Georges Blind the smiling resistance fighter.

Georges Blind was a fireman from Belfort, France who was arrested for being a member of the resistance. After the Gestapo failed to make him talk he was placed in front of a mock firing squad and told if he refused to provide information he would be shot – his response was to smile at his executioners.

After this failed he was deported to a concentration camp and is thought to have been executed in late November 1944.

Alan Malcher