Resistance members staged public obedience to protect themselves

Evidence

When he found, one day, that they had taken the obligatory portrait of Marshal Pétain down from the wall, he ordered them to put it back, not from any collaborationist sentiment but to protect their safety. Everyday life required constantly negotiating this balance between submission and resistance, as well as between ordinary activity and the extraordinary underlying reality. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 470

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the moral dualism thread in Things Fall Apart — public compliance masking private sentiment. — connects to: Military obedience can mask a private rebellion against authority itself — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 258; Solidarity degenerates into fear-driven obedience when followers forfeit independent judgment; Resistance fighters endured torture and chose death over betraying their comrades — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1639

Broader Connections

• Solidarity degenerates into fear-driven obedience when followers forfeit independent judgment #complicates (0.73)
• Military obedience can mask a private rebellion against authority itself #corroborates (0.72) — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 258