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The Gestapo's most wanted person in France was a New Zealand–born Australian woman who led 7,000 resistance fighters and killed an SS sentry with her bare hands.
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The Gestapo's most wanted person in France was a New Zealand–born Australian woman who led 7,000 resistance fighters and killed an SS sentry with her bare hands.
MediumBritish intelligence planted fake invasion plans on a corpse and floated it to Spanish shores to deceive the Nazis about the Allied invasion of Sicily.
MediumA Polish resistance officer deliberately got himself arrested and sent to Auschwitz to gather intelligence and organize a resistance movement inside the death camp.
HardA young Jewish photographer survived by being forced to process photos for the Nazis, then escaped to join partisans, documenting resistance life with salvaged cameras.
HardA French intelligence network codenamed "Noah's Ark" used animal names for all agents and provided critical intelligence on German V-weapon sites.
HardOver 260,000 Filipino guerrilla fighters waged a massive resistance campaign against the Japanese occupation, providing crucial intelligence for MacArthur's return.
MediumA group of young German university students produced anti-Nazi leaflets calling for resistance, before being caught, tried, and executed within days.
MediumA one-legged American woman became one of the most effective Allied spies in France, organizing resistance networks while the Gestapo desperately hunted "the limping lady."
HardViolette Szabo, a half-French, half-British SOE agent, twice parachuted into occupied France before being captured, tortured, and executed at age 23.
In a precision bombing raid, RAF Mosquitoes blew open the walls of Amiens Prison to allow Resistance fighters facing execution to escape—but the operation's true purpose remains debated.