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Women in WWII
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October 4, 2019, 9:19 am
Forgotten female spymaster led French Resistance’s largest intelligence ring
Marie-Madeleine Fourcade used society’s conservative view of women to her advantage, helming an operation that saw hundreds gather intel essential for defeating Nazis
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September 6, 2017, 7:02 pm
The woman who carried Hitler’s teeth on V-Day
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The women in WWII Paris who ‘did what they had to’ for survival
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