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Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine wants New York City to remove the names of Nazi collaborators Henri Philippe Pétain and Pierre Laval from the Canyon of Heroes.
Mark Levine is calling for NYC to remove Henri Philippe Petain and Pierre Laval from the Canyon of Heroes in Lower Manhattan.
The mountain was named in 1919 for Henri Philippe Pétain — better known as Philippe Pétain — a French field marshal who was hailed as a hero during the First World War for leading his ...
Monuments and markers to controversial explorer Christopher Columbus, French Nazi collaborator Henri Philippe Petain and former US President Theodore Roosevelt were also eyed for removal — but ...
Geoffrey Taylor’s success in having the name of Henri Philippe Petain struck from a mountain in Peter Lougheed Provincial Park left some unfinished business, said his son. So Calgarian Duncan ...
Not in a tumbril but in a Black Maria, Henri Philippe Pétain, 89, hero of Verdun, Marshal of France and chief of the late Vichy Government, rode to one of history's great trials—his ...
One of the most hushed-up episodes of the German occupation of France came in July 1942, when Marshal Henri Philippe Petain’s police rounded up more than 7,000 Jews, detaining them for five days ...
Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain is old, crotchety, painstaking, slow. He is also honorable, patriotic and, when he takes the advice of a few trusted friends, often a clever political tactician.