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Regards, Richard


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i will have to check that out richard, thx.

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"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." -Winston Churchill

A very interesting documentary about Noor Inayat Khan who was a radio operator, she was dropped in to occupied France in 1943 and never told the Germans a thing when she was capture and put to death. Noor Inayat Khan was a forgotten spy, but no more it's nice to see programmes about these people who put their lives at risk in aiding the Allied war effort. [img]graemlins/vc.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/poppy.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/salute.gif[/img]

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Regards, Richard


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Just saw this last night. Very interesting. I found it awful that Khan was betrayed by a Frenchwoman because the latter was not accepted to the SOE and being enraged about that told the Germans about Khan (and also received some price money).

BBC - History - Noor Inayat Khan (1914 - 1944)

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I looked for that on Directv but didn't see anything, I hope that changes!
Kai, I wonder how that woman feels now, knowing that Khan was more than likely executed.

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Members of the Dutch Resistance with 101st AB, Eindhoven. Operation Market Garden.

Scott

Had managed to put the name of the woman on paper...

Noor's mission in France

It was commonly believed Noor was betrayed by the sister of a fellow British agent. A lady named Renee Garry was tried after the war on the charge of betraying Noor to the Germans. She was barely acquitted of the charge by receiving not guilty decisions from five of the nine judges listening to the case. Renee Garry was the sister of Lieutenant Emile Henri Garry, the head agent of the 'Cinema' and 'Phono' circuits.

The story of the betrayal begins with a lady codenamed 'Renee' approaching the German officer Hans Kieffer about a possible deal. Kieffer sent an officer named Ernst Vogt, using the codename 'Andre', to meet 'Renee.' Jean Overton Fuller, Noor's biographer, tried to keep Vogt's identity hidden for some time by simply calling him 'Ernest' and therefore Vogt will be referred to as 'Ernest' here. At the meeting between Ernest and Renee, Ernest learned Renee would expose a British radio operator if the Germans were willing to pay her 100,000 francs or about 500 pounds at the time. Ernest quickly agreed--he would have paid more. Renee was paid half before the arrest. She then showed Ernest where Noor kept her wireless transmitter and other equipment. The opportunity for arrest came a couple of days later. Renee knew Noor would be returning to the Garry's residence, and that the Garry's would not be home. Ernest took a Frenchman named Pierre Cartaud, or Peter as he preferred to be called, to the house of the Garrys. Peter hid until Noor arrived, and then he surprised her by attempting to arrest her. She fought bravely including biting him severely. Peter finally produced a revolver and forced Noor to stay some distance away from him yet maintaining her as a prisoner. Then he called for assistance. Ernest came to help arrest Noor. He found a scared Peter holding the revolver in one corner of a room and Noor sitting on a couch on the other side ready to pounce on her captors.

Noor Inayat Khan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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I can't imagine she didn't see it coming. What a weight to carry!