The Evening Star (December 15, 1945)
Gen. Dentz, leading Vichyite, dies in jail
PARIS (AP) – Gen. Henri Fernand Dentz, former French high commissioner in Syria and one of the most prominent figures in the Vichy regime, died in Fresnes prison Thursday of a heart attack.
Gen. Dentz was serving a life sentence, commuted from death, for permitting the Germans to use air bases in Syria in 1941 in their effort to support Axis-inspired, anti-British forces in Iraq.