It was not only public revelations that brought the "gangrene" of torture home to France; the young men who had been forced to administer it brought it back in their own persons, profoundly—and often permanently—marked by their experiences.

XREF: Connects broadly to themes of moral judgment shaped by proximity versus detachment. FICTION: The Algerian prison 'suicides' are a potent plot engine for morally ambiguous historical fiction.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 730