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Hubert Germain, Compagnon de la liberation

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    "PARIS — Hubert Germain, the last of an elite group of decorated French Resistance fighters who helped liberate France from Nazi control in World War II, has died. He was 101.
    The French president’s office announced the death in a statement Tuesday, saying Germain “embodied a century of freedom.” It didn’t divulge details of his death.
    Born Aug. 6, 1920, Germain fled to London in 1940 to join the Resistance. Wounded in Italy during the war, Germain also fought in Egypt, Libya and what is now Syria, and took part in the “southern D-Day” Allied landings on the shores of Provence in 1944.
    He was decorated by resistance leader Gen. Charles de Gaulle with the esteemed Order of the Liberation. The honor was given to 1,038 people known as “Companions of the Liberation,” and Germain was their last surviving member, according to the Museum of the Order of the Liberation."
    www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2021-10-12/Hubert-Germain-French-Resistance-fighter-dies-at-101-3221112.html
     
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