Question

The Jeanson Network supported the activities of this group, which fought a war on a “second front” from its base in West Germany. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this political party that successfully converted most of the followers of Messali Hadj through its activities in France. This party agreed to the Evian Accords in 1962, establishing its country’s independence.
ANSWER: FLN [or Front de Libération Nationale; or National Liberation Front; or Jabhatu l-Taḥrīri l-Waṭanī]
[10m] In mainland France, the FLN lawyer Gisèle Halimi raised awareness of this issue via her work on behalf of Djamila Boupacha. Henri Alleg publicized this issue with his testimony on the gégène (“zhay-ZHEN”) in his book The Question.
ANSWER: torture [accept descriptions of the French Army’s use of torture in Algeria; accept specific types of torture like waterboarding, electric shocks, or rape; prompt on French interrogation methods]
[10h] On October 17, 1961, this French police chief ordered a massacre of hundreds of participants in an FLN-organized protest. He helped send 1,600 Jews to Drancy as a collaborationist official during the Occupation.
ANSWER: Maurice Papon
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