which led to it being built by slave labor in 1941–1942.

Tortures and atrocities were inflicted by the guards for the slightest breach of the rules; the internees were not treated as human beings.

Enslaved laborers used for the project.
The Trans-Saharan Railway as proposed by Georges Rolland , a French engineer and a member of the Corps des mines .