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France    Charles de Gaulle    1890-1970

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill,

Charles De Gaulle

and French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny

reviewing the troops in France, 13 November 1944

Photograph:

Mondadori Portfolio/Mondadori/Getty Images

Revealed: Churchill’s unsent letter

that could have changed the course of history

On the eve of D-day,

the wartime British PM drafted a letter

that could have ended De Gaulle’s political career

G

Fri 31 May 2024    07.00 CEST

Last modified on Fri 31 May 2024    15.23 CEST

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/31/
revealed-churchills-unsent-letter-that-could-have-changed-the-course-of-history

French Gen. Charles de Gaulle (L)

talking with his son Philippe

at his Free French Forces HQ in exile.

Location: London, United Kingdom

Date taken: 1941

Photograph: Hans Wild

Life Images

Artist : Franchot

Title:

Le vrai visage de la "France libre" !

Le Général Micro, fourrier des Juifs !

Description:

Français : Affiche antisémite et anti-gaulliste

éditée par l'Institut d'étude des questions juives

en novembre 1941.

Dessin de Franchot.

Date November 1941

Medium lithograph

Dimensions height: 159.1 cm (62.6 in); width: 120.8 cm (47.5 in)

Collection:

Musée Carnavalet Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q640447

Accession number

AFF3370

Source/Photographer:

https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/musee-carnavalet/oeuvres/l
e-vrai-visage-de-la-france-libre-le-general-micro-fourrier-des-juifs

Secondary source: Wikipedia

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
File:Le_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9ral_micro,_fourrier_des_juifs_!.jpg

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/31/
revealed-churchills-unsent-letter-
that-could-have-changed-the-course-of-history

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/11/
france-on-trial-case-of-marshal-petain-julian-jackson-review

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/23/
certain-idea-of-france-charles-de-gaulle-julian-jackson-review

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/aug/07/
general-charles-gaulle-france-fenby

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jun/27/
de-gaulle-france-biography-fenby

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/06/
france-second-word-war-de-gaulle

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2007/apr/29/
greatspeeches

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/11/11/
archives/de-gaulle-rallied-france-in-war-
and-strove-to-lead-her-to-greatness.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1945/05/10/
archives/de-gaulle-summons-french-to-asia-war.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1945/05/09/
archives/broadcast-by-de-gaulle.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1945/02/18/
archives/de-gaulle-goes-ahead-
as-french-war-leader-his-moderation-in-purge.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1944/09/26/
archives/war-until-spring-seen-by-de-gaulle.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/1944/sep/12/
france.secondworldwar

https://www.nytimes.com/1940/07/24/
archives/de-gaulle-says-war-on-nazis-is-resumed-
french-began-to-fight-again.html

La réalisatrice du documentaire

"Ce qu'ils savaient.

Les Alliés face à la Shoah"

explique le silence

de Churchill, Staline,

Roosevelt et de Gaulle.

Le remarquable documentaire

de Virginie Linhart

révèle l'indifférence

générale des Alliés

face à la Shoah.

Le Point.fr - Publié le 26/10/2012 à 18:40

- Modifié le 27/10/2012 à 10:12

http://www.lepoint.fr/culture/
virginie-linhart-le-monde-d-avant-guerre-est-un-monde-antisemite-26-10-2012-
1521550_3.php - broken link

UK

Charles de Gaulle's BBC rallying call to France

Appel du 22 juin    22 June 1940

De Gaulle. L'appel du 18 juin

Video    France Culture    18 June 2020

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUS5LHDkwP0

Il n'y a pas eu d'enregistrement

(audio ou vidéo (sic))

de l'Appel du 18 juin 1940

contrairement à celui du 22 juin 1940,

avec lequel on le confond souvent

http://www.charles-de-gaulle.org/pages/l-homme/dossiers-thematiques/
1940-1944-la-seconde-guerre-mondiale/l-appel-du-18-juin/documents/l-appel-du-22-juin-1940.php - broken link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUS5LHDkwP0

United Kingdom

Charles de Gaulle's BBC rallying call to France
 

Appel du 18 juin

18 June 1940

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/
gaulle_charles_de.shtml

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/18/
charles-de-gaulle-bbc-broadcast  

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/13/
de-gaulle-rallying-cry-almost-silenced

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10339678

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/591468.stm

Harry S. Truman   1884-1972

33rd president of the United States

from 1945 to 1953,

succeeding upon the death

of Franklin D. Roosevelt

after serving as vice president.

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/06/
899593615/hiroshima-atomic-bombing-raising-questions-75-years-later 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/
books/review/unconditional-marc-gallicchio.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/06/
world/asia/did-us-have-to-drop-atomic-bombs-
on-hiroshima-and-nagasaki.html

USA

Franklin Delano Roosevelt   1882-1945

32nd President of the United States   1933-1945

Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt.L

Location: US

Date taken: September 1941

Photograph: Thomas D. Mcavoy

Life Images

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
franklin-delano-roosevelt

 https://www.archives.gov/education/
lessons/fdr-churchill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Franklin_D._Roosevelt

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/09/
books/book-tries-for-balanced-view-on-roosevelt-and-jews.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/books/review/Brinkley-t.html

https://www.fdrlibrary.org/  

https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/january-20/

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/opinion/03smith.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/
great-speeches-franklin-d-roosevelt

https://www.theguardian.com/world/1945/apr/13/
secondworldwar.usa

USA

General Douglas MacArthur   1880-1964

second world war

supreme allied commander

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/
macarthur-three-generations/

