Louis Barthou
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Jean Louis Barthou (August 25, 1862 – October 9, 1934) was a French politician of the Third Republic. Born in Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Basses-Pyrénées, he was Prime Minister of France in 1913. Barthou was an authority on Trade Union history and law. Louis Barthou was the primary figure behind the Franco-Soviet Mutual Assistance Pact, which was signed by his successor, Pierre Laval. He was serving as Foreign Minister when he was killed accidentally by a policeman reacting to the shooting of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia by Vlado Chernozemski during his visit to Marseilles. Chernozemski was thought to have assassinated both Alexander and Barthou until 1974 when a forensic examination found that the bullet that killed Barthou was an 8mm police calibre bullet and not the 7.65 mm caliber used by Chernozemski. Barthou was wounded in the arm, severing his humeral artery, but received no treatment until it was too late. The assassination ended the career of Préfet Jouhannaud of Marseilles. In 1957, in the Neues Deutschland ("New Germany") newspaper and then in a book and a subsequent film called Unternehmen Teutonenschwert ("Operation Teutonic Sword"), East Germany published an alleged correspondence involving a high-ranking NATO official, Hans Speidel, then an assistant to the German military attaché in Paris, with Hermann Goering, to disseminate the idea that the assassination was planned and prepared by Germans with Hitler's personal sanction on it. The theory has been disputed as propaganda and was further discredited by the 1974 ballistics determination. Barthou's Ministry, 22 March - 9 December 1913
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