Alain Le Ray

Alain Le Ray ( born October 3, 1910 in Paris, † June 4, 2007 in Paris) was a French general and resistance fighters.

Le Ray was captured by the Nazis in World War II in 1940. In April 1941, he managed to escape from the force as escape-proof Colditz Castle. He then took a key role in the French resistance. As an experienced climber, he founded in the French Alps near Grenoble, the resistance group Maquis du Vercors. In 1945 he led the French troops in the region around Isère and drove the Nazis from their last retreat items in the Alps at Mont Cenis.

After the end of World War II, he remained true to his craft and fought in Vietnam and Algeria. End of the fifties he was employed by the French government as a military attaché in Bonn.