Samuel Tyszelman
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Samuel Tyszelman was a Jewish Polish communist who was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. He and another man were arrested and executed for taking part in an anti-German demonstrat
Poster announcing that Tyszelman and Gautherot had been executed
Tyszelman's tomb
Otto von Stülpnagel
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Otto Edwin von Stülpnagel was a German military commander of occupied France during the Second World War. Arrested by Allied authorities after the war, he committed suicide in prison in 1948.
Samuel Tyszelman
…morning. When Adolf Hitler heard of Moser's death he ordered that one hundred hostages be executed at once. The German military commander in France, Otto von Stülpnagel, did not want to upset the Vichy government. He told Vichy he just wanted ten hostages, who would be shot if any Germans were attacked. On 27 August…
Stülpnagel in 1941
Grave at Champigny-Saint-André German War Cemetery