Paul Teitgen

[6]: 204 [9]: 108 In December 1956 Teitgen received a call from General Jacques Faure proposing a military takeover of Algeria.

Teitgen reported the exchange to the Governor-General of Algeria Robert Lacoste and then to Minister of Defence Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury who was dismissive of the warning.

[6]: 180–1  General Paul Aussaresses later stated that Teitgen's actions against Faure were widely resented by the military.

[10]: 139 On 29 March 1957, Teitgen handed his resignation to Lacoste after seeing signs of torture on prisoners being held at the military holding camps at Béni Messous and Paul Cazelle.

In his deposition Teitgen said that during the Battle of Algiers he had sheltered three Muslim nurses in his home for a month and a half protecting them from both the FLN and the French military.