Andrée Borrel
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Andrée Raymonde Borrel, code named Denise, was a French woman who served in the French Resistance and as an agent for Britain's clandestine Special Operations Executive in World War II. The purpose of
Borrel in 1942 after joining SOE. "A truly dreadful photograph," said author Elizabeth Nicholas, of a "delightful girl."
German troops in Paris (1940).
Royal Victoria Patriotic Building
Armstrong Whitworth Whitley in flight c1940.
Natzweiler-Struthof was a Nazi concentration camp located in the Vosges Mountains close to the villages of Natzweiler and Struthof in the Gau Baden-Alsace of Germany, on territory annexed from France
Andrée Borrel
…and Borrel was an important figure in its leadership. She was arrested by the Gestapo in June 1943. She was subsequently executed in July 1944 at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp. Andrée Borrel was born into a working-class family in Bécon-les-Bruyères, a north-western suburb of Paris, France. She was good at…
Natzweiler-Struthof after liberation
View of Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp after liberation
Gate of Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp after liberation
Border fence at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp