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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 3 months ago

Very early #OnThisDay, 7 Jul 1944 Krystyna Skarbek parachutes into France to work as a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent. The British SOE worked with resistance fighters across German-occupied Europe.

Skarbek had been the first woman to be an SOE agent when she'd previously been sent to Hungary and Poland in 1939-41.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EuropeanHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons

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Krystyna Skarbek, second from right, with a group of male maquis fighters. The maquis are wearing combat gear and berets.

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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social replied · 3 months ago

In France, Skarbek transported information and ammunitions. At one point she successfully bribed an SS officer to release some captured SOE men.

Skarbek survived the war, and adopted the name Christine Granville when she became a British citizen in 1946.

She was murdered by a stalker in 1952.
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Photo taken from an ID card, showing Krystyna Skarbek in a beret.

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