Desperate pieds noirs rallied to the O.A.S. to reverse their decline

Evidence

By and large the pieds noirs were led to believe and trust in the O.A.S. as an organisation protecting their interests, just as the F.L.N. had fought so successfully for Muslim interests over the past seven years. In their growing despair, and with principles distorted by the isolation in which they had so long existed, perfectly decent citizens turned to the O.A.S. to reverse the trend of history. Much as the German working classes had flocked to the Nazi party in the 1930s out of fear of the Bolshevik bogey, so the poor whites — the petits blancs — in particular now rallied strongly to the O.A.S. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1487

Categorization

• XREF: Directly echoes the F.L.N.’s own ‘fish in water’ support base, linking colonizer and colonized dynamics. — connects to: Desperate petits blancs rallied to the O.A.S. as the F.L.N. had to Muslims; Pied noir militants read self-determination as betrayal of the war dead; Desperation drove the poorer pieds noirs to rally to the O.A.S. as their protector (+2 more)

Related

• Desperate petits blancs rallied to the O.A.S. as the F.L.N. had to Muslims (similarity 0.95)
• Desperation drove the poorer pieds noirs to rally to the O.A.S. as their protector (similarity 0.94)
• Petit blanc poverty drove them into O.A.S. extremism that doomed them (similarity 0.90)
• Pied noir militants read self-determination as betrayal of the war dead (similarity 0.88)
• Most pied-noir OAS supporters sought to stay in Algeria rather than share its ideology (similarity 0.82)
• Pied noir survival in Algeria was untenable even without O.A.S. violence (similarity 0.81)
• Pied noir factions demanded a second front against FLN and Paris alike. (similarity 0.81)
• O.A.S. terror drove out the very pieds noirs it claimed to defend (similarity 0.80)
• The pieds noirs, not Muslims, triggered the events sealing Algérie française’s fate (similarity 0.80)
• Pieds noirs never honestly wanted Algérie française but a protected white-ruled Algeria (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Petit blanc poverty drove them into O.A.S. extremism that doomed them #expands (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1652