[DIPLOMACY - Charles de GAULLE - President of France during official visit to Poland 2 - situational photographs]....

[DIPLOMACY - Charles de GAULLE - President of France during official visit to Poland 2 - situational photographs]. [9 SEPTEMBER 1967]. Set of 3 photographs form. ca. 13x18 cm, by Zbigniew Zegan.
Shots show the French president and visible among others: chairman of the Council of State of the Polish People's Republic Edward Ochab, adjutant general colonel Jean Martin d'Escrienne, translator Jerzy Tomalak, colonel Zdzislaw Chelminski (BOR MSW). On the back, stamp of the photographer and handwritten inscriptions: "President de Gaulle's tribute in front of the monument to the 80,000 murdered in Auschwitz by the Nazis", "At the site of the former extermination camp, President de Gaulle looks at the International Monument to the Victims of Fascism in concentration and with sadness", "Silesian Land. The ovation of the citizens of Katowice in front of the building of the Presidium of the Provincial National Council". Good condition.
C. de Gaulle (1890-1970) - French politician and military officer, in 1919-1920 stayed in Poland, among other things lecturing on the theory of tactics at the former School of the Imperial Guard in Rembertów, during WWII head of the French government in exile in London, after the war president of France.