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| | General Charles Delestraint - a prisoner at Natzweiler-Struthof |
 | | In 1942, Delestraint was recruited by the French resistance; he secretly visited his old friend Charles de Gaulle in London and was given the job of commanding the French Armée Secret, which had been created on the initiative of Jean Moulin. |
 | | On June 9, 1943 Delestraint was arrested by the Gestapo. |
 | | Emile Schwarzfeld, who had been picked to be Delestraint's successor as the leader of the French Secret Army in case he was captured, was also arrested by the Gestapo and, after spending time at Fresnes, was deported to Natzweiler-Struthof, where he died in June 1944. |
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