Laurent Touyeras

Laurent Touyeras
Born (1910-11-10)10 November 1910
Sainte-Sigolène, Haute-Loire
Died 14 August 1980(1980-08-14)
Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées
Allegiance Allies
Service/branch Artillery
Rank Captain
Unit 2nd Armoured Division (France)

Captain Laurent Touyeras (10 November 1910 in Sainte-Sigolène, Haute-Loire – 14 August 1980 in Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées) was a French artillery captain in the Maginot Line during the Second World War.

He was taken prisoner by the Germans in 1940. Later he was in General Philippe Leclerc's 2nd Armoured Division.[1] There are claims that on 5 May 1945, he was the first to arrive at Hitler's Berghof in the Obersalzberg and accepted the surrender of its guards.[1][2] Touyeras hoisted the French flag over Hitler's "Eagle's Nest" (Kehlsteinhaus).[3][4]

References

  1. 1 2 Raison, Jean (21 April 1995). "2me D.B. Le Terme de la Chevauchée: Berchtesgaden" [2nd Division End of the line: Berchtesgaden]. Association nationale de Anciens Combattants de la Banque de France (in French). Retrieved 2 January 2015. External link in |work= (help)
    Le Capitaine Laurent TOUYERAS, commandant la 3lme Batterie du XI/64 RADB, fut le premier à pénétrer, avec son seul chauffeur, le Brigadier François BORG, dans 1'OBERSALZBERG où se trouvait le BERGHOF, la résidence de HITLER. Le Capitaine TOUYERAS eut l'honneur de recevoir du Général LECLERC l'ordre de hisser nos couleurs sur le Nid d'Aigle du Führer, ce qu'il fit le 5 MAI 45.
    Captain Laurent Touyeras, commander of the 31st Battery of 11/64 RADB, was the first to penetrate (accompanied only by his driver, Brigadier François Borg) into the Obersalzberg, where they found the Berghof, Hitler's residence. Captain Touyeras was pleased to receive General Leclerc's orders to hoist colours on the Führer's Eagle's Nest, which was done 5 May 45.
  2. ↑ Mitchell, Arthur (2007). Hitler's Mountain: The Führer, Obersalzberg and the American Occupation of Berchtesgaden. McFarland. p. 132. ISBN 9780786424580.
  3. ↑ "En mai 1945 j'étais dans le nid d'aigle de Hitler" [In May 1945, I was in Hitler's Eagle's Nest]. La Nouvelle République des Pyrénées (in French). 8 May 2010. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
    « Le 4 mai 1945, c'est mon officier, le capitaine Laurent Touyeras, qui a planté le drapeau français au Berghof, le fameux nid d'aigle de Hitler, perché au sommet d'une montagne à Berchtesgaden », raconte Philippe Bonnet, ancien de la 2 e DB (division blindée) du général Leclerc.
    "On 4 May 1945, my commanding officer, Captain Laurent Touyeras, hoisted the French flag at the Berghof, Hitler's famous Eagle's Nest on a mountain summit in the Berchtesgaden", recalls Phillipe Bonnet, late of General Leclerc's 2nd Armoured Division.
  4. ↑ Ségot, Jean-Philippe (25 April 2014). "La vente de la honte?" [Cash for dishonours?]. Semaine de Pays-Basque (in French). Groupe Sud-Ouest. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
    Dans sa Jeep, le capitaine Laurent Touyeras, son chauffeur, le brigadier François Borg, dépassèrent les autochenilles de la 2e DB qui peinaient à gravir la pente. Ils furent ainsi les premiers soldats alliés à atteindre le chalet qui se consumait encore.
    In his jeep, Captain Laurent Touyeras and his driver, Brigadier François Borg, overtook the 2nd Division's half-tracks, which struggled to climb the slope. They were thus the first Allied soldiers to reach and take the chalet.


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