Daily mass killings in Algiers normalised death to the point of passers-by ignoring victims.

Evidence

Cities that had once enjoyed the flashy late-night existence of an Alicante now became East Berlins — but East Berlins ruled by the mores of Chicago of the “Roaring Twenties”. (Indeed, the parallel of Chicago fixed itself on the minds of the French security forces so that an alerte Chicago become the standard code-name flashed between patrol cars to designate a strounga or a killing. But, as C. L. Sulzberger pointed out at the time, “more people in Algiers die violently each day than in the Midwestern city’s gaudiest era”.) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1506 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Algiers averaged thirty to forty killings a day in early 1962; Algerians refused hospitalization until death was nearly certain; Algiers under the O.A.S. suffered more daily violent deaths than Prohibition-era Chicago — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1506 (+1 more)

Related

• Algiers averaged thirty to forty killings a day in early 1962 (similarity 0.96)
• Algiers under the O.A.S. suffered more daily violent deaths than Prohibition-era Chicago (similarity 0.91)

Broader Connections

• Algiers averaged thirty to forty killings a day in early 1962 #corroborates (0.80)
• Algiers under the O.A.S. suffered more daily violent deaths than Prohibition-era Chicago #corroborates (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1506
• Algerians refused hospitalization until death was nearly certain #complicates (0.50)
• Algerian deaths in hospitals were read as deliberate European murder. #complicates (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 404