Henri Zeller

Henri Zeller (born 18 March 1896, Besançon, France – died 16 April 1971, Paris, France) was a French Army general and member of the Resistance organization of the French Army during World War II.

[4] Arriving in Algiers in Algeria in the very first days of August 1944 as a liaison officer, Colonel Zeller, by then head of the French Forces of the Interior (FFI) in the Alps, presented General Charles de Gaulle with the operational possibilities of the French Resistance in the southeast of France.

Informed that Operation Dragoon, the Allied plan for amphibious landings in Provence in Southern France in August 1944, provided for reaching Grenoble in 90 days, Zeller replied "What a mistake!

Zeller declared that throughout the Alps, "the Germans are practically prisoners in their garrisons, from which they only come out in force for their supply or some retaliatory expedition."

Passing into the military reserve after that, he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour by Marshal Alphonse Juin on 1 February 1958.