Sunday, March 17, 2013

Inspired by: Nancy Wake. Wake was a journalist sent to Germany to report on the rise of fascism and to interview Adolf Hitler. After seeing Jews being beaten publicly, she fought to save as many people as she could and ended up at the top of Gestapo's most-wanted list. She was given the name "White Mouse" because she was so elusive. She would flirt with guards to get through checkpoints. Feeling her enemies closing in on her, she fled to Spain and then to Britain where she was trained to be a spy. During the violent months preceding the liberation of Paris, Wake killed a German guard with a single karate chop to the neck, executed a women who had been spying for the Germans, shot her way out of roadblocks and biked 70 hours through perilous Nazi checkpoints to deliver radio codes for the Allies. And she was Australian. She died in August 2011 at age 98. Let me just say that this is probably the coolest woman I've ever heard of!!

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