The GPRA regarded 1962 as the war’s most dangerous phase due to the OAS.

Evidence

In Oran a new army commander, an ex-trooper called General Katz, had assumed personal control of the battle. After the killing of his Deuxième Bureau chief, Katz installed himself in the prefecture, where the windows had been shot out, put his mattress on the floor to be out of the field of snipers’ fire, and read Saint-Simon by night to distract himself from the incessant shooting and bombing outside. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1605 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The OAS threatened foreign journalists into abandoning Algiers; General Katz fought the OAS from within his own besieged prefecture in Oran. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1605; Algeria’s post-independence civil conflict replicated both the OAS bombings and French counter-terror patterns — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1695 (+6 more)

Related

• Defeated OAS destroyed Algeria’s French-built infrastructure and institutions (similarity 0.84)
• General Katz fought the OAS from within his own besieged prefecture in Oran. (similarity 0.83)
• Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war (similarity 0.81)
• The OAS executed six educators including writer Mouloud Feraoun (similarity 0.80)
• The OAS staged the largest bank heist in history to that date in Oran. (similarity 0.80)
• The OAS escalated to total war against French authority to force general paralysis (similarity 0.79)
• OAS believed attacking French Communists would trap de Gaulle politically, but miscalculated. (similarity 0.79)
• Moderate third-force politics died squeezed between FLN and OAS (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The OAS escalated to total war against French authority to force general paralysis #expands (0.60)
• The OAS threatened foreign journalists into abandoning Algiers #expands (0.55)
• General Katz fought the OAS from within his own besieged prefecture in Oran. #corroborates (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1605
• Moderate third-force politics died squeezed between FLN and OAS #corroborates (0.45)
• The OAS executed six educators including writer Mouloud Feraoun #exemplifies (0.45)
• Defeated OAS destroyed Algeria’s French-built infrastructure and institutions #expands (0.40)
• The OAS staged the largest bank heist in history to that date in Oran. #exemplifies (0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1606
• The sacrificial barbouzes served as a decoy that exposed the OAS #corroborates (0.40)
• Algeria’s post-independence civil conflict replicated both the OAS bombings and French counter-terror patterns #expands (0.35) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1695