Jacques Arthuys

Jacques Arthuys
Born(1894-02-15)15 February 1894
Belfort, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
Died9 September 1943(1943-09-09) (aged 49)
Hinzert concentration camp, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
NationalityFrench
OccupationIndustrialist
Known forResistance leader

Jacques Arthuys (15 February 1894 – 9 September 1943) was a French industrialist, a right-wing intellectual and an early leader of the French Fascist movement. He was initially a pan-European but became opposed to the Nazi movement. During World War II (1939–45) he was leader of a French Resistance organization. He was arrested, deported to a concentration camp and killed by the Germans.


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