Strange and Facinating Facts of WWII

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(pg.462) Henri Petain (1856-1951)
French marshall and head of the Vichy government during World War II. He had been the French ambassador to General Francisco Franco in Spain prior to the war. Petain was put on trial for collaborating with the Germans and was sentenced to death after World War II, but this was commuted to life imprisonment by General Charles de Gaulle because they had served in the same unit in World War I.

(pg.528) Paul Schmidt (1899-1970)
Chief of the German Foreign Office press relations. He joined the Nazi party in 1943 and was the official interpreter for Hitler and Joachim von Ribbentrop. Schmidt was captured in Salzburg by the Americans, only to be released.


(pg.72) Al Bowlly (1898-1941)
Popular singer of the 1930’s. He recorded with a number of bands, including Ray Noble. On April 17, 1941, he was killed by a German bomb while in London.