Battles of the First World War Podcast
Second Marne - The Case of Sgt Darnand
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From hero to zero.
On the evening of July 14th, 1918, French soldiers of the 366eme Regiment d'Infanterie led a historic raid into the German trenches opposite them. One of the Poilus, Sergeant Joseph Darnand, led a squad that captured not just German prisoners but an intelligence gold mine. Postwar, Darnand would be called an "artisan de la victoire"--an artisan of victory.
By the end of the Second World War however, Darnand would be called something else: traitor.
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