almost the end of the war and he was afraid his son, who was a member of the French Resistance and deportee in a German concentration camp, would be executed (written testimony of General Louis Buisson, a prisoner of war with Mesny, on 29 April 1945 for the Nuremberg Tribunal). Promotions See also Prisoner of war Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War War crimes of the Wehrmacht Nuremberg Tribunal References External links Generals of World War II 1886 births 1945 deaths French generals People from Le Puy-en-Velay French Army generals of World War II French military personnel killed in World War II Executed military leaders Deaths by firearm in Germany People executed by Nazi Germany by firearm World War II prisoners of war held by Germany