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Gustave Marie Maurice Mesny
Born
28 March 1886 Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire, France
Died
19 January 1945(1945-01-19) (aged 58) near Nossen, Nazi Germany
Allegiance
France
Service/branch
French Army
Years of service
-1945
Rank
Divisional general (Major General)
Commands held
5th North African Infantry Division
Battles/wars
Second World War
Western Front
French and Low Countries campaign
Battle of France
Siege of Lille (1940) (POW)
Gustave Marie Maurice Mesny (28 March 1886 – 19 January 1945) was a French Army general in command of the 5th North African Infantry Division who was captured during the Second World War. He was victim of a war crime, controversially killed in retribution for the death of German General Fritz von Brodowski while in French custody.
Gustave Marie Maurice Mesny (28 March 1886 – 19 January 1945) was a French Army general in command of the 5th North African Infantry Division who was...
Mesny is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: GustaveMesny (1886–1945), French Army general and war crime victim of the Second...
murder, by way of a reprisal, of an imprisoned French army general, GustaveMesny. Fritz von Brodowski was the son of Prussian General Fedor von Brodowski...
over Germany, and helped to cover up the 1945 murder of Major-General GustaveMesny, a French officer being held as a prisoner of war. He was held directly...
belligerents and POWs, including the murder of French Général de division GustaveMesny, a POW who was killed in reprisal for the death of Generalleutnant Fritz...
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aircraft. Died: Petar Bojović, 86, Serbian military commander (Pneumonia); GustaveMesny, 58, French Army general (executed by the Nazis) The fourth inauguration...
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responsible for the murder of prisoner of war French general Gustave Marie Maurice Mesny on 19 January 1945 near the village of Nossen. After the war...
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Responsible for the murder of prisoner of war French general Gustave Marie Maurice Mesny on 19 January 1945 near the village of Nossen. Arrested in 1946...
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