The last member of an elite group of decorated French Resistance fighters who helped liberate France from Nazi control during the Second World War, has died aged 101.

Born in Paris in 1920, Hubert Germain walked out of his entry exam for France's Naval Academy to join the resistance in June 1940, just after the French state surrendered to the Nazis.



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Pictured: Germain (back, centre) with General Charles de Gaulle (left) in Tunisia in 1943.

Germain (left) with Captain Paul Arnault (in a willy jeep) also a Companion of the Liberation, in South El Alamein in 1942.

Just hope he found Jesus . RIP

After the war, Germain (pictured left in 1972) moved into politics and was the Gaullist mayor of Saint-Cheron, a town south of Paris, before becoming an MP in 1962 and serving as post and telecommunications minister from 1972 to 1974.

French President Emmanuel Macron (pictured right with Germain in June 2020) said Germain 'embodied a century of freedom'.

President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute on Friday to the last surviving member of an order honouring heroes of France's liberation during World War Two who died this week

Soldiers from French Foreign Legion carry the flag-draped coffin of late French WWII veteran and last 'Companion of the Liberation' Hubert Germain during a national tribute at the Invalides in Paris, France, October 15.

Salute

A legend

Rest In Peace ☮️ to all the soldiers that we’ve lost!!
Go well Legend

Repose en paix héro du pouvoir de l'entente !
World war certainly showed the power there is in being outspoken (from Hitler's case).

HERO

Respect to all the fallen heroes.

This man deserve all the respect he is being given, fighting in a desert is one of the most dangerous in terrain wafare, surviving the battle of El Alamein is like surviving hell.

Salute....

Free french army.

I don't know him

Blackfire:
I don't know him

but you now know him.