Can Algeria Turn France Fascist?

Or something suitably like it, of course.

One thing that has occurred to me history is how similar the French officers in Algeria were to the Japanese officers in the 1930s. Assassinations, torture, rape, terror (it's been estimated 800,000 Algerian civilians died).

(And in the 1930s Blum was the target of several assassination attempts, although the circumstances are different).

Although the fate of the Nazis and Mussolini are a cautionary tale, is it possible for officers to seize control of France in the 1950s or 1960s. Or is it possible in a world without World War II?
 
Or something suitably like it, of course.

One thing that has occurred to me history is how similar the French officers in Algeria were to the Japanese officers in the 1930s. Assassinations, torture, rape, terror (it's been estimated 800,000 Algerian civilians died).

(And in the 1930s Blum was the target of several assassination attempts, although the circumstances are different).

Although the fate of the Nazis and Mussolini are a cautionary tale, is it possible for officers to seize control of France in the 1950s or 1960s. Or is it possible in a world without World War II?

Heck, it almost did OTL; and it was only De Gaulle's political clout (and abundance of about-faces) who prevented that.
 
The question I ask is this, and it's taken from an archaeogeek post.

Will the Metropolitan army stand for a coup launched by officers in colonial units?
 
The police during the Paris riots in 1961 which were over Algeria certainly acted in a facist manner including drowning some protesters in the Seine!
 
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