18 janvier 1873 :Naissance - Châlons-en-Champagne, Marne, France
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Général de brigade
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8 novembre 1962 :
8 novembre 1962 :Décès - Paris, Île-de-France, France
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Nom Prefixe: Général
Brigadier-General Léon Rheims (1873-1962). The latter was wounded at Verdun where he served as a battalion commander then after the war was head of the technical engineering section of the Ministry of War, who from 1933-34 served as President of the French Jewish Scouts and is renowned for having predicted the ineffectiveness of the Maginot Line. As a Jew he was put on the retired list by the Vichy régime but was reappointed to his previous rank after the war.