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 to the broader psychological literature on perpetrator trauma and moral injury in soldiers.

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