The Woman with a Limp. (true spy story)

[Kingshakabobo]

Now THIS is damn interesting.


From DamnInteresting.com

The Woman with a Limp
Posted by Jason Bellows on January 14th, 2007 at 10:46 am

In the early 1940s, German secret police agents in Nazi-occupied France were on the lookout for a woman with a wooden leg. She was known only as "the woman with a limp," but the Gestapo's many wanted posters described her as "the most dangerous of all Allied spies," asserting that the Nazis "must find and destroy her." Her name was Virginia Hall.

She became a spy entirely by accident. She was studying abroad and working for the Ambulance Service in France when the Blitzkrieg struck, and she was suddenly in the middle of Vichy-controlled France. Despite having been turned away by the Foreign Service because of her handicap, Miss Hall was able to join the British Special Operations Executive and later the US Office of Strategic Services for her remarkable accomplishments.

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[atommom]

1. Read this yesterday. It is a fascinating story ... I'm surprised she

isn't better known.