| LC control no. | n 94091408 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Henriot, Philippe, 1889-1944 |
| Birth date | 1889-01-07 |
| Death date | 1944-06-28 |
| Place of birth | Reims (France) |
| Place of death | Paris (France) |
| Profession or occupation | Politicians Poets Journalists |
| Found in | Le jour où ils tuèrent Philippe Henriot, c1992: p. facing p. 36 (1889-1944) Wikipedia, February 5, 2018 (Philippe Henriot; Philippe Henriot (7 January 1889, Reims--28 June 1944, Paris) was a French poet, journalist, politician, and Minister in the French government at Vichy, where he directed propaganda broadcasts; he also joined the Milice part-time; seeking to shape the perceptions of the French government and German occupation, and to destroy popular support for the Resistance, Henriot broadcast twice daily on Radio Vichy, "repeatedly and eloquently attacking all those he considered lukewarm in their attitude to collaboration and calling on all good Catholics to support the German cause in the fight against communism;" on 28 June 1944, in the Ministry building where he lived, he was assassinated by a group of COMAC members of the Maquis, an organization of rural guerrilla French Resistance fighters during the Occupation of France in World War II) |
| Associated language | fre |
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