Pied noir surgeons aided the F.L.N. out of Algerian national identity
Evidence
In May 1955 Chaulet carried out the first secret operation on a rebel wounded painfully in the knee and brought in by Ouamrane. He was Azedine, who later emerged as an important F.L.N. leader in the last stages of the war. To Abane, who the following year became an intimate friend of both Chaulet and his attractive wife, the doctor explained: “We are not coming to the aid of the F.L.N. We are Algerians like you. Our soil, our country, is Algeria. We shall defend it with you. We are of the F.L.N.” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 428
Categorization
- XREF: Amplifies the theme that the ‘Algerian’ identity embraced Europeans, paralleling Abbas’s ‘Algeria is Algerian.’ — connects to: European doctors smuggled antibiotics and ether to the Algerian resistance daily; Witnessing torture pushed a European medical family to collaborate with the F.L.N.; European doctors secretly trained A.L.N. medical corpsmen in Algeria — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 536 (+3 more)
Related
- Witnessing torture pushed a European medical family to collaborate with the F.L.N. (similarity 0.86)
- European doctors smuggled antibiotics and ether to the Algerian resistance daily (similarity 0.86)
- European doctors secretly trained A.L.N. medical corpsmen in Algeria (similarity 0.84)
- Pied noir loyalty to France rested on war service they felt earned full Frenchness (similarity 0.81)
- European settlers actively aided the F.L.N. and died for the Algerian cause (similarity 0.79)
- Algerian revolutionaries split between moderates and hard-liners over the pied noir presence (similarity 0.79)
- Pied noir factions demanded a second front against FLN and Paris alike. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Algerian revolutionaries split between moderates and hard-liners over the pied noir presence
#corroborates(0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1435 - Nearly 1.4 million pieds noirs resettled in France after Algerian independence
#expands(0.30) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1620