"September 1942 and is sent to France. She travels to Cannes, where she is met by Captain Peter Churchill, her superior. She also meets ""Arnauld"" (Adolphe Rabinovitch), another agent. Her first assignment is to go to Marseilles to pick up plans for the docks there. Barely warned in time of a raid organized by Abwehr ""Oberst"" ""Henri"" (Hugo Bleicher), Odette, Peter and Arnauld are forced to relocate to St. Jorioz, where they rendezvous with Jacques. Learning of the Maquis, Peter requests arms, medicines, etc. for them. He is then recalled to London. A large airdrop of supplies is arranged. Later,"
"Odette (1950 film) Odette is a 1950 British war film based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette Sansom, who was captured by the Germans in 1943, condemned to death and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp to be executed. However, against all odds she survived the war and testified against the prison guards at the Hamburg Ravensbrück trials. She was awarded the George Cross in 1946; the first woman ever to receive the award, and the only woman who has been awarded it while still alive. Anna Neagle plays Odette Sansom and Trevor Howard plays Peter"
"operator, and through him to all 'underground' men and women of his supreme caliber who died, as they lived, in solitude. Their feats are legendary and beyond all military awards."" In the 1950 British film ""Odette"" he is played by Peter Ustinov. Adolphe Rabinovitch Adolphe Rabinovitch (27 May 1918 – 1944), also known as Alec Rabinovitch, was a Special Operations Executive officer in France during the Second World War. He rose to the rank of captain. Born to a family of Jewish extraction in Russia and raised in Egypt, he studied in Paris and lived in the United States before"
"wounded in a gun battle that lasted seventy five minutes, Jatin died the next day in the town of Balasore. Oren's true identity was never disclosed by Beckett. Oren (spy) Oren was the codename assigned to a Baltic-German double agent in South-East Asia by British Intelligence during World War I. Although his true identity is unknown, he is believed to be a man of Swedish descent. Author Nigel West states that he was a Baltic German. ""Oren's"" intelligence passed on to the British Consul in Batavia, W.E. Beckett along with the intelligence passed on by another German agent Vincent Kraft,"
"Eric Pohlmann Eric Pohlmann (; 18 July 1913 – 25 July 1979) was an Austrian theatre, film and television character actor who worked mostly in Britain. Born Erich Pollak in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, he was a classically trained actor who studied under the renowned director Max Reinhardt. He appeared at the Raimund Theater, and supplemented his income by working as an entertainer in a bar. In 1939, he followed his fiancée and later wife, Jewish actress Lieselotte Goettinger (best known in the UK for playing the concentration camp guard in the war films, ""Odette"" and ""Carve Her Name With Pride""), into"
"Odette Keun Odette Zoé Keun (Pera, 10 September 1888 – Worthing, 1978) was a Dutch adventurer, journalist and writer, who traveled extensively in the Caucasus and the early Soviet Union. Keun was the daughter of Gustave Henri Keun, at the time first dragoman and secretary of the Dutch consulate in the Ottoman Empire, and his second wife, Helene Lauro, who was of Italian/Greek ancestry. When her father died in 1902, the family was left in relatively impoverished state. She became rebellious and her mother sent her to a Ursuline boarding school in the Netherlands. After three years she had decided"
"Oren (spy) Oren was the codename assigned to a Baltic-German double agent in South-East Asia by British Intelligence during World War I. Although his true identity is unknown, he is believed to be a man of Swedish descent. Author Nigel West states that he was a Baltic German. ""Oren's"" intelligence passed on to the British Consul in Batavia, W.E. Beckett along with the intelligence passed on by another German agent Vincent Kraft, was instrumental in uncovering parts of the Hindu–German Conspiracy, especially the plans to ship arms to India on board the in June 1915. ""Oren"" also passed on information"
"Marguerite Addy Marguerite ""Madge"" Nuttall Addy (also known under her married names as Marguerite Lightfoot, Marguerite Holst and Marguerite Hansen) (18 February 1904–1970) was a British women who worked as a nurse during the Spanish Civil War and as a spy during World War II. She was born, one of five children, in Rusholme, Manchester. In 1930 she married Arthur W Lightfoot in Manchester and is believed to have worked in a hairdressing business in the Chorlton area. She was also a registered nurse. In 1937 she arrived in Spain during the Spanish Civil War and worked with the International"
