• Operation Frankton

Date of birth:

August 19th, 1899 (Brétignolles, France)

Date of death:

April 4th, 1945 (Boelcke Kaserne/Nordhausen, Germany)

Nationality:

French

Lucien Gody was born on August 19, 1899, in Brétignolles (Deux-Sèvres) to domestic servants Marie Marlleau and Lucien Thimotée Gody. He married Alice Rachel Renaudet—a farmer—in Ébréon (Charente) on April 18, 1922, where he also served as a municipal councilor. They had two daughters: Lucienne (b. August 23, 1924) and Odile (b. August 28, 1931).

Following Operation Frankton in Bordeaux, Lucien was arrested on December 24, 1942, in Beaunac, Ébréon, for helping Englishmen Harler and Sparks escape. Detained with André Latouche and the Rousseau brothers—René and Maurice —he was first held in Angoulême and then in Fresnes (from February 15). Secretly deported from Paris’s Gare de l’Est to SS camp Hinzert, he was tried at Wittlich until August 2, 1944, then transferred to Breslau. After the "NN" procedure was repealed in September 1944, he was handed to the Gestapo and sent to Gross Rosen on January 11, 1945. As the Soviets advanced, he was evacuated to Mittelbau-Dora on February 11, 1945 and, deemed unfit for work, was moved to Boelcke Kaserne in Nordhausen. He died there on April 4, 1945, during Allied bombings.

Lucien is indirectly one of the three French civilian victims who died as a result of Operation Frankton.

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