Algerians could not ascribe each destroyed site to a particular side

Evidence

Now, in its despair at realising that all was lost, the O.A.S. adopted a “scorched earth policy”. If the French cannot, or will not, remain, the O.A.S. argued, then we shall leave Algeria as it was when they arrived in 1830. After a brief respite, on 7 June the University of Algiers library was burned; then followed the destruction of schools, laboratories and hospital facilities — the finest benefits that French civilisation had bestowed on Algeria. In the biggest explosion to date, Algiers’s fine new Hôtel de Ville was blown up; finally, in June, Oran’s vast B.P. oil storage tanks went up in a great pillar of smoke. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1614 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Defeated European settlers destroyed Algerian infrastructure out of revenge — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1614

Related

• Defeated European settlers destroyed Algerian infrastructure out of revenge (similarity 0.96)
• Defeated OAS destroyed Algeria’s French-built infrastructure and institutions (similarity 0.87)
• Algeria preserved but blanked out French colonial war memorials rather than demolishing them (similarity 0.82)
• OAS violence deliberately destroyed the communities it claimed to defend (similarity 0.81)
• France made substantial material and infrastructural improvements in Algeria (similarity 0.79)
• Postwar industrial development erased pied noir settlements faster than Roman ruins eroded (similarity 0.79)
• Pied noir survival in Algeria was untenable even without O.A.S. violence (similarity 0.79)
• French troops looted and destroyed Algerian villages with gratuitous joy (similarity 0.79)
• The O.A.S. terror campaign backfired and sped French withdrawal from Algeria. (similarity 0.78)
• The Battle of Algiers marked the end of any possibility of negotiated settlement (similarity 0.78)
• French official archives still held Algeria war secrets long after the conflict (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Defeated European settlers destroyed Algerian infrastructure out of revenge #expands (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1614