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π‘οΈ Resistance & Espionage
Virginia Hall: The Allied Spy the Gestapo Called 'the Limping Lady'
Virginia Hall was an American who worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in occupied France. After escaping to Spain in 1942 following a Gestapo raid, she was declared "the most dangerous of all aliens" by the...
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π‘οΈ Resistance & Espionage
The Dutch Spy Who Saved Operation Market Garden
On September 17, 1944, the day Operation Market Garden launched, a Dutch resistance member using the codename "Gε΄rrit" (Gerrit) transmitted the complete German defensive positions in the Netherlands to Allied intelligenc...