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De Gaulle during World War II; he typically wore the uniform of a Brigade general Pétain meeting Hitler on 24 October 1940. After Liberation, the Provisional Government of the French Republic (GPRF) led by Charles de Gaulle was faced with rebuilding the country and removing traitors, criminals and collaborators from office.
On 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed when 643 civilians, including non-combatant men, women, and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company as collective punishment for Resistance activity in the area including the capture and subsequent execution of a close friend of Waffen-SS ...
The Tulle massacre was the roundup and summary execution of civilians in the French town of Tulle by the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich in June 1944, three days after the D-Day landings in World War II. After a successful offensive by the French Resistance group Francs-tireur on 7 and 8 June 1944, the arrival of Das Reich troops forced the ...
Mikhail Bulanov - Guilty of treason and war crimes, executed on 19 December 1943. Sergei Bunyachenko - Guilty of treason, executed on 2 August 1946. Semyon Bychkov - Guilty of treason, executed on 4 November 1946. Herberts Cukurs - Assassinated by Mossad on 23 February 1965. Feodor Fedorenko - Guilty of war crimes, executed on 28 July 1987.
44 French civilians massacred by Kriegsmarine personnel. [43] [44] [45] First Saint-Julien massacre: 9 August 1944: Saint-Julien-de-Crempse: 17 German Army: 17 villagers executed by German troops as reprisal for French resistance activity [46] Saint-Genis-Laval massacre: 20 August 1944: Saint-Genis-Laval: 120 Sicherheitspolizei Milice
This is a list of convicted war criminals found guilty of war crimes under the rules of warfare as defined by the World War II Nuremberg Trials (as well as by earlier agreements established by the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907, the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, and the Geneva Conventions of 1929 and 1949).
An ISIS-offshoot based in Algeria has executed a French hostage after previously threatening to kill him over France's participation in airstrikes over Iraq. Herve Gourdel, 55, was captured Sunday ...
The last of those executed by firing squad was OAS member Lt. Colonel Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry, who was an organizer of the infamous assassination attempt on de Gaulle in 1962. No executions took place during two-term acting President Alain Poher, neither in 1969 following De Gaulle's resignation, nor in 1974 following Pompidou's death.