Word: ingolstadt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gaulle and Tukhachevsky first met during World War I. Both were young officers. Both were war prisoners in Germany. Both were interned at Ingolstadt, the Alcatraz of German prison camps. Both the short, ebullient Russian and the tall, solemn Frenchman were advocates of the new ideas of military mechanization. In their conversations each influenced the other...
...Paris in 1936. De Gaulle was then a lieutenant colonel, Tukhachevsky the youngest (43) marshal in the Red Army and Vice Commissar for Defense. He had come to Paris to complete the Franco-Soviet mutual assistance treaty. At a gay reunion dinner he talked over old times at Ingolstadt with De Gaulle and other French Army...