{"id":5970,"date":"2016-04-03T11:06:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T17:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5970"},"modified":"2016-04-03T11:06:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T17:06:12","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-3-9-april-1944-charles-de-gaulle-and-marie-pierre-koenig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5970","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 3&#8211;9 April 1944: Charles de Gaulle and Marie-Pierre Koenig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_5969\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=5969\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5969\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5969\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5969\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WKoenig-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"Front row: Generals Omar Bradley, Dwight D. Eisenhower, &amp; Marie-Pierre Koenig, plus Air Marshal Arthur Tedder, taken after D-Day [Public domain]\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WKoenig-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WKoenig-150x123.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WKoenig.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front row: Generals Omar Bradley, Dwight D. Eisenhower, &amp; Marie-Pierre Koenig, plus Air Marshal Arthur Tedder, taken after D-Day [Public domain]<\/p><\/div>This week in the war, General Charles de Gaulle appointed his London-based chief-of-staff, French general Marie-Pierre Koenig\u00a0to head the FFI, the French Forces of the Interior (<em>Forces fran\u00e7aises de l&#8217;int\u00e9rieur<\/em>). Later, in June and with the full backing of the British and Americans, de Gaulle would expand Koenig&#8217;s FFI command to include all resistance movements within enemy-occupied France.<\/p>\n<p>Koenig was already an experienced commander, having commanded French troops in Norway, North Africa and the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in the war, General Charles de Gaulle appointed his London-based chief-of-staff, French general Marie-Pierre Koenig\u00a0to head the FFI, the French Forces of the Interior (Forces fran\u00e7aises de l&#8217;int\u00e9rieur). Later, in June and with the full backing of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5970\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,973,42,972],"class_list":["post-5970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-war-ii","tag-de-gaulle","tag-ffi","tag-french-resistance","tag-koenig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5972,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5970\/revisions\/5972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}