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Jean Adolphe Louis Robert Flavigny

Jean Adolphe Louis Robert Flavigny

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Jean Adolphe Louis Robert Flavigny (1880-1948) was a French general.[1]

In May 1940, during the Battle of France, Wehrmacht troops crossed the Meuse near Sedan.

Flavigny hesitated to command the beginning of a counterattack during the Battle of Sedan and the French troops lost the battle.

He was imprisoned in Colditz from 19 January 1945.

References

  1. [1]
    Frieser, Karl-heinz (2005). The Blitzkrieg legend: the 1940 campaign in the West. Naval Institute Press. p. 187. ISBN 978-1-59114-294-2. Retrieved 25 April 2013.


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