Pied noir militants read self-determination as betrayal of the war dead

Evidence

The sentiments of the pied noir towards metropolitan France (for so many not their mother country at all) were compounded of resentment, love, disdain and an inferiority complex with the undertones of superiority that so often accompany it. … “Where is our promised land?” one of the rebel generals of 1961, Edmond Jouhaud, was to demand: “I think we have paid for the right to be French, by the blood that we shed from 1914 to 1918 and from 1939 to 1945.” It was an argument with which Britons were made familiar early in the Rhodesian crisis. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 158 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Army and pieds noirs formed a symbiosis masking divergent, fatal objectives; Pied noir loyalty to France rested on war service they felt earned full Frenchness — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 158; Desperate pieds noirs rallied to the O.A.S. to reverse their decline — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1487 (+1 more)

Related

• Pied noir loyalty to France rested on war service they felt earned full Frenchness (similarity 0.91)
• Desperation drove the poorer pieds noirs to rally to the O.A.S. as their protector (similarity 0.91)
• Desperate pieds noirs rallied to the O.A.S. to reverse their decline (similarity 0.88)
• Desperate petits blancs rallied to the O.A.S. as the F.L.N. had to Muslims (similarity 0.86)
• Pied noirs justified Frenchness by blood shed in two world wars (similarity 0.85)
• Petit blanc poverty drove them into O.A.S. extremism that doomed them (similarity 0.83)
• Most pied-noir OAS supporters sought to stay in Algeria rather than share its ideology (similarity 0.83)
• The O.A.S. extorted pieds noirs with surveillance and threats (similarity 0.82)
• Pied noir soldiers balked at shooting Muslim demonstrators to save Algérie française (similarity 0.81)
• Pied noir survival in Algeria was untenable even without O.A.S. violence (similarity 0.81)
• Pieds noirs never honestly wanted Algérie française but a protected white-ruled Algeria (similarity 0.81)
• The pieds noirs, not Muslims, triggered the events sealing Algérie française’s fate (similarity 0.80)
• O.A.S. terror drove out the very pieds noirs it claimed to defend (similarity 0.80)
• Pied noir civilians enthusiastically participated in killing O.A.S. targets directly (similarity 0.80)
• The pied noir lobby immediately demanded violent suppression of the revolt (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Pied noir loyalty to France rested on war service they felt earned full Frenchness #corroborates (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 158
• Desperate pieds noirs rallied to the O.A.S. to reverse their decline #expands (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1487
• Desperation drove the poorer pieds noirs to rally to the O.A.S. as their protector #expands (0.60)