Editing Marcel Dassault (section)

==Career==
[[File:Dassault Marcel.jpg|thumb|left|Marcel Bloch, {{circa}} 1912]]
Bloch worked at the French Aeronautics Research Laboratory at [[Chalais-Meudon]]{{sfn|Aloni|2010|p=8}} during [[World War I]] and invented a type of [[Propeller (aircraft)|aircraft propeller]] subsequently used by the French army during the conflict. In 1916, with [[Henry Potez]] and Louis Coroller, he formed a company, the ''[[Société d'Études Aéronautiques]]'', to produce the SEA series of fighters.<ref name="Gunston">{{cite book |last1=Gunston |first1=Bill |title=World Encyclopedia of Aircraft Manufacturers |date=2005 |publisher=Sutton Publishing |location=Stroud, UK |isbn=0-7509-3981-8 |page=371 |edition=2nd}}</ref>

In 1928, Bloch founded the aircraft company ''[[Société des Avions Marcel Bloch]]'', which produced its first aircraft in 1930.{{sfn|Aloni|2010|p=8}} In 1935, Bloch and [[Henry Potez]] entered into an agreement to buy ''[[Société Aérienne Bordelaise]]'' (SAB).{{citation needed|date=October 2016}} In 1936, the company was [[nationalization|nationalized]] as the ''[[Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Ouest]]'' (SNCASO). Bloch agreed to become the delegated administrator of the Minister for Air.<ref name=FundingUniverse/>

During the [[occupation of France]] by [[Nazi Germany]] during World War II, France's aviation industry was virtually disbanded,<ref>Dassault Aviation ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20060311085725/http://www.dassault-aviation.com/passion/gb/dassault_a_a_z/histoire_aviation/1916_1945/1916_1945_d.cfm History, 1916 to this day: During the War]''. Accessed 5 January 2006.</ref> other than the compulsory manufacturing, assembly, and servicing of German designs. In October 1940, Bloch refused to collaborate with the German occupiers at [[Bordeaux-Aéronautique]] and was imprisoned by the [[Vichy government]].

In 1944, the Nazis deported Bloch to the [[Buchenwald concentration camp]],{{sfn|Aloni|2010|p=8}} as punishment for refusing to co-operate with their regime. He was tortured, beaten, and held in solitary confinement. In the meantime, his wife was interned near Paris. Bloch was detained at Buchenwald until it was liberated on 11 April 1945. By the time of his return to Paris, he was disabled to such an extent that he could barely walk. He was advised by his doctors to settle his affairs, as they did not expect him to recover his health.{{sfn|Aloni|2010|p=8}}

After the war, he changed his name from Bloch to Bloch-Dassault and in 1949 to Dassault. This name derived from 'Chardasso', the ''[[nom de guerre]]'' used by his brother, General [[Darius Paul Bloch]], when he served in the [[French Resistance]].{{sfn|Aloni|2010|p=8}} The pseudonym was a play on ''char d'assaut'', French for "assault tank".<ref group="note">''Char d'assault'' colloquially means "battle tank" in French, but a word-for-word translation would be "assault wagon". ''D'assault'' simply means "for assault" or "for attack".</ref> In 1971, Dassault acquired Breguet, forming ''Avions Marcel Dassault–Breguet Aviation'' (AMD–BA).