biography
pronunciation:
[dayah]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1894–1955)
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| biography:
| French statesman, born in Guerigny, C France. He was the founder of the Socialist Party of France (1933), which was Fascist in outlook. His pro-Nazi sympathies procured him the post of minister of labour in the Vichy government, and he achieved notoriety by his ruthless deportation of French workers to Germany. He fled to Germany in 1945, and was sentenced to death in absentia, but evaded arrest until his death in Turin. |
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