Women Spies. [theatlantic.com] Just finished an amazing story about how tough women can be..
” Scores of agents were arrested in successive waves. Among them were women tortured by Klaus Barbie, the “Butcher of Lyon,” who burned their breasts with cigarettes. “In my network, no woman ever faltered, even under the most extreme kinds of torture,” Fourcade later remembered. “I owed my freedom to many who were questioned until they lost consciousness, but never revealed my whereabouts, even when they knew exactly where I was.” “Some ended up in Ravensbrück, the women’s concentration camp. Some were poisoned, others shot. Odette Sansom, one of the operatives featured in Rose’s D-Day Girls and the subject of a biography by Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise, survived being burned and having her toenails pulled out. She never divulged the information the Germans wanted.”
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I don't know why Barbie wasn't hanged with other Nazis. But the Allies used him for different purposes after the war
TheDoubter
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June 6, 2019
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I love the Atlantic and I'm so glad women are getting their deserved recognition but I'm too squeamish to read about cigarettes on breasts.
Lorajay
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June 5, 2019
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It's interesting how quickly men who torture women always think it's "most effective " to attack our breasts.
Idiots.
@KKGator I wonder if women were doing the torturing (which I bet fewer do) which part of men's bodies would they go after?
@JackPedigo I don't know about other women, but I know exactly where I'd go.
Start with the brain, stay with the brain. No physical torture would be necessary, at all.
@KKGator Psychological torture, especially fear, would probably get the most results.
I am currently reading D Day Girls, and it is excellent! I have just reached the scenes wehre Lise had her toenails pulled out. Hard reading at lunchtime.
HippieChick58
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June 5, 2019
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Men are really just big, dumb sacks of muscle and hormones, women are the brains and the courage of our species.
Chevre_Sournois
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June 5, 2019
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you're being too kind.
most men, including your potus are just dumb sacks of shit.
Women are amazingly strong of heart and body. Thanks for sharing this story.
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