Conscripts forced to commit torture brought psychological scars back to metropolitan France
Evidence
It was not only public revelations that brought the “gangrene” of torture home to France; the young men who had been forced to administer it brought it back in their own persons, profoundly—and often permanently—marked by their experiences. Vidal-Naquet quotes a letter from a young soldier: — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 730
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Perpetrators of torture carried its moral damage home to France in person; Torture became institutionalized in the French army during the Battle of Algiers — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 592; The Palestro massacre of conscripts turned metropolitan French families against the war — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 726 (+4 more)
Related
- Perpetrators of torture carried its moral damage home to France in person (similarity 0.94)
- Torture more than any single factor caused France’s Algerian defeat (similarity 0.86)
- Torture in Algeria left a lingering poison in the French system (similarity 0.85)
- Torture boomeranged against France in the Algerian war (similarity 0.85)
- French soldiers who saw Belsen recognized the same moral degradation in Algeria’s torture (similarity 0.85)
- The Battle of Algiers exposed torture as a lasting poison for France (similarity 0.85)
- Torture became institutionalized in the French army during the Battle of Algiers (similarity 0.84)
- Torture’s contested truth made it a lasting canker for France (similarity 0.84)
- Torture won the Battle of Algiers but lost the war for France (similarity 0.84)
- Torture psychologically damages the torturer even more than the victim (similarity 0.83)
- Torture was the chief factor in France’s defeat. (similarity 0.83)
- Torture in Algeria threatened France with state self-destruction (similarity 0.83)
- The Palestro massacre of conscripts turned metropolitan French families against the war (similarity 0.83)
- Torture proved a boomerang weapon that undermined the power using it (similarity 0.82)
- Torture’s Nazi echoes caused France’s defeat despite its military supremacy (similarity 0.82)
Broader Connections
- Torture backfired as a boomerang weapon in the Algerian war.
#exemplifies(0.75) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1659 - Torture boomeranged against France in the Algerian war
#exemplifies(0.70) - The Battle of Algiers exposed torture as a lasting poison for France
#expands(0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 580 - Torture psychologically damages the torturer even more than the victim
#expands(0.55) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 614