French car manufacturer and accused Nazi collaborator, Louis Renault (67), died in a Paris military prison hospital of undetermined causes


Tuesday 24th October 1944

French car manufacturer and accused Nazi collaborator, Louis Renault (67), died in a Paris military prison hospital of undetermined causes. Time Magazine described Renault as “rich, powerful and famous, cantankerous, brilliant, often brutal, the little Napoleon of an car making empire”; “vulgar, loud, domineering, impatient, he was a terror to associates, a friend to practically none.”


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