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Michel Hollard (10 July 1898 – 16 July 1993) was a French engineer and member of the French Resistance who founded the espionage group Réseau AGIR during the Second World War.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 48 relations: Attaché, Épinay-sur-Seine, Bay of Lübeck, Belgium, Bern, Brian Horrocks, Channel Tunnel, Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France), Croix de Guerre 1939–1945, Crusade in Europe, Distinguished Service Order, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Eurostar, Folke Bernadotte, Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Déportation, Forced labour, France, French Resistance, Fresnes Prison, Ganges, Gare du Nord, Google Books, Gorniès, Great Britain, Hérault, Heinrich Himmler, High-speed rail, Huguenots, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Jacques Monod, L'Intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux, Legion of Honour, MI6, Neuengamme concentration camp, Operation Overlord, Parson, Réseau AGIR, Resistance Medal, Royal Air Force, Seine (department), SS Cap Arcona, SS Thielbek (1940), Théodore Monod, The Independent, V-1 flying bomb facilities, Waterboarding, World War I, World War II.

  2. Neuengamme concentration camp survivors

Attaché

In diplomacy, an attaché is a person who is assigned ("to be attached") to the diplomatic or administrative staff of a higher placed person or another service or agency.

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Épinay-sur-Seine

Épinay-sur-Seine (literally Épinay on Seine) is a commune in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, in the northern suburbs of Paris, France.

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Bay of Lübeck

The Bay of Lübeck is a basin in the southwestern Baltic Sea, off the shores of the German states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.

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Bern

Bern, or Berne,Bärn; Bèrna; Berna; Berna.

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Brian Horrocks

Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Gwynne Horrocks, (7 September 1895 – 4 January 1985) was a British Army officer, chiefly remembered as the commander of XXX Corps in Operation Market Garden and other operations during the Second World War. Michel Hollard and Brian Horrocks are commanders of the Legion of Honour and Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France).

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Channel Tunnel

The Channel Tunnel (Tunnel sous la Manche), sometimes referred to informally as the Chunnel, is a undersea railway tunnel, opened in 1994, that connects Folkestone (Kent, England) with Coquelles (Pas-de-Calais, France) beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.

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Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France)

The 1914–1918 (War Cross) was a French military decoration, the first version of the. Michel Hollard and Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France) are Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France).

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Croix de Guerre 1939–1945

The 1939–1945 (English: War Cross 1939–1945) is a French military decoration, a version of the created on 26 September 1939 to honour people who fought with the Allies against the Axis forces at any time during World War II.

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Crusade in Europe

Crusade in Europe is a book of wartime memoirs by General Dwight D. Eisenhower published by Doubleday in 1948.

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Distinguished Service Order

The Distinguished Service Order (DSO) is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, as well as formerly of other parts of the Commonwealth, awarded for operational gallantry for highly successful command and leadership during active operations, typically in actual combat.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), nicknamed Ike, was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. Michel Hollard and Dwight D. Eisenhower are Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France).

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Eurostar

Eurostar is an international high-speed rail service in Western Europe, connecting Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

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Folke Bernadotte

Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (2 January 1895 – 17 September 1948) was a Swedish nobleman and diplomat.

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Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Déportation

The Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Déportation was founded on 17 October 1990 on the initiative of French Prime Minister Michel Rocard and the former Minister of the Interior.

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Forced labour

Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, or violence, including death or other forms of extreme hardship to either themselves or members of their families.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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French Resistance

The French Resistance (La Résistance) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy régime in France during the Second World War.

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Fresnes Prison

Fresnes Prison (French Centre pénitentiaire de Fresnes) is the second largest prison in France, located in the town of Fresnes, Val-de-Marne, south of Paris.

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Ganges

The Ganges (in India: Ganga,; in Bangladesh: Padma). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international river which goes through India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China." is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh. The -long river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

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Gare du Nord

The Gare du Nord (North Station), officially Paris Nord, is one of the seven large mainline railway station termini in Paris, France.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Gorniès

Gorniès (Gornièrs) is a commune in the Hérault département in the Occitanie region in southern France.

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Great Britain

Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.

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Hérault

Hérault (Erau) is a department of the region of Occitania, Southern France.

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Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was a German politician who was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), a leading member of the Nazi Party of Germany, and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany, primarily known for being a main architect of the Holocaust.

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High-speed rail

High-speed rail (HSR) is a type of rail transport network utilizing trains that run significantly faster than those of traditional rail, using an integrated system of specialized rolling stock and dedicated tracks.

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Huguenots

The Huguenots were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism.

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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide.

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Jacques Monod

Jacques Lucien Monod (9 February 1910 – 31 May 1976) was a French biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965, sharing it with François Jacob and André Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis". Michel Hollard and Jacques Monod are French Resistance members.

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L'Intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux

L'Intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux (French: The Intermediate of the Researchers and Curious), abbreviated as ICC, is a monthly French magazine consisting of questions and answers of its readers on various encyclopedic topics.

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Legion of Honour

The National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre royal de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil, and currently comprises five classes.

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MI6

The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6 (Military Intelligence, Section 6), is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligence on foreign nationals in support of its Five Eyes partners.

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Neuengamme concentration camp

Neuengamme was a network of Nazi concentration camps in northern Germany that consisted of the main camp, Neuengamme, and more than 85 satellite camps.

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Operation Overlord

Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II.

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Parson

A parson is an ordained Christian person responsible for a small area, typically a parish.

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Réseau AGIR

The Réseau AGIR (Network for ACTION) was a World War II espionage group founded by French wartime resister Michel Hollard that provided decisive human intelligence on V-1 flying bomb facilities in the North of France.

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Resistance Medal

The Resistance Medal (Médaille de la Résistance) was a decoration bestowed by the French Committee of National Liberation, based in the United Kingdom, during World War II.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.

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Seine (department)

Seine is a former department of France, which encompassed Paris and its immediate suburbs.

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SS Cap Arcona

SS Cap Arcona, named after Cape Arkona on the island of Rügen, was a large German ocean liner, later a ship of the Kriegsmarine, and finally a prison ship.

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SS Thielbek (1940)

Thielbek was a cargo steamship that was built in Germany in 1940, sunk in an air raid in 1945, refloated in 1949 and repaired, and was in service until 1974.

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Théodore Monod

Théodore André Monod (9 April 1902 – 22 November 2000) was a French naturalist, humanist, scholar and explorer.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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V-1 flying bomb facilities

To carry out the planned V-1 "flying bomb" attacks on the United Kingdom, Germany built a number of military installations including launching sites and depots.

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Waterboarding

Waterboarding is a form of torture in which water is poured over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive, causing the person to experience the sensation of drowning.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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See also

Neuengamme concentration camp survivors

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Hollard