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safe houses, switching between them to avoid detection (some safety improvements such as more flexible transmission skeds were introduced only after Beekman was sent to France). Operating from a single static radio post greatly increased the chances of being hunted down by German direction finding (D/F) teams, which were known to prowl the streets of major towns and cities across the country, and it is not clear why Beekman apparently did not use additional hideouts – perhaps it was too difficult to find suitable locations in such a densely populated area, or she might have had technical problems with the wireless sets available.
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area of the source. Beekman and Bieler spent Christmas Eve at the Bourys' house; they listened to the BBC and did their best to be festive. On Christmas Day she made contact with London as usual, but the following week a direction finding van was seen passing the house, an ominous sign that the net was closing in. Beekman moved her set to the Boury house, where she was still living, but on 12 January Camille Boury noticed a man walking along the street, with his collar turned up and apparently listening to earphones. Beekman's radio signal had been traced to their block.
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told her companion of this death sentence. All four had grown very pale and wept; the major asked whether they could protest against the sentence. The Kommandant declared that no protest could be made against the sentence. The major had then asked to see a priest. The camp Kommandant refused this on the grounds that there was no priest in the camp.
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transmission, lying on a divan with her head in a book, apparently unruffled by the possibility of arrest. EugĂšne Cordelette, one of MUSICIAN's lieutenants, later described Bieler and Beekman as being "both of the finest stuff imaginable", but her training should have left her more mindful of security.
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The four prisoners now had to kneel with their heads towards a small mound of earth and were killed by the two SS, one after another by a shot through the back of the neck. During the shooting the two Englishwomen held hands and the two French-women likewise. For three of the prisoners the first shot
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The four prisoners had come from the barrack in the camp, where they had spent the night, into the yard where the shooting was to be done. Here he had announced the death sentence to them. Only the Lagerkommandant and the two SS men had been present. The German-speaking Englishwoman (the major) had
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Beekman's first lodgings were with a long serving résistant and schoolmistress, Mlle Lefevre, but this could only be a temporary stay. At the beginning of October, she moved to the house of Camille Boury, who worked at the Pharmacie Corteel, and lived on the corner of Rue Baudelaire. Odette Gobeaux,
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A Gestapo man named Max Wassmer was in charge of prisoner transports at Karlsruhe and accompanied the women to Dachau. Another Gestapo man named Christian Ott gave a statement to American investigators after the war as to the fate of Beekman and her three companions. Ott was stationed at Karlsruhe
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Beekman's steadfast and fearless approach had proved invaluable to the circuit, but her work was becoming riskier every day. German interception of radio signals had become very efficient by this time, and the regular times of her transmissions was helping her pursuers to gradually narrow down the
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Following her instructions from London, Beekman transmitted using a pre‐arranged schedule (or "sked"), sending messages at specific times and frequencies three times a week. This was standard practice for SOE wireless operators in France, though most would try and set up several sets at different
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Beekman was born Yolande Elsa Maria UnternÀhrer to a Swiss father and an English mother in Paris. As a child, she moved to London and grew up fluent in English, German, and French. Young Yolande had a gentle disposition and liked to draw, so her family expected that she would become a designer or
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in Germany, where she encountered a prisoner named Hedwig MĂŒller (a nurse arrested by the Gestapo in 1944). MĂŒller said after the war that Beekman "didn't leave her cell much as she suffered badly with her legs." She was confined there until September 1944, sharing a cell with Elise Johe (a
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Beekman began quietly visiting Gobeaux's house in Rue de la FĂšre, letting herself in with her own key during the day, placing her set on a small table and passing the long aerial out through the window above. Interviewed after the war, Gobeaux remembered Beekman often waiting for the next
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Beekman immediately packed up her set and moved again, this time to the Café Moulin Brulé, a lonely safe house on the north eastern edge of the city, on the northern bank of the canal. Shaken by her narrow escape, she could rely on the café owners sheltering her for the night.
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codenamed "Felix" and "Cat", respectively. The film tells the story of the training of agents for SOE and their operations in France. The training sequences were filmed using the SOE equipment at the training schools at Traigh and Garramor (South Morar) and at
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and volunteered to accompany the four women to Dachau as he wanted to visit his family in Stuttgart on the return journey. Though not present at the execution, Ott told investigators what Wassmer had told him.
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Buckmaster was the head of SOE's F Section, who infamously ignored security checks by captured SOE wireless operators that indicated their capture, resulting in agents being captured and executed.
