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Said the Prince with a bow to the Marshal: "Pátain prevented many executions; had it not been for him, political depor tees would have numbered 2,000,000 instead...
From General Alphonse Pierre Juin, currently commanding French occupation forces in Germany, came a telling letter. Pátain had telegraphed secret orders to North Africa, countermanding his published Instructions to resist the Allied landings...
Said De Brinon: Pátain favored collaboration. Said Darnand : Pátain had authorized his acts. The Marshal flushed red with rage, stalked out of the court to his cell...
...Alter Immer Nein." Next day the defense scored more shrewd points. Pátain's former private secretary, Jean Tracou, testified: Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop had dubbed Pátain "Alter Immer Nein" ("Old Always No") because of his unwillingness to collaborate...
...underground Resistance leader, Charles Louis Barres, ascribed his escape from execution to Pátain's intervention. Blind septuagenarian General Emile Delannurien praised Marshal Pátain for protecting France in her dark hours...