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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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02 Jul 2006 04:59:41 AM |
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OT: Noor Inayat Khan |
Noor Inayat Khan's George Cross was published in the London Gazette on
5 April 1949:
http://www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/agentgcs.htm
Assistant Section Officer INAYAT-KHAN was the first woman operator to
be infiltrated into enemy occupied France, and was landed by Lysander
aircraft on 16th June, 1943. During the weeks immediately following her
arrival, the Gestapo made mass arrests in the Paris Resistance groups
to which she had been detailed. She refused however to abandon what had
become the principal and most dangerous post in France, although given
the opportunity to return to England, because she did not wish to leave
her French comrades without communications and she hoped also to
rebuild her group. She remained at her post therefore and did the
excellent work which earned her a posthumous Mention in Despatches.
The Gestapo had a full description of her, but knew only her code name
"Madeleine". They deployed considerable forces in their effort to catch
her and so break the last remaining link with London. After 3 months
she was betrayed to the Gestapo and taken to their H.Q. in the Avenue
Foch. The Gestapo had found her codes and messages and were now in a
position to work back to London. They asked her to co-operate, but she
refused and gave them no information of any kind. She was imprisoned in
one of the cells on the 5th floor of the Gestapo H.Q. and remained
there for several weeks during which time she made two unsuccessful
attempts at escape. She was asked to sign a declaration that she would
make no further attempts but she refused and the Chief of the Gestapo
obtained permission from Berlin to send her to Germany for "safe
custody". She was the first agent to be sent to Germany.
Assistant Section Officer INAYAT-KHAN was sent to Karlsruhe in
November; 1943, and then to Pforsheim where her cell was apart from the
main prison. She was considered to be a particularly dangerous and
unco-operative prisoner. The Director of the prison has also been
interrogated and has confirmed that Assistant Section Officer
INAYAT-KHAN, when nterrogated by the Karlsruhe Gestapo, refused to give
any information whatsoever, either as to her work or her colleagues
She was taken with three others to Dachau Camp on the 12th September,
1944. On arrival, she was taken to the crematorium and shot. Assistant
Section Officer INAYAT-KHAN displayed the most conspicuous courage,
both moral and physical over a period of more than 12 months.
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