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    Joseph Gastaldo
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    Thomas Lérat
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Joseph Gastaldo
Joseph Gastaldo
A cavalryman, Joseph Gastaldo was at the front on April 18, 1918 and ended the war with a citation.
From 1927 to 1931, he is in Syria where he discovers his vocation, teaching. At the war school, he met Henri Frenay. Fluent in German and Czech, he was stationed in Prague in 1938.
In 1940, Captain Gastaldo commanded a Czech grouping, which he managed to have shipped to Great Britain. He himself moves to the zone libre, in the armistice army. In Saint-Affrique, he organizes an escape route. Transferred to Bourg-en-Bresse as head of the 2e bureau de l'état-major de la 7e région militaire, he makes contact with Frenay in Lyon (November 1942).
He soon became head of the 2nd office of the Armée secrète staff. On June 9, 1943, Joseph Gastaldo (under the false identity of Garin, a teacher) and a liaison agent of Daniel Cordier, Jean-Louis Théobald aka Jean-Jacques Terrier, are arrested not far from the La Pompe metro station, where they were meeting Charles Delestraint.
All are imprisoned at Fresnes.
On March 9, 1944, Gastaldo, Delestraint and Émile Schwarzfeld are deported. Put in the Struthof camp, Gastaldo was transported to Brieg (Brzeg) prison in Poland and then to KL Gross-Rosen.
On February 8, 1945, he jumped off the train in Sudetenland during transport to Flossenburg. Marching at night, he was recaptured, beaten and taken to the Reichenau camp, where he was liberated by the Allied armies.
He died in 1955.
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Joseph Gastaldo
Joseph Gastaldo.
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Joseph Gastaldo
Joseph Gastaldo.
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Joseph Gastaldo
Joseph Gastaldo.
Memoriaux

Joseph Gastaldo

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