Jean Hérold-Paquis

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Jean Auguste Hérold, better known as Jean Hérold-Paquis (4 February 1912 - 11 October 1945), was a French journalist who fought for Franco and the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. In 1940 he was appointed as Delegate for Propaganda in the Hautes-Alpes department by the Vichy authorities. From 1942 he broadcast daily news reports on Radio Paris, in which he regularly called for the "destruction" of the United Kingdom. His catchphrase was "England, like Carthage, shall be destroyed !". He was a member of the Parti Populaire Français, better known as the P.P.F., one of the two main Fascist parties under the Occupation. After the Liberation he fled to Germany and then Switzerland. In 1945 he was handed over to the French, and subsequently executed for treason.