"that the film portrays ""a pretty punk secret agent"" who ""lacks the wit or caution to avoid a most obvious trap that is set for her"" by Henri. Crowther wrote that ""the point of the picture, so far as we can see, is to get Miss Neagle into prison, as quickly as possible, so she can suffer elaborately. And this she does, like the stalwart and noble lady-actress that she is. For the rest of the picture, Miss Neagle is tortured—and so are we."" Odette (1950 film) Odette is a 1950 British war film based on the true story of"
"2004. Odette Keun Odette Zoé Keun (Pera, 10 September 1888 – Worthing, 1978) was a Dutch adventurer, journalist and writer, who traveled extensively in the Caucasus and the early Soviet Union. Keun was the daughter of Gustave Henri Keun, at the time first dragoman and secretary of the Dutch consulate in the Ottoman Empire, and his second wife, Helene Lauro, who was of Italian/Greek ancestry. When her father died in 1902, the family was left in relatively impoverished state. She became rebellious and her mother sent her to a Ursuline boarding school in the Netherlands. After three years she had"
"the night of 18/19 March 1944. Her field name was ""Odette"". She was parachuted into France with Gonzague Saint Geniès, a French organizer (field name: ""Lucien""). They were dropped into South West France, close to the village of Gabarret. The local resistance were working for George Starr's network named ""Wheelwright"". They hid them for a few days, then she made her own way across France, her wireless equipment travelling separately, to Jura in Eastern France, where she worked for four months as the wireless operator to the Scholar circuit. Her cover story was that she was ""Mademoiselle Yvonne Bernier"", a"
"1931, moving with him to Britain. The couple had three daughters: Françoise, Lily and Marianne. Mr Sansom joined the army at the beginning of the Second World War, and Odette Sansom and the children moved to Somerset for their safety. In the spring of 1942, the Admiralty appealed for postcards or family photographs taken on the French coastline for possible war use. Hearing the broadcast, Sansom wrote that she had photographs taken around Boulogne, but she mistakenly sent her letter to the War Office instead of the Admiralty. That brought her to the attention of Colonel Maurice Buckmaster's Special Operations"
"Jean Overton Fuller Jean Overton Fuller (7 March 1915 – 8 April 2009) was a British author best known for her book ""Madeleine"", the story of Noor Inayat Khan, an Allied SOE agent during the Second World War. Fuller was born in England on 7 March 1915, the posthumous and only child of an Indian Army officer. Brought up to think for herself by her mother, who was an artist, and a grandfather who was a retired Army doctor she early developed a wide field of interests. Following a short-lived career as a repertory actress she studied phonetics, linguistics and"
"the title Baroness Ryder of Warsaw in honour of these operations. Secret Intelligence Service member Krystyna Skarbek (""nom de guerre"" Christine Granville) was a founder member of SOE and helped establish a cell of Polish spies in Central Europe. She ran several operations in Poland, Egypt, Hungary (with Andrzej Kowerski) and France, often using the staunchly anti-Nazi Polish expatriate community as a secure international network. Non-official cover agents Elzbieta Zawacka and Jan Nowak-Jezioranski perfected the Gibraltar courier route out of occupied Europe. Maciej Kalenkiewicz was parachuted into occupied Poland, only to be killed by the Soviets. A Polish agent was"
"Investigations Departments and testified against his former captors. On 12 May 1945, Churchill was flown back to England in the personal aircraft of Air Marshal Garrow. Odette was sent to Ravensbrück, where she endured terrible torture, but revealed nothing to her captors. In the 1950 film ""Odette"", which recounted his wartime exploits, Churchill was played by Trevor Howard and Anna Neagle played the title role. Peter Churchill and Odette Sansom were married in London in 1947, but divorced in 1956. Churchill continued to live in France after the war, settling in Le Rouret near Cannes, where he worked in real"
"when she did confirm that Sonia Olschanezky had been murdered at Natzweiler-Struthof, she failed to pass the information to Sonia's family. Atkins was demobilised in 1947, and although nominated for an MBE, was not awarded a decoration in the postwar honours lists. She went to work for UNESCO's Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges, as office manager from 1948, and director from 1952. She took early retirement in 1961, and retired to Winchelsea in East Sussex In 1950 Atkins was an advisor on the film ""Odette"", about Odette Sansom (by then the wife of Peter Churchill), and in 1958"
