Hubert Germain died at the age of 101, announced the minister of the armies, Florence Parly. He had joined General de Gaulle in London in June 1940, then fought within the Legion.
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Hubert Germain died at the age of 101, announced Tuesday, October 12, the Minister of the Armies Florence Parlely in the Senate, without specifying the exact date of the disappearance of the one who was the last of the companions of the liberation. “I would like to have an emotional thought for him, for his family and for his brothers of arms who have left us for a long time. This is an important moment in our history,” said Florence Parly.
Only 1,038 people received the title of liberation companion. As the last of his representatives, Hubert Germain should be buried in Mont-Valerien.
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Hubert Germain looked like the piece of sequoia that served as a cane with the decline of life: it was inflexible. As the piece of wood on which he supported his large carcass, the last of the 1,038 companions of the liberation did not knew to bend. It was thus, the old Germain soldier, der Der, in one piece. “A rock”, said from him Pierre Messmer, of which he was the brother of weapon within the foreign legion, in Bir Hakeim in 1942, then the Minister of the Government, in 1972, post accepted more by fidelity than by taste of the power.
Once sitting, Hubert Germain turned and returned the solid baton with a distracted hand, the marriageing spirit eighty years, wandering between the Libya burning desert and the snowy plains of Alsace. He told a treaty of memories as chiseled in his memory, recited his story which, without a superfluous word, without a burst of voice, took epic value. Encouraged an undisciplined young man, insolent, a little big mouth. A military son in permanent revolt, turning in circles in his rage which, in June 1940, in the chaos of defeat and the ambient cowardice, refused the fatality. At 19, the refractory embarked on England, going from among the first joins De Gaulle and Free France. There was an ideal, better, a destiny
Strong in his certainties for the next five years, he closed neither in front of the events, sometimes desperate, neither in front of men, on the occasion desperate. The former lieutenant would like how, after the landing in Provence, French fooled in front of a glass, in the shadow of a arbor, applauded his men by seeing them pass. “My legionaries asked me,” But they do not come with us? “I was ashamed.” Further, he had put an end to a poor show during the Liberation of Autun (Saône-et-Loire) in 1944. Pacotille vigilantes heard women’s mowing after a trial simulacrum. Hubert Germain made two cannons facing the pseudo-court windows. The masquerade was canceled as per enchantment. And, in the east, this mayor of a municipality just reconquered after bitter fighting who heard them sell the water of his well … this welle shocked him all the more since she was the opposite. From the heroism that he had rubbed shoulders with 1940. She inspired him with a singing and saddened conclusion: “I fought for France, not for the French.”
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