🥷
💡
💡 Fun Facts
💡

of French Neo-Socialist, Marcel Déat. In May of 1939 he wrote Why Die for Danzig (Mourir pour Dantzig?) urging France to appease Hitler by surrendering to his ultimatum for Danzig. Déat would later act as a collaborator with Vichy France.

•1 min read


Fun Fact: of French Neo-Socialist, Marcel Déat. In May of 1939 he wrote ‘Why Die for Danzig’ (Mourir pour Dantzig?) urging France to appease Hitler by surrendering to his ultimatum for Danzig. Déat would later act as a collaborator with Vichy France.

Source favicon

Source

en.wikipedia.org

Share this fascinating fact! 🥷

Share on XDiscover more facts

💡More Fun Facts

Keep exploring and learning

Philippe Pétain, the commander of the French army from 1917 until 1940, was made prime minister a few days before France fell in 1940. Once Vichy France was created, he became head of state and collaborated with the Axis. After WWII, he was spared death because of his WWI service to the country.

Read →

of French President Paul Deschanel, who fell out of the window of his sleeping compartment. He was discovered wandering about in the dark, in his pyjamas, claiming to be the President of France, in 1920.

Read →

that a pigeon saved nearly 200 lives. In a WWI battle, a US battalion trapped behind enemy lines sent a carrier pigeon named Cher Ami. Shot by German snipers and heavily wounded, he competed his mission, saving the soldiers, and later received the Croix de Guerre, France s highest military honor

Read →

The second officer of the Titanic (Charles Lightoller), who survived by swimming from the sinking ship to a capsized raft, later in life sailed his civilian craft to Dunkirk (France) and saved/evacuated about 130 people in WW2.

Read →

T.E. Lawrence, also known as Lawrence of Arabia died in a motorcycle accident in 1935. Lawrence had a sinister reputation in France during his lifetime and even today as an implacable enemy of France , the man who was constantly stirring up the Syrians to rebel against French rule in the 1920s.

Read →

In 1941, the Germans showed great respect for Captain Douglas Bader by permitting the British RAF to parachute a prosthetic leg to a Luftwaffe base in France. This was after Bader had been taken prisoner after bailing out of his plane with only one of his two prosthetic legs, the other having become stuck in his damaged aircraft.

Read →
Explore All Fun Facts