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Charles de Gaulle

De Gaulle appointed government minister

Sunday Jun 5, 1938
France

On 5 June, the day the Germans began the second phase of their offensive (Fall Rot), Prime Minister Paul Reynaud appointed de Gaulle a government minister, as Under-Secretary of State for National Defence and War, with particular responsibility for coordination with the British.


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