Free French/Fighting French
General Charles de Gaulle: Undersecretary of national defense, June 1940; thereafter, leader of the Free French/Fighting French throughout Second World War; head of Provisional French Government, 1946; premier of Fourth Republic, 1958; president of Fifth Republic, 1959–69.
Geoffroy de Courcel: Aide-de-camp and private secretary to General de Gaulle, 1940–41; later deputy chef du cabinet, ambassador to London.
Elisabeth de Miribel: Volunteer and aide to General de Gaulle 1940–49; member Carmelite Order 1949–58; later a French diplomat.
General Marie-Pierre Koenig: Commander-in-chief, Free French Forces; later marshall of France.
General Jacques-Philippe Leclerc de Hautecloque: Commander, 2nd Armoured Division 1944–45; liberator of Paris.
Jean Moulin: Delegate-General to the French Resistance.
Henri Georges René Tanguy (Colonel Rol-Tanguy): Communist leader of the Resistance in Paris.
Georges Bidault: President, Comité National de la Resistance.
General Jacques Chaban-Delmas: Fighting French military delegate to the Resistance, 1944–45.
Government of France (1940)
Édouard Daladier: Premier and minister of defense.
Paul Reynaud: Premier, March–June 1940.
Albert Lebrun: President, 1932–40.
Vichy France (1940–44)
Marshall Philippe Pétain: First World War hero; surrendered France to Germany in Second World War; chief of state, 1940–44.
Pierre Laval: Premier during German occupation.
General Maxime Weygand: Minister of defense.
Admiral François Darlan: Minister for interior, defense, and foreign affairs, 1941–42; high commissioner in North Africa, 1942.
United Kingdom
Winston Churchill: Prime minister 1940–45, 1951–55.
Anthony Eden: Secretary of state for war, 1940–45; prime minister during 1956 Suez crisis.
Major-General Edward Spears: Personal representative of Winston Churchill to France, 1940.
United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt: President, 1933–45.
Cordell Hull: Secretary of State, 1933–44.
Robert Murphy: Chargé d’affaires, Vichy, 1940; special mission, Algeria, 1941–43.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower: Commander-in-chief, Allied forces in Europe, 1943–45; president 1953–61.
Admiral William D. Leahy: Ambassador to Vichy France, 1941–42.
William C. Bullitt: Ambassador to France, 1935–40.
Canada
William Lyon Mackenzie King: Prime minister 1935–48.
Major Georges Vanier: Ambassador to France 1940, 1944–53; governor general, 1959–67.
Jean Dupuy: Ambassador to Vichy France, 1941–42, later head of Expo ’67, Montreal.
Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler: Führer, head of Nazi Party, commander-in-chief of armed forces, 1933–45.
General Dietrich von Choltitz: Military governor of Paris, August 1944.
Otto Abetz: Nazi ambassador to France, 1940–44.
West Germany
Konrad Adenhauer: Chancellor, Federal Republic of West Germany, 1949–63.