Oh… I hope he enjoyed his long life to the fullest after going through what he lived in his youth.
Merci à ce grand Monsieur, qu’il repose en paix.
Wow already? It feels just like yesterday that the last “poilu” (WW1 fighters) died. As a French, I’m grateful to him and other résistants and I can’t imagine the courage it takes to risk your life in order to help your compatriots.
Ruhe in Frieden.
I hope he lived a happy and fullfilling life in peace.
> “There comes a day when what you have left is the respect that we must have for all those who sacrificed themselves and of whom we no longer speak. All those I killed, even without knowing it, I also hold in my prayers. Those whom I could not rescue, too. My duty today is to think about them, even as some of them might be forgotten by their families.”
Not only was he brave, but also a very compassionate and thoughtful human being. He has my utmost respect and admiration. Rest in peace, Hubert Germain.
I have mixed feelings with this situation. Apart from the sadness of a human’s death, loosing everybody who saw the madness of war means there are noone who accually can see the importance of the peace from the first hand. (But having the entire population who wouldn’t have any grudge due to war is not that bad tho)
>History has turned a page as the last surviving member of France’s most distinguished group of World War II Resistance heroes, known as the Order of Liberation, has died at the age of 101.
Just for the people that like me were confused and not sure if this could be possible. I think they were speaking of a specific regiment not all resistance fighter let alone members.
Most of my family was either too old to have fought in WW2 or too young ( 3 had died in WWI including one of the Spanish flu months before the end of the conflict). My grandmother still remembers the change from when the departnment went from Vichy ‘rule’ to full German occupation. We had two teenage boys in our family. One went to Germany to serve in the factories (STO meant for every three frenchmen who went one French POW would be released) and the other went on to join the resistance as a messenger boy he didn’t do any fighting during but he held onto his guns for the rest of his life. I remember seeing him before he sadly passed on over a decade ago I must have been around he age he was when we joined up. I remember his contempt for Last hour resistants- the people who flocked to join the resistance in the weeks following Liberation of Paris and Toulouse. I thought of him when I saw this article and it made me sad.
Well done sir. Rest in peace.
Vive la Resistance, always and forever
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. ~Pericles.
Rest in Peace.
wow chad
R.I.P
At the going down of the Sun, we will remember them……
I think I met this man once randomly at the l’arc de triomphe
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Repose en paix 🙏
Oh… I hope he enjoyed his long life to the fullest after going through what he lived in his youth.
Merci à ce grand Monsieur, qu’il repose en paix.
Wow already? It feels just like yesterday that the last “poilu” (WW1 fighters) died. As a French, I’m grateful to him and other résistants and I can’t imagine the courage it takes to risk your life in order to help your compatriots.
Ruhe in Frieden.
I hope he lived a happy and fullfilling life in peace.
> “There comes a day when what you have left is the respect that we must have for all those who sacrificed themselves and of whom we no longer speak. All those I killed, even without knowing it, I also hold in my prayers. Those whom I could not rescue, too. My duty today is to think about them, even as some of them might be forgotten by their families.”
Not only was he brave, but also a very compassionate and thoughtful human being. He has my utmost respect and admiration. Rest in peace, Hubert Germain.
I have mixed feelings with this situation. Apart from the sadness of a human’s death, loosing everybody who saw the madness of war means there are noone who accually can see the importance of the peace from the first hand. (But having the entire population who wouldn’t have any grudge due to war is not that bad tho)
>History has turned a page as the last surviving member of France’s most distinguished group of World War II Resistance heroes, known as the Order of Liberation, has died at the age of 101.
Just for the people that like me were confused and not sure if this could be possible. I think they were speaking of a specific regiment not all resistance fighter let alone members.
Most of my family was either too old to have fought in WW2 or too young ( 3 had died in WWI including one of the Spanish flu months before the end of the conflict). My grandmother still remembers the change from when the departnment went from Vichy ‘rule’ to full German occupation. We had two teenage boys in our family. One went to Germany to serve in the factories (STO meant for every three frenchmen who went one French POW would be released) and the other went on to join the resistance as a messenger boy he didn’t do any fighting during but he held onto his guns for the rest of his life. I remember seeing him before he sadly passed on over a decade ago I must have been around he age he was when we joined up. I remember his contempt for Last hour resistants- the people who flocked to join the resistance in the weeks following Liberation of Paris and Toulouse. I thought of him when I saw this article and it made me sad.
Well done sir. Rest in peace.
Vive la Resistance, always and forever
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. ~Pericles.
Rest in Peace.
wow chad
R.I.P
At the going down of the Sun, we will remember them……
I think I met this man once randomly at the l’arc de triomphe
I wonder what he did June 1940-June 1944.