The result was keep. The votes are split evenly, but I find the "keep" comments more convincing: the "delete" voters haven't explained to me why the two references, and the fact that he was a centenarian who met one of his adversaries almost 80 years after a battle, should be removed from Wikipedia. Non-admin closure to help with an extraordinary backlog. Shalom ( Hello • Peace) 04:10, 28 February 2008 (UTC) reply
Notability questioned. The claim of notability seems only to be that this man was a member of both the French and German armies. This was not an uncommon thing during World War II when Russian, French, Polish , etc. soldiers were conscripted into the German army after defeat. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 02:46, 19 February 2008 (UTC) reply