Jacques Doriot
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| Jacques Doriot | |
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| Historical Figure | |
| Timeline: | OTL |
| Nationality: | France |
| Date of Birth: | 1898 |
| Date of Death: | 1945 |
| Cause of Death: | Killed during an Allied Forces air raid |
| Occupation: | Politician, Soldier |
| Affiliations: | French Communist Party; Parti Populaire Français (1936 on) |
| Timeline: | Worldwar |
| Occupation: | President of the Fourth Republic of France |
| Timeline: | "Uncle Alf" |
Jacques Doriot (1898-1945) was a French politician before and during World War II. Although a devout Communist in his early years, he grew embittered with his Party, and became a Fascist. He supported Germany during World War II, going so far as to form a French unit of the Wehrmacht. He was killed during an Allied air raid in 1945.
[edit] Jacques Doriot in Worldwar
Jacques Doriot was a socialist who became a fascist prior to World War II. He collaborated with the Germans when France was part of the Greater German Reich from 1940 to 1965. When the Fourth Republic was established after the Race-German War of 1965, he became President of France. He worked closely with France's new ally, the Race. As Vyacheslav Molotov put it, "He collaborated with the Germans so long and so well he had no trouble collaborating with the Lizards when they became the leading foreigners in France."
Doriot was the only human head of state who did not attend American President Earl Warren's state funeral in Little Rock in 1966.
[edit] Jacques Doriot in "Uncle Alf"
Jacques Doriot had become such a prolific activist and agitator against Imperial Germany that in 1929, the Feldgendarmerie sent Feldwebel Adolf Hitler to Lille to capture Doriot. Despite the inadequecies of the local German forces, Hitler succeeded in apprehending Doriot.
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