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the-seed-Of-europe zforzem a Quelle: madelinecolem Nancy Wake, who has died in London just before her 99th birthday, was a New Zealander brought up in Australia. She became a nurse, a journalist who interviewed Adolf Hitler, a wealthy French socialite, a British agent and a French resistance leader. She led 7,000 guerrilla fighters in battles against the Nazis in the northern Auvergne, just before the D-Day landings in 1944. On one occasion, she strangled an SS sentry with her bare hands. On another, she cycled 500 miles to replace lost codes. In June 1944, she led her fighters in an attack on the Gestapo headquarters at Montlucon in central France Ms Wake was furious the TV series later made about her life] suggested she had had a love affair with one of her fellow fighters. She was too busy killing Nazis for amorous entanglements, she said. Nancy recalled later in life that her parachute had snagged in a tree The French resistance fighter who freed her said he wished all trees bore "such beautiful fruit." Nancy retorted: "Don't give me that French s---."" -"Resistance heroine who led en az Independent (via madelinecoleman) TOO BUSY FIGHTING NAZIS FOR THAT FRENCH ROMANCE S--- I love her (via thewriterchick) #yes #history WVII #ww2 #Nancy Wake #don't give me that French s--- 109.042 Anmerkungen

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That's a thing I really hate nowadays, why should you bother to make place for a love affair when there is no time for this?

Shitty Hollywood norm… even my stepmother asked me "Will there be a love story in it?" talking about one of my writing. No, I don't have to, and that's not the point (even if it's fantasy).

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