Vidal-Naquet also notes a poll conducted in 1960 by La Vie Catholique in which, in answer to the question “what has been the reader’s worst experience” in Algeria, 126 referred to the hardships of war as such; whereas 132 specified atrocities committed by the French, or acts of torture heard about, witnessed, or participated in; against only six who had cited their own wounds.

XREF: This connects to the wider theme of French complicity in torture during the Algerian War and how soldiers themselves registered moral injury over physical harm.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 732