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Dutourd soon found himself imprisoned in a vast aircraft hangar, along with 8,000 other Frenchmen who lolled about admiring the conquering Germans for their elegance, and green with envy of their boots. (In a devastating aside, Dutourd suggests that the money poured into the Maginot Line might better have been spent on boots for the French army.) It was assumed that the war was nearly over, that the Germans would send the prisoners home on free railroad passes. But Dutourd got away. He carries modesty about his three-year stint with the Resistance to the point of devoting half...
Died. Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, 79, brilliant, Bavarian-born boss of the German army that shattered France's Maginot Line in 1940, sometime (1941-42) commander of the Nazi forces on Russia's northern front, coruscant author (Defense, Chronicle of the Leeb Family); after long illness; in Augsburg, Germany. One of Hitler's most trusted theoreticians, Aristocrat Leeb finally broke with the Fuhrer over Russian campaign strategy, retired...
...Marshall Plan, at least when it was first announced, was not proposed to the American people as simply another exercise in Maginot wall-building. On the contrary, it was presented as a genuine attempt to treat the world we live in, or at least the nations of the Atlantic Basin which are historically and culturally closest to us, as a community...
Died. Norman Kerry, 60, dashing hero of silent films (The Phantom of the Opera, The Hunchback of Notre Dame); of a liver ailment; in Los Angeles. In 1939 Kerry enlisted in the French Foreign Legion under the pseudonym Heinrich van der Kerry of Rotterdam, saw action on the Maginot Line, returned to the U.S. in 1941 after the fall of France...
World War II: Commanded a Moroccan troop in France, was wounded when the Germans broke the Maginot line. De Latour escaped to North Africa, raised levies among the Berber tribes, led them in Allied landings on Corsica and Elba. In 1946 he was promoted to brigadier general...