Was de Gaulle a prisoner of war during World War II? If so, where?

Answer 1

No he was not; he was living in the UK during that period (WWII).
The answer that came with Vichy is wrong, the pupet Government of the time had its HQ there.

Answer 2

At the outbreak of World War II, de Gaulle was a colonel commanding a tank regiment in Alsace. In May 1940, at the time of the German offensive, he was promoted to brigadier general and placed in charge of the hastily formed 4th Armored Division, which helped check the German advances under desperate conditions. On June 6, 1940, Premier Paul Reynaud, who for many years had championed de Gaulle's ideas in the Chamber of Deputies, appointed him undersecretary of state for war. De Gaulle was one of the few in the cabinet to resist surrender and to propose that the government withdraw if necessary to North Africa to continue the struggle. When Marshal Petain, who was committed to an armistice with the Germans, became premier, de Gaulle left for London. On June 18 he broadcast the first of his appeals to his compatriots to continue the struggle.

He soon became the very symbol of the entire Resistance, even though the exiled armed forces at his disposal were few in number. He impressed upon British Prime Minister Winston CHURCHILL the significance of the movement but did not succeed in impressing the highly skeptical leaders in Washington--including President Franklin D. ROOSEVELT, who thought of him as a potential dictator and as an obstacle to U. S. relations with the Vichy regime. In July 1940 a French court martial sentenced de Gaulle to death for treason.

From 1942 on, de Gaulle's Free (or Fighting) French movement gained in power and influence, winning over the French colonies in West Africa, and establishing close ties with the underground Resistance movement in France itself. De Gaulle reiterated his intention to allow the French people to decide their political destiny after liberation and won the backing of many of the former republican political leaders.

In November 1942, when American and British expeditionary forces landed in North Africa, they persuaded Adm. Jean Francois Darlan, head of the Vichy armed forces and Marshal Petain's representative in North Africa, to order a cease-fire, in return for which Darlan was named high commissioner for French North Africa. De Gaulle and many segments of the British and American press denounced the step. After Darlan's assassination a month later, the Allies named Gen. Henri Giraud as high commissioner. Seeing his opportunity, de Gaulle moved his headquarters to Algiers in May 1943. He organized the French Committee of National Liberation, with himself and General Giraud as cochairmen, and soon eased out the less adroit Giraud.

By 1944, de Gaulle was widely recognized as political leader of the Resistance movement. In June 1944 he transformed the Committee of National Liberation into a provisional government of the French republic. Although he was not permitted to land on D-Day, he arrived on French soil a week later on June 14 and on August 25 he entered Paris in triumph.

Answer 3

No, he was the leader of the Free-French movement based in Vichey

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Answer 4

deGaulle was president of France since WWII, until some year in the 1960's!!!

Answer 5

No

Answer 6

he wasn't

Answer 7

i don't think so.