"for Women"", Little, Brown, 2015 Helm, Sarah, ""A Life in Secrets: The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE"", Little, Brown, 2005 Binney, Maurice, ""The Women Who Lived for Danger, The Women Agents of SOE in the Second World War"", Hodder and Stoughton, 2002 Yvonne Rudellat Yvonne Claire Rudellat MBE, Croix de Guerre, (née Cerneau, 11 January 1897 – 23 or 24 April 1945) was a member of the French Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II and was the first female SOE-trained agent to go to France. After working with the Resistance"
"Eileen Nearne Eileen Mary ""Didi"" Nearne MBE, Croix de Guerre (15 March 1921 – 2 September 2010 (date body found)) was a member of the UK's Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. She served in occupied France as a radio operator under the codename ""Rose"". (French Resistance operative Andree Peel is also known as ""Agent Rose"".) Born in 1921 in London to an English father, John Nearne, and Spanish mother, Marie de Plazoala, she was the youngest of four children. Her elder sister, Jacqueline Nearne, and one of her two brothers, Francis, would also become SOE operatives. In"
"John Ford, actor Sterling Hayden, author Stephen Vincent Benet, and Eve Curie, daughter of the scientists Marie and Pierre Curie. Other OSS recruits included poet Archibald MacLeish, banker Paul Mellon, Alfred du Pont, Julia Child, psychologist Carl Jung (who helped with the effort to analyze the psyches of Hitler and other Nazi leaders), author Walter Lord, and members of the Auchincloss and Vanderbilt families. There were so many aristocrats in the agency that the joke went around that OSS stood for ""Oh So Social"". In 1942, the COI ceased being a White House operation and was placed under the aegis"
"estate, and lived there until his death in 1972. Peter Churchill Peter Morland Churchill, (14 January 1909 – 1 May 1972) was a British Special Operations Executive (SOE) officer in France during the Second World War. His wartime operations, which resulted in his capture and imprisonment in German concentration camps, and his subsequent marriage to fellow SOE officer, Odette Samson, received considerable attention after the war and after, including a 1950 film. Churchill's father was William Algernon Churchill (1865–1947), a British Consul who served in Mozambique, Amsterdam, Pará in Brazil, Stockholm, Milan, Palermo, and Algiers. His father was also an"
"Yvonne Baseden Yvonne Jeanne de Vibraye Baseden MBE (20 January 1922 – 28 October 2017), later known as Yvonne Burney, was one of approximately fifty female Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents. She was born in Rue Violet, Paris. Baseden's father was a World War I pilot in the Royal Flying Corps. He crash-landed in France at the home of the Comte de Vibraye, where he was invited by the Comtesse to have dinner. Whilst at the dinner, he met and fell in love with the daughter of the Comte and Comtesse. The couple went on to marry and lived in"
"Service Committee, which added offices in Geneva and Paris later in the war. In Lisbon, she oversaw a relief program to sustain Jewish refugees who were stranded in Portugal in ‘’residence force’’ as they awaited opportunities to emigrate. In 1942, she accepted a major role with the Office of Strategic Services to help pass information to the OSS and to recruit Spanish and other refugees to participate in various missions. Her code name was Cornette and she reported to OSS officers in Lisbon, London and New York. She was said to have been one of the few people in continental"
"Italy, according to BBC One's program ""Heir Hunters""; series 6, episode 1. Eileen Nearne Eileen Mary ""Didi"" Nearne MBE, Croix de Guerre (15 March 1921 – 2 September 2010 (date body found)) was a member of the UK's Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. She served in occupied France as a radio operator under the codename ""Rose"". (French Resistance operative Andree Peel is also known as ""Agent Rose"".) Born in 1921 in London to an English father, John Nearne, and Spanish mother, Marie de Plazoala, she was the youngest of four children. Her elder sister, Jacqueline Nearne, and"
"memorial committee that Olschanezky was not eligible to be noted on the memorial as she was a locally recruited agent, not commissioned in the British armed forces. Nor was this German-born Jew honoured by the British or French governments with any medals or citations, despite her heroic exploits on behalf of these two nations. A later memorial, the SOE Agents Memorial in Lambeth Palace Road, London, is dedicated to all SOE agents but does not list individual names, so is considered to include people like Olschanezky. Olschanezky is specifically commemorated with a plaque, along with the names of Noor Inayat"
