Word: mitterrand
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...Mitterrand switched sides and began working for the Resistance in early 1943, a year later than he has claimed in the past, at a time when an Allied victory seemed increasingly inevitable...
...Mitterrand joined the youth branch of the French right-wing movement Croix-de-Feu (Cross of Fire) and was photographed at a 1935 demonstration featuring banners reading DEHORS LES METEQUES (or, roughly, GO HOME, FOREIGNERS...
...Mitterrand had friends among the members of Cagoule, a fascist underground organization that staged political assassinations and attacks on Jews. As Minister of the Interior following the war, Mitterrand tried to get some of the Cagoulards out of jail...
...Francisque, the highest honor accorded by the Vichy regime. He maintained a loyal friendship with Rene Bosquet, the Vichy police chief who -- until his assassination last year -- fought a long legal battle to escape trial for his role in rounding up Jews during the Occupation. According to the book, Mitterrand had Bosquet to dinner as late...
...because Mitterrand is fading from public life, revelations about his % activities during the war have prompted more reminiscences than recriminations. Pean prints a wartime letter he discovered from Henri Frenay, chief of the United Movement of the Resistance. An aide of Charles de Gaulle's Opposition-in-exile had questioned Mitterrand's newfound Resistance fervor, given his previous dedication to Vichy. "France's drama," Frenay wrote back, "is that its honest and impartial men believed, during a certain time, in Marshal Petain and placed their trust in him. They, without a doubt, made a mistake, but it was an innocent...