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Robert Benoist
1895–1944
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- racing automobile driver
Robert Marcel Charles Benoist (French pronunciation: [ÊÉbÉÊ bÉnwa]; 20 March 1895 â 11 September 1944) was a French Grand Prix motor racing driver.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Buchenwald concentration campDates unknown
Biography
Robert Marcel Charles Benoist (French pronunciation: [ÊÉbÉÊ bÉnwa]; 20 March 1895 â 11 September 1944) was a French Grand Prix motor racing driver. He won several Grand Prix racing events and the 24 Hours of Le Mans between 1924 and 1937. During World War II, Benoist resisted the German occupation of France and worked as an agent in France for the clandestine British Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization. SOE's objectives were to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in countries occupied by the Axis powers, especially those occupied by Nazi Germany. SOE agents allied themselves with French resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment. In 1943, Benoist was captured by the Germans in Paris, but escaped and fled to Britain. Returning to France, he led a sabotage campaign around Nantes, but he was captured again in June 1944 and executed.
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