Tour de France cyclist Eugéne Gréau was married with four children and shortly following the occupation of France joined the resistance. After being arrested for sabotage at the Niort railway yard where he worked he was transported to Sonnenburg concentration camp under the Nacht und Nebel decree (Night and Fog). This decree targeted political activists and members of the resistance and symbolised prisoners disappearing in the night and fog and never being seen again by their families and their faint never being known.
In this respect the decree also punished families because they were regarded as being guilty by association. Eugéne Gréau is thought to have died at Sonnenburg camp in German occupied Poland on 20 December 1943 and like most of the people arrested under this decree has no known grave.
Alan Malcher 