"Kitty Harris Kitty Harris (25 May 1899 – 1966) was a Soviet secret agent and ""long-time special courier of the OGPU-NKVD foreign intelligence during the 1930s and 1940s."" Harris was only identitied in 2001 when her code name ""Ada"" or ""Aida"" was found in declassified files from the Venona Project. This was a counterintelligence program initiated by the United States Army's Signal Intelligence Service (later the National Security Agency) that ran from February 1, 1943 until October 1, 1980. Catherine Harris was born to a poor Polish Jewish family in London, England in 1899. Her father was a shoemaker from"
"Yvonne Rudellat Yvonne Claire Rudellat MBE, Croix de Guerre, (née Cerneau, 11 January 1897 – 23 or 24 April 1945) was a member of the French Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II and was the first female SOE-trained agent to go to France. After working with the Resistance for a year she was captured and died in Bergen-Belsen just after its liberation by the Allies. Yvonne Rudellat was born Yvonne Claire Cerneau on 11 January 1897 at Maisons-Lafitte, near Paris, France. She was the second youngest of ten children. Her eight older siblings had died"
"on the Casablanca war memorial and on the memorial of Saint-Ouen (Loir-et-Cher) where she is buried in the cemetery. It is also included in the list of names on the Tempsford Memorial in Bedfordshire, which honours the women who served as secret agents in occupied Europe. A street in her home town of Pornic is named after her. Evelyne Clopet Evelyne Claire Clopet (14 February 1922 – 10 August 1944) was a French heroine of the resistance in World War II. She was born in Pornic, France, the daughter of a Merchant Navy captain later based in Capablanca. At the"
"Arthur Owens Arthur Graham Owens, later known as Arthur Graham White (14 April 1899 – 24 December 1957), was a Welsh double agent for the Allies during the Second World War. He was working for MI5 while appearing to the Abwehr (the German intelligence agency) to be one of their agents. Owens was known to MI5 by the codename SNOW, which was chosen as it is a partial anagram of his last name. Owens ran a company that made batteries for ships. As such, he was a civilian contractor for the Royal Navy and also had regular contact with the"
"in the SOE preferred resistance groups in Yugoslavia, Italy and Greece be armed rather than French ones. On 16 April 1943, the SOE agent Odette Sansom was arrested with her fellow SOE agent and lover Peter Churchill by the Abwehr Captain Hugo Bleicher. After her arrest, Sansom was tortured for several months, which she recounted in the 1949 book ""Odette: The Story of a British Agent."" She refused to talk. Sansom recalled: On 26 May 1943, in Paris, Moulin chaired a secret meeting attended by representatives of the main resistance groups to form the CNR (""Conseil National de la Résistence""-National"
"in 1998 at the age of 75. Anne-Marie Walters Anne-Marie Walters MBE (16 March 1923 – 3 October 1998) was a WAAF officer recruited into the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War. Her code name was ""Paulette"". Walters was born in Geneva of an English father, F.P. Walters, who had been Deputy Secretary-General of the League of Nations, and a French mother. The family left Switzerland for England after the outbreak of the war and Walters initially joined the WAAF in 1941 (Service Number 2001920). On 6 July 1943 she was recruited into SOE and during the summer"
"ODESSA The ODESSA is an American codename (from the German: ""Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen"", meaning: Organization of Former SS Members) coined in 1946 for a possible Nazi underground escape plan at the end of World War II by a group of SS officers with the aim of facilitating secret escape routes. The idea has been widely circulated in fictional spy novels and movies, notably Frederick Forsyth's best-selling 1972 thriller ""The Odessa File"". The routes are also called ratlines. The goal was to allow the SS members to escape to Argentina, Brazil, or the Middle East under false passports. This goal"
"film ""The Fly"". Arthur Owens Arthur Graham Owens, later known as Arthur Graham White (14 April 1899 – 24 December 1957), was a Welsh double agent for the Allies during the Second World War. He was working for MI5 while appearing to the Abwehr (the German intelligence agency) to be one of their agents. Owens was known to MI5 by the codename SNOW, which was chosen as it is a partial anagram of his last name. Owens ran a company that made batteries for ships. As such, he was a civilian contractor for the Royal Navy and also had regular"
"the field when she was dropped. Baseden died in October 2017 at the age of 95. Yvonne Baseden Yvonne Jeanne de Vibraye Baseden MBE (20 January 1922 – 28 October 2017), later known as Yvonne Burney, was one of approximately fifty female Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents. She was born in Rue Violet, Paris. Baseden's father was a World War I pilot in the Royal Flying Corps. He crash-landed in France at the home of the Comte de Vibraye, where he was invited by the Comtesse to have dinner. Whilst at the dinner, he met and fell in love with"