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    Joseph Darnand (19 March 1897 – 10 October 1945) was a French collaborator with Nazi Germany during World War II. A decorated soldier in the French Army...
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  • Msgr. Joseph Darnand, S.M., D.D., Vicar Apostolic of the Navigators' Archipelago, was born in Beny, Ain, France on December 31, 1879. He professed the...
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    although its chief of operations and de facto leader was Secretary General Joseph Darnand. The Milice participated in summary executions and assassinations, helping...
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    Germany's yoke, than to have a republican government. Others, like Joseph Darnand, were strong anti-Semites and overt Nazi sympathizers. A number of these...
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    "Legionary Order Service") was a collaborationist militia created by Joseph Darnand, a far right veteran from the First World War. Too radical even for...
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    Vichy officials such as Fernand de Brinon as president, along with Joseph Darnand, Jean Luchaire, Eugène Bridoux, and Marcel Déat. On 7 September 1944...
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    Only 791 executions were carried out, including those of Pierre Laval, Joseph Darnand, and the journalist Robert Brasillach; far more common was dégradation...
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    newly created Milice, but its operational leader was Secretary General Joseph Darnand. In a speech broadcast during the Normandy landings in June 1944, Laval...
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    of Joseph Darnand, who, along with German forces, led a campaign of repression against the French resistance ("Maquis"). Pétain admitted Darnand into...
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    Armed Forces of the Occupation.[clarification needed] 1 January 1944, Joseph Darnand is named Secretary-General for Maintaining Order. 6 June 1944, Allies...
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  • anti-Semitic and fascist pamphlets supporting Vichy France Cinq-Mars Joseph Darnand, for leading the Vichy French Milice. Émile Dewoitine, aviation industrialist...
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    Green ticket roundup Groupe mobile de réserve Law on the status of Jews Joseph Darnand Milice René Bousquet Special Brigades Vel' d'Hiv Roundup Vichy anti-Jewish...
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    the Milice (militia), officially led by Pierre Laval, but operated by Joseph Darnand to combat the Resistance. This group worked alongside German forces...
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  • Paris Siegfried Line campaign Sigmaringen enclave Fernand de Brinon Joseph Darnand Jean Luchaire Eugène Bridoux Marcel Déat Aftermath & Impact Liberation...
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    Retrieved 27 February 2007. Jennings 2015, p. 44. Hasey, John; Dinneen, Joseph (2017). Yankee Fighter: the Story of an American in the Free French Legion...
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    was established at Sigmaringen. One of his most notorious members was Joseph Darnand, hero of First World War and who, because of his deep admiration for...
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    Siegfried Line. Future Vichy collaborationist, Anti-Bolshevik and SS Major Joseph Darnand was one of the more famous participants in these commando actions. In...
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    in the Milice, a paramilitary militia established by Sturmbannführer Joseph Darnand that, along with the Gestapo, hunted the Resistance were made prisoners...
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    Gestapo and the Milice, the French paramilitary organization led by Joseph Darnand, in violently rounding up Jews for deportation to concentration camps...
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    populaire (RNP), Jacques Doriot's Parti Populaire Français (PPF), Joseph Darnand's Service d'ordre légionnaire (SOL) militia, Marcel Bucard's Mouvement...
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  • Paris Siegfried Line campaign Sigmaringen enclave Fernand de Brinon Joseph Darnand Jean Luchaire Eugène Bridoux Marcel Déat Aftermath & Impact Liberation...
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    archives, Bousquet resigned on 31 December 1943 and was replaced by Joseph Darnand, the head of the Milice. Put in the reserve of the civil corps, Bousquet...
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    Vichy officials such as Fernand de Brinon as president, along with Joseph Darnand, Jean Luchaire, Eugène Bridoux and Marcel Déat. On 7 September 1944...
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  • administration with unreservedly pro-Nazi leaders such as Marcel Déat, Joseph Darnand and Jacques Doriot, who were permitted to operate, publish and criticise...
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    executed. René Bousquet was the deputy head of the Vichy police force. Joseph Darnand was the commander of the paramilitary French Militia. A pro-Nazi leader...
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    Weygand was eventually acquitted. Three Vichy leaders were executed. Joseph Darnand, who became an SS officer and led the Milice paramilitaries who hunted...
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  • members of the French Resistance and the maquis. Its commander was Joseph Darnand, a veteran of the Battle of France and volunteer brigade; he took an...
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    Nationalist Party (1987–1999) Social Bastion (2017–2019) Édouard Drumont Joseph Darnand Jean-Marie Le Pen Marcel Bucard Charles de Gaulle Philippe Leclerc de...
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    bombed cities. In the words of Secretary General of the French Militia, Joseph Darnand in his keynote address January 30, 1943, the Franc-Garde should be "technically...
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    Paris Siegfried Line campaign Sigmaringen enclave Fernand de Brinon Joseph Darnand Jean Luchaire Eugène Bridoux Marcel Déat Aftermath & Impact Liberation...
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