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April 17, 1942: French General Henri Geraud escapes from a German prison camp....again. Giraud was wounded and captured by the Germans during the First World War, and managed to escape from his prisoner-of-war camp. Then, early in WWII, he was again captured by the Germans in May 1940 and imprisoned in Königstein Castle near Dresden, which was used as a high-security POW prison. However he made another successful escape from captivity in April 1942 after two years of careful planning. From within Vichy France he worked with the Allies in secret, and assumed command of French troops in North Africa after Operation Torch.
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