In April 1943, Gestapo troopers stormed the office of Hans von Dohnanyi, an agent of the Abwehr, Nazi Germany’s intelligence agency. Von Donanyi had transferred funds illegally to Switzerland in…
Jean de Selys Longchamps was born into Belgian aristocracy in 1912. When Germany invaded Belgium in May of 1940, he was a Baronet, the son of the Baron Raymond Charles…
Born in Wellington, New Zealand on August 30, 1912, Captain Nancy Wake, Resistance leader and Special Operations Executive agent, wasn’t joking when she talked about her lack of fear. Wake was one of New Zealand’s most highly decorated soldiers wi…