Madeleine Zoe Damerment was a French agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive organization during World War II. The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and
Damerment during World War II.
Handley Page Halifax B.III showing the later rectangular fins and Bristol Hercules radial engines.
Post-war report on the efforts to locate Madeleine Damerment. She was identified as an S.O.E. secret agent, so the report was labelled “SECRET” (top of page).
Memorial to Damerment and fellow agents in Dachau
Friedrich Wilhelm Ruppert was an SS-TV Obersturmbannführer in charge of executions at Dachau concentration camp; he was, along with others, responsible for the executions of captured British SOE agent
Madeleine Damerment
…fellow agents Yolande Beekman, Noor Inayat Khan and Eliane Plewman, and at dawn on the following morning, 13 September, the four women were executed by Wilhelm Ruppert. A Gestapo man named Max Wassmer was in charge of prisoner transports at Karlsruhe and accompanied the women to Dachau. Another Gestapo man named…
Ruppert in U.S. custody (1945)
Michael Pellis, a former inmate at Dachau, identifies former SS-Obersturmführer Friedrich Wilhelm Ruppert as the man responsible for selection at Dachau