Date of birth:

July 22nd, 1926 (Rennes, France)

Date of death:

September 21st, 2006

Nationality:

French (1870-present, Republic)

CAREER :
June 1943 : following his brother Henri, joined the IR. 638 - LVF
1944 : transfer to the Waffen SS
February-March 1945 : combat in Pomerania with the 33. SS Division Charlemagne and a German unit of Panzerjäger
10 March 1945 : captured by the soviets near Kolberg, escaped with 3 others SS men and swam over the Oder River near Stepenitz
End March 1945 : join the SS Div Charlemagne after 3 weeks recovering from his wound in a Lazaret
April 1945 : combat in Berlin with the 33.SS Div Charlemagne
1st May 1945 : WIA in a house collapsing, rescued by SS Ostuf Wilhelm Weber and evacuated in a Lazaret near Stadtmitte
May 1945 : tried to escape from Berlin with a group heading westwards encompassing Reichsleiter Martin Bormann
May 1945 : captured again by the Soviets, WIA and sent to a soviet military hospital
June 1945 : escaped in civilian clothes and gained France with other French forced workers
1948 : trialled by a French children''s court of justice to 1 year suspended sentence

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• - François de Lannurien, Le sublime et la Mort, Éditions de l''Homme Libre, 2009
  - Robert Forbes, Pour l''Europe : les volontaires français de la Waffen-SS, Paris, l''Aencre, 2005
  - Stephane Kayser - Georges Bernage, Berlin 1945, Bayeux, Heimdal, 2005