More soldiers cited French atrocities than war hardship as their worst Algerian experience

Evidence

Vidal-Naquet also notes a poll conducted in 1960 by La Vie Catholique in which, in answer to the question “what has been the reader’s worst experience” in Algeria, 126 referred to the hardships of war as such; whereas 132 specified atrocities committed by the French, or acts of torture heard about, witnessed, or participated in; against only six who had cited their own wounds. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 732

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Sakiet’s fallout made the Algerian army feel betrayed by Paris.; French troops looted and destroyed Algerian villages with gratuitous joy — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 520; French soldiers who saw Belsen recognized the same moral degradation in Algeria’s torture — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 729

Related

• French troops looted and destroyed Algerian villages with gratuitous joy (similarity 0.83)
• French soldiers who saw Belsen recognized the same moral degradation in Algeria’s torture (similarity 0.81)
• Suez’s humiliating withdrawal devastated returning French troops’ morale in Algeria (similarity 0.81)
• Torture more than any single factor caused France’s Algerian defeat (similarity 0.78)
• Torture’s Nazi echoes caused France’s defeat despite its military supremacy (similarity 0.78)