£40
A collection of ten photographs of Ferdinand Otto Miksche, with a few older assorted family photographs depicting European diplomats and aristocracy around the end of WW2. Includes photographs of the lighting of the Eternal Flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, c1945 by Miksche as Czech Military attaché. (10)
Ferdinand Otto Miksche was a Lt Colonel in the French Amy and the holder of the French Legion D'honneur. Born in Austria he became and Officer in the Czech Army and in 1945 the Czech Military attache in Paris. He spent time in England with De Gaulle at the time of establishing the Free French Forces. He returned to France with De Gaulle and became a French citizen and the Lt Colonel on the Foreign Legion. Miksche spent 8 years in Portugal in the 1950s and received their highest honour (Order of the Portuguese Empire) for his work teaching in the Military academy in Caxias. In later years he was a frequent guest on German TV and became a liason attache to Strauss and the Bavarian Government.
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