Gustave Daniel Alfred Biéler DSO, MBE (1904 – September 6, 1944)

Even Nazis hailed courage

On Sunday, along a remnant wall of the cell block where the 40-year-old Canadian and 14 other Allied agents were held before their executions as saboteurs in occupied France, a memorial to their heroics was unveiled.

Dignitaries watched and tears flowed among the men's relatives -- including Bieler's 70-year-old daughter, Jacqueline, from Ottawa.

"I am proud of my father and his moral clarity and his strong resistance to the prevailing Nazi winds," she told CanWest News Service on Wednesday after her return from Germany.

Gustave Daniel Alfred Biéler DSO, MBE (1904 – September 6, 1944) - one of Canada's many unsung heroes.