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    Charles Huntziger (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl œ̃tsiʒe]; 25 June 1880 – 11 November 1941) was a French Army general during World War I and World War II...
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    while those on the French side held lower ranks, including general Charles Huntziger. Following the decisive German victory in the Battle of France (10...
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    drove to Arcis-sur-Aube and offered General Charles Huntziger Weygand's job as Commander-in-Chief. Huntziger accepted in principle, but de Gaulle was unable...
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    the delivery of the necessary materials. On 11 April 1940, General Charles Huntziger asked for another four divisions to work on the defences but was refused...
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    terms, France would retain the option to continue to fight. General Charles Huntziger, who headed the French armistice delegation, was told to break off...
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    Commander-in-Chief of the Land Forces (until November 1941): General Charles Huntziger Secretary of State for Aviation: General Jean Bergeret [fr; it; nl;...
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  • de Pellepoix Marcel Déat Charles du Paty de Clam Pierre-Étienne Flandin Philippe Henriot Gaston Henry-Haye Charles Huntziger Pierre Laval Jean Leguay...
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    Battle of France, Wilhelm Keitel, representing Nazi Germany, and Charles Huntziger, representing Pétain's government, signed an armistice at the Rethondes...
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  • Hunziker (section Huntziger)
    David Huntsinger, American pianist, composer, arranger, and producer Charles Huntziger (1880–1941), French general who signed the French-German Armistice...
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    France" after the capital moved to Vichy in early July.: 139–40  General Charles Noguès, Commander-in-Chief of French forces in North Africa, was dismayed...
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  • border areas 1940–1942, almost all Rhône left-bank territory 1942-1943. Charles de Gaulle, the main leader. Free France (La France Libre), the provisional...
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    the Second World War. The holders include: The widow of the général Charles Huntziger was the first to receive the order of the francisque; The Lumière...
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    eventually able to start a counteroffensive. However, he disagreed with Charles de Gaulle's arguments for a centralised armour force on the grounds that...
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    Thus on 22 June 1940 Generals Wilhelm Keitel for Nazi Germany and Charles Huntziger for France signed an armistice which outlined in Article 2 the creation...
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    Vichy to administer unoccupied French territory. On 18 June French General Charles De Gaulle broadcast an appeal over the radio to his compatriots abroad...
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    Papon was personally awarded the Legion of Honour by French President Charles de Gaulle, whose government had been struggling with the FLN insurgency...
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  • 7th Pz Div) 8th Infantry Division Second Army – Général d'armée Charles Huntziger Directly reporting: (dispositions north to south) 5th Light Cavalry...
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    de Pellepoix Marcel Déat Charles du Paty de Clam Pierre-Étienne Flandin Philippe Henriot Gaston Henry-Haye Charles Huntziger Pierre Laval Jean Leguay...
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    de Pellepoix Marcel Déat Charles du Paty de Clam Pierre-Étienne Flandin Philippe Henriot Gaston Henry-Haye Charles Huntziger Pierre Laval Jean Leguay...
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  • colony, and be replaced by a pro-Allied Free French one under General Charles de Gaulle. At the beginning of World War II, the French fleet in the Mediterranean...
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    6:36 p.m. (French time), by General Keitel for Germany and General Charles Huntziger for France and came into effect at 12:35 a.m. on 25 June, once the...
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    Arcis-sur-Aube and offered General Charles Huntziger (Commander of the Central Army Group) Weygand's job as Commander-in-Chief. Huntziger accepted in principle (although...
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    de Pellepoix Marcel Déat Charles du Paty de Clam Pierre-Étienne Flandin Philippe Henriot Gaston Henry-Haye Charles Huntziger Pierre Laval Jean Leguay...
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    returned to France, where he was arrested by the French government under Charles de Gaulle. After what has been described as a flawed trial, much like those...
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  • recruitment of specific ethnic and religious minority groups. General Charles Huntziger, the French military commander in Syria, stated in 1935: "we mustn't...
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    de Pellepoix Marcel Déat Charles du Paty de Clam Pierre-Étienne Flandin Philippe Henriot Gaston Henry-Haye Charles Huntziger Pierre Laval Jean Leguay...
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    elements of the French 5th Cavalry Division, dispatched by General Charles Huntziger from the French 2nd Army, which had a significant tank strength. The...
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    in Vichy-controlled Syria. The protocols remained unratified, but Charles Huntziger, the Vichy Minister of War, sent orders to Henri Dentz, the High Commissioner...
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    Resistance to Pétain and the armistice began even before it was signed, with Charles de Gaulle's appeal of 18 June. As a result, a de facto government-in-exile...
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  • Baucheron de Boissoudy (22 December 1918 – 11 February 1919) General Charles Huntziger (2 September 1939 – 5 June 1940) General Henry Freydenberg (5 June...
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