Its people like this that make me wonder what the hell I’ve done with my life.
Noor Inayat Khan was the first female radio operator to infiltrate occupied Paris Despite her spy network collapsing around her, Noor stayed in France for three months, until she was betrayed. What followed in October 1943 was arrest, imprisonment in chains, torture and interrogation. Noor bore it all. She revealed nothing to her captors, not even her real name, the Germans knew her only as Nora Baker, a British spy. When the end came on September 13, 1944 at Dachau concentration camp, it was not swift or painless. Defiant till the last, she shouted “Liberte” as she went down to a bullet fired at the back of her head.
Ooh, I read about her from following Leo Marks’s Wiki entry. It’s so weird to feel so inspired and crushed by humanity at the same time.
Also a badass? Violette Szabo.