Two Grand Prix winners who were executed:
1~Robert Benoist, winner of the 1927 French Grand Prix and more, executed in 1944 at Buchenwald, Germany concentration camp for sabotage in occupied France.
2~William Grover-Williams, winner of the 1928 French Grand Prix and more, executed in 1945 at Sachsenhausen, Germany concentration camp for sabotage in occupied France.