Stephane Hessel writer, diplomat and member of the French Resistance in World War 2, died yesterday age 95. Born in Germany but naturalised French he was captured and suffered water boarding by German Gestapo and just escaped being hanged in Buchenwald Concentration Camp by changing identities with a prisoner who had died of typhus. He helped to draft after the war the UN declaration of human rights.
Many reports on his death in newspapers around the world but I have given a link to the Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/27/stephane-hessel-fought-injustice-great-life
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