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Torture in the Algerian War
- South Central Review
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 24, Number 1, Spring 2007
- pp. 18-26
- 10.1353/scr.2007.0018
- Article
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"Torture in the Algerian War": Patrick Rotman's book and TV program L'ennemi intime (2002) serves as a starting point for an analysis of the conditions in which ordinary men become torturers. These conditions include the lack of recognition for oneself, the feeling of total power aver another human being and the extreme circumstances of war.