French Resistance Hero Dies

From the April 12th Chicago Tribune from Reuters.

RAYMOND AUBRAC (1914-2012)

One of the last-surviving leaders of the French to German occupation during World War II died at age 97. His rescue from captivity in 1943 was made into a movie.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said, "These heroes of the shadows who saved France's honor at a time when it seemed lost are disappearing one after another."

His wife, Lucie, was also a Resistance fighter he organized his escape in 1943 and died in 2007. He was arrested with other underground fighters in June 1943 by Klaus Barbie, head of the Gestapo in Lyon. She organized an attack on the German truck carrying him and others. They escaped to London, but his parents were arrested in France, transported to Auschwitz where they died.

Resistance members disrupted occupying German forces through sabotage and guerrilla warfare, blowing up bridges and railroad tracks and providing intelligence and aid to Allied forces.

The Greatest Generation. --GreGen