Henri Jacques Paul Frager was a member of the French Resistance during World War II.
16 Facts About Henri Frager
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Henri Frager was second in command of the CARTE network, then head of the SOE network DONKEYMAN, rising to the rank of major within SOE.
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In 1944, Frager was betrayed to the Germans, deported and executed.
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Henri Jacques Paul Frager was born in France on 3 March 1897, the son of Alphonse Jean Frager and Eugenie Louis Adolpine Frager, nee Sauvier.
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Henri Frager married the Russian-born Louba Frager and worked as an architect in Nice in civil life.
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Girard wanted to develop a network to resist the occupation and influence of Nazi Germany, whereas Henri Frager was then preparing to get to London via Algeria.
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Henri Frager reached Algeria in December that year but, after several failed attempts to get from there to London, returned to Antibes in April 1941 and got back in contact with Girard, who recruited him into CARTE as his second in command under the codename Louba.
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Henri Frager had brought along his substitute and friend, Roger Bardet, to assist in his departure for London, but Dericourt forbade him from doing so.
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Henri Frager believed Dericourt to be a Gestapo agent and Dericourt suspected that Henri Frager thought as much.
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Hugo Bleicher wrote in his book of his recruitment of Roger Bardet as V-Mann, and how Bardet had got into Henri Frager's good books by revealing to him that Dericourt was a double agent working for Kieffer.
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Henri Frager's visit was facilitated by Gilbert, who once more enjoyed the British's confidence and had become head of all personnel on the ground for secret flights and landings by SOE's French section.
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Henri Frager opposed this order, and was embarked on the plane by force.
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On 29 February 1944 Henri Frager was returned to France at Beg-an-Fry near Morlaix, under the codename Jean-Marie.
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Henri Frager was sent as head of the DONKEYMAN network, with orders to develop Resistance groups in the Yonne and on the Cote d'Azur.
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Henri Frager's networks developed normally, one under Bardet and the other under Kieffer.
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Between June and August 1944, Henri Frager's groups were supplied by 25 parachute drops, but Henri Frager was betrayed by Bardet and arrested on 3 August 1944 and handed over to Bleicher on 8 August 1944.