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Show Dunkerque Hero Gets Five-Year Prison Term PARIS. Lieut. Gen. Alfred Fa calde, who fought off the German! at Dunkerque, was stripped of his rank and condemned to five years' confinement by a court-martial for having offered to join the German Waffen SS while a prisoner in 1944. Lieut. Gen. Rene-Paul Dubuisson received a four-year suspended sen tence but was deprived of his rank and personal wealth, while Ma Gen. Jacques d'Arras was acquitted. ac-quitted. Fagalde, who also was stripped of his personal wealth, pleaded just before the court pronounced its findings that he had never intended to serve in the German army but had merely wanted to get the chance to return to France. |