The Generals Who Seized Algiers and the Conscripts Who Said No
In April nineteen sixty-one, four French generals seized Algiers to overturn national policy on Algeria. Within four days, their rebellion disintegrated when hundreds of thousands of drafted soldiers, listening to handheld transistor radios, systematically refused to follow orders.
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Four retired generals seized Algiers in nineteen sixty-one despite mainland voters backing Algerian self-determination.
Transistor radios let half a million drafted soldiers bypass rebel commanders and hear news from Paris.
De Gaulle invoked emergency powers in a broadcast ordering conscripts to disobey the mutinous generals.
Conscripted clerks and mechanics paralyzed the coup by draining fuel tanks and hiding distributor caps.
Loyal pilots flew more than one hundred planes to mainland France, crushing plans for a Paris airlift.
- 01Intro1 min
- 02The Night the Paratroopers Took Algiers3 min
- 03The Conscript Wall and the Transistor3 min
- 04The Broadcast That Authorized Inaction3 min
- 05The Collapse of the Quartet2 min
- 06Outro1 min
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