Charles Noguès

[1] He graduated from the École Polytechnique,[2] and he was awarded the Grand Croix of the Legion of Honour in 1939.

[4] Upon the outbreak of World War II, he was named Commander in Chief of all French Forces in North Africa and announced strict measures against German sympathizers.

During World War II, he served as Resident-General in Morocco and Commander-in-Chief in French North Africa.

[6][7] Noguès was appalled by news that the French government was seeking an armistice with Germany.

[8] Noguès accepted the armistice on 22 June, partly because he claimed that Admiral François Darlan would not let him have the French fleet to continue hostilities against the Axis powers.

[5] In 1940, Noguès implemented antisemitic decrees coming from German-controlled Vichy government that excluded Jews from public functions.

[9] Sultan Mohammed V refused "Vichy’s plan to ghettoize and deport Morocco’s quarter of a million Jews to the killing factories of Europe",[9] but the French government under Noguès managed to impose some antisemitic laws against the sultan's will.

Charles Noguès addresses French and Moroccans after the Allied invasion in November 1942 on the front page of es-Saada , an Arabic propaganda newspaper that was published by the French in Morocco. [ 13 ]