Nancy wake was born in 1912 in New Zealand, then the family moved to Australia. But soon after the father left, Nancy grew up with other five siblings in poverty. That's why she started working as very young, she went to Sydney at, where she worked as a nurse. She moved to London in years. Two years later in Paris, she met a freelance journalist, which inspired her to write herself in the papers. In 1933, she was sent to work in Vienna, where she should also write about the new German Chancellor. But here she also witnessed the persecution of the Jews. Horrified by these events, she promised to use every opportunity to stand up to this regime. Later, she married a millionaire and francouzsého industrialist, Henri Edmond Fiocca. After the assault of France, the husband was taken, and she immediately entered the recruitment office as a nurse. She was stationed in Belgium where the truck was carrying wounded. Then she refused to evacuate and stayed in France. She used her husband's influence and her husband's property and hid the downed pilots of the RAF, joined the escape group of captain ian garrowa. In the house she bought near Marseille, she spent the first three years taking care of downed pilots, getting them fake dokumennty, Id Cards, new clothes, and then drove them across the pyrenees to Spain in trucks, uplácející guards with cash deposits. However, her operation remains unknown, but the German authorities have only known her as a "White Mouse" at the end of the day, at the end of 5 million francs, with one of the most wanted people by the gestapo. When the gestapo got a lead in 1943, she was warned and tried to escape through the Pyrenees. However, the Germans were caught in Toulouse and taken to the gestapo of the gestapo. She was tortured here for four days. She didn't tell them anything, not even her real name. She made up a story about wanting to run away to her lover and let her go. A few weeks later, she managed to drive a pyrenejemi in the back of a coal truck and sailed from Spain to London. But her husband wasn't so lucky, he was a Nazi. In London, Nancy was assigned to special executive executive. Here was trained in espionage, sabotage, self-Defense, and shooting, so that in April 1944, they would parachute into a parachute over central France, with a radio and a large amount of cash Her subsequent encounter with one of the groups of the french rural resistance movement - maquis - did not end well, tried to rob her and kill her, but managed to escape. On Foot, she went through the middle of France and then merged with another resistance group. In less than two months, it has been prepared for the captain responsible for the profit and distribution of weapons, ammunition and communication equipment for around 7 000 maquis. By the end of 1944, she was leading a group of fighters who, before and after d-day, engaged in bold guerilla attacks on German supply columns, railway stations and communications deep behind enemy lines. She performed sabotage in factories, ruined the tracks, and performed countless spy missions against the enemy. In one of the attacks, the an was killed by a German guard. The purpose of her attack was the gestapo headquarters in French Montlucon, shooting and grenades killed here on 38 German police officers. Nancy was also questioned in the event of the capture of enemy agents and decide their executions. And she did a really nice piece. One day, her group was attacked by members of the 2. SS Tank Division in a number of about 10.000 men, and their radio in the truck was destroyed in the bombing of a So she embarked on a path for help and a new walkie-Talkie, during which on the bicycle and then on the horse she traveled to 500 miles, over several German control points. During the next battle with the SS, the commander was killed, and then she took over with two American officers in command and coordinated a strategic retreat. From April 1944 to the end of the war, her group of 7.000 and more maquis fought with 22.000 German soldiers, losing only 100 men. After the war, the most decorated allied woman became the most. Received the order of Australia, novozélanský rsa in gold, British defence medal, King George Medal and war medal 1939-1945, American medal of freedom, French medal de la resistance, French order of the Honorable Legion and three croix de guerres, a star from the community Nations. After the war, she worked for the news department of the British Ministry of aviation, connected to embassies in Paris and Prague. Nancy wake then sold her medal and had enough money for the rest of her life. She also devoted herself to politics and published autobiography of the white mouse. She died at the age of 98 At her request, her ashes were scattered in central France, near montlucon.
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