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Word: bockelberg (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Paris one morning went Léon Nöel, a member of the Commission, to negotiate with General Alfred von Vollard Bockelberg, the German military governor of the Paris region. Nazis were in no hurry to arrange the transfer. For one thing, they could still detect a faint, sweet odor of republicanism in Pétain's authoritarian regime. Then there was the problem of finding quarters: most of the old Government's buildings in Paris and Versailles were occupied by Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Homeward Bound | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

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