 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/oct/29/
macarthur-reel-history

USA

General Dwight David Eisenhower   1890-1969

General Eisenhower talking with American paratroopers

on the evening of June 5, 1944,

as they prepared for the Invasion of Normandy,

Greenham Common, Berkshire

Photograph: Underwood Archives/Getty Images

Revealed: Churchill’s unsent letter

that could have changed the course of history

On the eve of D-day,

the wartime British PM drafted a letter

that could have ended De Gaulle’s political career

G

Fri 31 May 2024    07.00 CEST

Last modified on Fri 31 May 2024    15.23 CEST

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/31/
revealed-churchills-unsent-letter-that-could-have-changed-the-course-of-history

Ike Eisenhower

Lieut. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower (R),

Commander of the European Theater of Operations,

conferring w. his friend & deputy

commander Maj. Gen. Mark Clark,

in his office.

Location: US

Date taken: October 1942

Photograph: Margaret Bourke-White

Life Images

supreme Allied Commander

in Europe in World War Two

and later 34th

President of the United States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Dwight_D._Eisenhower

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/
eisenhower_dwight.shtml 

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
dwight-david-eisenhower 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/
opinion/23colley.html

USA    General Douglas MacArthur    1880-1964

Time Covers - The 40S

Time cover: 08-27-1945 of Gen. Douglas MacArthur.

Date taken: August 27, 1945

Life Images

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/21/
771820324/allies-mark-
75th-anniversary-of-macarthur-arriving-in-the-philippines

https://www.npr.org/2000/06/23/
1075789/general-douglas-macarthur

USA    General George Patton   1885-1945

Gen. George Patton

Date taken: April 1945

Photograph: Margaret Bourke-White

Life Images

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/10/
newsid_3587000/3587283.stm 

United Kingdom

Anthony Eden   1897-1977

In 1935 he became

foreign secretary

at the extraordinarily

early age of 38,

although he resigned

within three years,

in protest

at Neville Chamberlain's

appeasement policy

towards Germany.

While he always had

an awkward relationship

with that other prominent

anti-appeaser,

Winston Churchill,

the latter's elevation

to the premiership in May 1940

restored Eden

to the Foreign Office.

In 1940-1945,

and again in 1951-1955,

Eden was not only

Churchill's foreign secretary,

but also his acknowledged

and uncontested successor

as leader

of the Conservative Party.

However, he grew resentful

at Churchill's refusal to step down

and by the time he finally succeeded

Churchill in April 1955,

he was already suffering

from poor health.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/eden_anthony.shtml

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/
eden_anthony.shtml

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/17/
newsid_3547000/3547151.stm

UK    Winston Churchill    1874-1965

Winston Churchill.

Location: London, United Kingdom

Date taken: 1944

Photograph: Bob Landry

Life Images

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/
winston-churchill

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/591468.stm

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
winston-leonard-spencer-churchill 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/26/britain-
execution-nuremberg-nazi-leaders

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2012/oct/26/
nazi-shooting-nuremberg-international-justice

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/jan/01/
secondworldwar.politics

UK    Arthur Harris    1892-1984

Time Covers - The 40S

Time cover: 06-07-1943 of Sir Arthur T. Harris.

Date taken: June 07, 1943

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=df11bbfec094dc2a

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/
harris_arthur_bomber.shtml 

United Kingdom

Neville Chamberlain   1869-1940
 

Prime Minister   May 1937-May 1940

English PM Neville Chamberlain

waving his hat to unseen crowd

at Oberwiesenfeld Airport

following a diplomatic meeting

w. German leaders. to avoid conflict,

a policy which would become

known as appeasement.

Location: Munich, Germany

Date taken: September 1938

Photograph: Hugo Jaeger

[ Hugo Jaeger was one of Hitler's personal photographers. ]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Jaeger

Life Images

http://www.life.com/image/ugc1000272/in-gallery/27022

https://www.theguardian.com/world/
neville-chamberlain 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/14/
appeasing-hitler-chamberlain-churchill-road-to-war-tim-bouverie-review

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/05/
appeasing-hitler-chamberlain-churchill-road-to-war-tim-bouverie-review

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/20/
chamberlain-hitler-appeasement-munich-agreement-archive-1938

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/18/
neville-chamberlain-diary-outbreak-exhibition

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/06/
second-world-war-declaration-chamberlain

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/aug/23/
history.secondworldwar

http://digital.guardian.co.uk/guardian/2007/05/08/
pages/ber28.shtml

Soviet Union    Joseph Stalin    1878-1953

Russia

Huge concrete statue of Stalin

wearing a belted Army greatcoat

standing on the grounds

of the Agricultural Exhibition.

Location: Moscow, Russia

Date taken: August 1941

Photograph: Margaret Bourke-White

Life Images

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/
joseph-stalin-national-hero-or-cold-blooded-murderer/zhv747h

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
joseph-stalin

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/28/
1139402378/ukraine-holodomor-famine-stalin-parallels-putin-russia-war

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-idees/080422/
de-katyn-poutine

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/
world/europe/russia-historian-stalin-mass-graves.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/29/
the-remains-of-stalin-gulag-railroad-soviet-union-a-photo-essay

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/18/
last-days-of-stalin-joshua-rubinstein-review

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jul/24/
the-day-i-met-joseph-stalin-brush-with-greatness-berlin

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/oct/11/
russian-children-books-illustration-stalin

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/29/
stalin-my-father

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/29/
stalin-daughter-svetlana-peters-dies

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/
specials/holloway-stalin.html

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