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Aug 8, 2024 · From directly below the fort’s platform, Krystyna once again used her loudhailer to speak with the 63 pre-briefed Poles among the 150 officers at the garrison.
Speaking in Polish and revealing her identity, she talked to the 63 Polish soldiers - Volksdeutsche, i.e., Poles who had signed the Nazi Volksliste as those whose language and culture had German origins but who did not hold German citizenship - among the defenders, and told them, when the order was given by resistance forces, to desert and ...
Krystyna Skarbek (aka Christine Granville) died 67 years ago, on June 15th 1952. She was the Polish Countess and the longest serving female special agent of the Second World War. The vital intelligence she smuggled across borders prompted Churchill to remark she was his favourite spy.
May 11, 2018 · On the given signal, the conscripted Poles at the garrison deserted, first rendering the heavy weapons useless by removing the breech-block firing pins, and then bringing as many mortars and machine-guns with them as they could carry.
Oct 28, 2013 · Once in occupied Warsaw, however, Krystyna did join a fiercely independent Polish resistance group: the Musketeers. Unfortunately they would later be disbanded in disgrace; their leader assassinated for having entered into talks with the Nazis regarding the Russian threat.
With no possibility of getting involved in the war on the Polish side, Krystyna decided to join Britain. Thanks to her facility in making friends she managed to get in touch with Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) officers, who recruited her as a British agent.
Aug 9, 2024 · Krystyna had learnt from the French resistance that the German fort at the Col-deLarche pass was largely manned by conscripted Polish troops, many taken from forced labour camps and on the strength of threats to their families.
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