O.A.S. terror drove out the very pieds noirs it claimed to defend

Evidence

But, not for the first time, the O.A.S. was proved to be defeating its own ends; principally because of the atmosphere of terror created by the O.A.S., and despite its threats of “sanctions”, since the beginning of April no less than one hundred thousand pieds noirs had already left the country — or one in ten of the total European population. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1614 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The pied noirs’ strategy of armed confrontation was built on fatal miscalculations.; The O.A.S. extorted pieds noirs with surveillance and threats; O.A.S. murders in late 1961 were indiscriminate and grossly exceeded their intended targets (+7 more)

Related

• The O.A.S. terror campaign backfired and sped French withdrawal from Algeria. (similarity 0.91)
• O.A.S. terrorism accelerated the very European exodus it aimed to prevent (similarity 0.89)
• OAS terror backfired by accelerating rather than wrecking the peace negotiations. (similarity 0.88)
• The O.A.S. extorted pieds noirs with surveillance and threats (similarity 0.88)
• OAS violence deliberately destroyed the communities it claimed to defend (similarity 0.85)
• Pied noir survival in Algeria was untenable even without O.A.S. violence (similarity 0.84)
• Desperation drove the poorer pieds noirs to rally to the O.A.S. as their protector (similarity 0.84)
• O.A.S. murders in late 1961 were indiscriminate and grossly exceeded their intended targets (similarity 0.81)
• The pied noir exodus far outpaced French government predictions (similarity 0.81)
• Pied noir militants read self-determination as betrayal of the war dead (similarity 0.80)
• The O.A.S. continued assassinating de Gaulle long after Algeria fell. (similarity 0.80)
• Desperate pieds noirs rallied to the O.A.S. to reverse their decline (similarity 0.80)
• Most pied-noir OAS supporters sought to stay in Algeria rather than share its ideology (similarity 0.80)
• Petit blanc poverty drove them into O.A.S. extremism that doomed them (similarity 0.79)
• The pieds noirs, not Muslims, triggered the events sealing Algérie française’s fate (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• O.A.S. terrorism accelerated the very European exodus it aimed to prevent #corroborates (0.90) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1614
• OAS violence deliberately destroyed the communities it claimed to defend #expands (0.85)
• The O.A.S. terror campaign backfired and sped French withdrawal from Algeria. #corroborates (0.75)
• Pied noir civilians enthusiastically participated in killing O.A.S. targets directly #contradicts (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1504