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several kilometres outside Paris. Again she was interrogated and brutalized repeatedly. In May 1944, Beekman was moved with several other captured SOE agents to the civilian prison for women at
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The next day Biéler arrived at the café to discuss where she should go next, but the Gestapo were now ready to make their haul. Two men walked in and drew revolvers, arresting all those inside.
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After the shooting of these prisoners the Lagerkommandant said to the two SS men that he took a personal interest in the jewellery of the women and that this should be taken into his office.
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Television series that was broadcast between 1987 and 1990 featuring the exploits of the women and, less frequently, the men of SOE, which was renamed the 'Outfit'.
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work for SOE, partly narrated by Wake (Wake was disappointed that the film was changed from an 8-hour resistance story to a 4-hour love story).
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département of France. A later memorial, the SOE Agents Memorial in Lambeth Palace Road (Westminster, London), is dedicated to all SOE agents.
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caused death, but for the German-speaking Englishwoman a second shot had to be fired as she still showed signs of life after the first shot.
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A once classified report compiled in 1946 by a former member of SOE's F Section, Major Robert Bourne-Patterson, who was a planning officer.
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as a SAS operative in Brittany, later becoming Professor of Modern History at Manchester University and an official historian of the SOE).
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Focus on the four female SOE agents (Borrel, Leigh, Olschanezky and Rowden) executed in the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.
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Focus on the four female SOE agents (Borrel, Leigh, Olschanezky and Rowden) executed in the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.
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Detailed look at SOE casualties and selected stories that are representative of the experience of SOE personnel.
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who worked with Boury at the pharmacy, offered Beekman the draughty attic of her house from which to transmit.
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A source of information about the dozens of female agents sent into France during WW2 including Borrel.
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Written by the son of Major Francis Suttill, the Prosper circuit chief executed by the Nazis in 1945.
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Overview of Atkins' activity at SOE (served as Buckmaster's intelligence officer in the F Section).
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Overview of the scores of female SOE agents sent into occupied Europe during WW2 including Borrel.
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SOE In France 1941-1945: An Official Account of the Special Operations Executive's French Circuits
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Beekman's actions were recognized by the government of France with the posthumous awarding of the
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for work in occupied France, officially joining the SOE on 15 February 1943. She trained with
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Shadows in the Fog: The True Story of Major Suttill and the Prosper French Resistance Network
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Lonely Courage: The true story of the SOE heroines who fought to free Nazi-Occupied France
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Documents RAF small aircraft landings in France during WW2 (author was one of the pilots).
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Unearthing Churchill's Secret Army: The Official List of SOE Casualties and Their Stories
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Mk III (SD), the type used for special missions into occupied France during World War II
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Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II
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Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation
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Agents Françaises: French women infiltrated into France during the Second World War
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illustrator. After schooling in England she was sent to a Swiss finishing school.
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Documents the activities of female OSS and SOE agents in France including Borrel.
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Documentary about the SOE "finishing school" on the Beaulieu estate in Hampshire.
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The Women Who Lived for Danger: The Women Agents of SOE in the Second World War
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Shadow Warriors: Daring Missions of World War II by Women of the OSS and SOE
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French film about five SOE female agents and their contribution towards the
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Documents Atkins' post-war search for missing SOE agents including Borrel.
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Separated from Biéler, who was later executed, Beekman was transported to
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Documents the activities of female SOE agents in France including Borrel.
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Secret War: The Story of SOE, Britain's Wartime Sabotage Organization
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They Fought Alone: The True Story of SOE's Agents in Wartime France
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We Landed By Moonlight: The Secret RAF landings in France 1940-1944
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Information about female SOE agents in France including Borrel.
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Filming began in 1944 and starred real-life SOE agents Captain
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Special Operations Executive personnel killed in World War II
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A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII
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Comprehensive coverage of the German occupation of France.
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A Quiet Courage: The story of SOE's women agents in France
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who went undercover in France during the Second World War.
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The full story of the thirty-nine female agents of the
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Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France)
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Mission France: The True History of the Women of SOE
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Paris, France
Dachau concentration camp
Bavaria
Nazi Germany
Special Operations Executive
Ensign
Musician
Second World War
Croix de Guerre
Mentioned in Dispatches
Women's Auxiliary Air Force
Special Operations Executive
Musician
occupied France
wireless operator
Gestapo
Dachau concentration camp
WAAF
W/T operator
SOE
Noor Inayat Khan
Yvonne Cormeau
Jaap Beekman
Netherlands Army
Double Lysander

Westland Lysander
Gustave Biéler
Musician

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