Person1890 – 1970
Charles de Gaulle
French general who refused the 1940 surrender and led Free France from London; later president of the Fifth Republic (1959–1969)
Where they went
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German armour broke through the Ardennes and defeated France in six weeks; the British escaped by sea from Dunkirk and France signed an armistice.
People who appear alongside
- Adolf Hitler1889 – 1945
Nazi leader and Führer of Germany (1934–1945) who started the Second World War and perpetrated the Holocaust; he killed himself as Berlin fell
Themes this person appears in
- World War II1939 – 1945
From the invasion of Poland to the surrender of Japan — the largest war in human history, across Europe, Asia and the Pacific