Philippe de Vomécourt
Philippe Albert de Crevoisier, Baron de Vomécourt (16 January 1902 – 20 December 1964), code names Gauthier and Antoine, was an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization in the Second World War.
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Quotes
[edit]- Had all of us in France meekly, lawfully carried out the orders of the German master, no Frenchman could have ever looked another man in the face. Such submission would have saved the lives of many – some very dear to me – but France would have lost its soul.
- Quoted in Charles Kaiser, "What Americans forget about French resistance", CNN (May 8, 2015)
External links
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Encyclopedic article on Philippe de Vomécourt on Wikipedia
