page_title: Claude Rodier
section_title: Posthumous Recognition
hierarchical_section_title: Claude Rodier / Posthumous Recognition
caption_attribution_description: English: Monument in memory of Pierre Virlogeux and Claude Rodier, French Resistants who died "for France" in 1944, located in Riom, Puy-de-Dôme, France Français&#160;: Monument à la mémoire de Pierre Virlogeux et Claude Rodier, Résistants Français "morts pour la France" en 1944 situé Avenue Virlogeux à Riom, Puy-de-Dôme, France
context_page_description: Claude Rodier was a physicist, officer, and staff sergeant in the Mouvements Unis de la Résistance, part of the French Resistance in Auvergne, France.
context_section_description: Upon returning to Germany, Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz carried Claude Rodier's glasses and returned them to her parents, who still had not heard the fate of their grandson, Jean Virlogeux. He had been liberated on May 6, 1945 from the Wöbbelin concentration camp by the 82nd Airborne Division of the United States and was repatriated to France on July 29, 1945, after a stay at the hospital of Ludwigslust to treat typhus and advanced bone decalcification.
  After the war, the municipality of Riom changed the name of Riom-Châtelguyon avenue, which led from the city center to the SNCF train station, to avenue Virlogeux. On this avenue, a monument to Rodier and Virlogeux was erected. Upon a base of ceramic tile rests a slab of stone cut in the form of a menhir, containing a portrait of Claude Rodier in profile and topped with a bust of Pierre Virlogeux, both portraits being made by Virlogeux himself.
  The 19th century park along this avenue was also renamed square Virlogeux in their honor.
  The public high school of Riom, constructed on the site of the Anthéroche barracks where Pierre Virlogeux committed suicide and where his body was hidden by the SS of Clermont-Ferrand, was named lycée Pierre-et-Claude-Virlogeux.
caption: Monument to Pierre Virlogeux and Claude Rodier
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