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{{cite thesis}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of April 2024 (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)There was also a moment that we don't see, but one that brought a telling moment in the documentary The White Mouse, shown late at night couple of weeks ago by the ABC. In the closing stages of the Resistance war, the Maquis captured a German agent, a girl. They were reluctant to execute her, simply because she was a woman. "If you won't shoot her, I will," Nancy Wake told them. "The men changed their mind. They weren't going to let me carry out my threat." "But they did organise a proper firing squad. I was having my breakfast. The girl had admitted to me that she was a spy and she was very proud of the fact. I had given her some clothes and showed her where to wash. As she passed me on the way to the firing squad, I said 'I'm very sorry we can't keep you, If we had anywhere to put you we would. But, I'm sorry, you are going to be shot.' "As she passed me, she took all her clothes and spat at me, and then she walked naked to the firing squad shouting 'Sieg Heil!'. She was a dedicated Nazi. Oh, I'd have shot her. God yes, with the greatest of pleasure."
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)The story of an extraordinary woman: Nancy Wake, WWII spy, French Resistance leader and saboteur who was determined to 'bugger up' the NAZIs.
It was perilous work despite her cover as the wife of a respectable businessman. She lived on her sharp wits. "I'd see a German officer on the train or somewhere, sometimes dressed in civvies, but you could pick 'em. So, instead of raising suspicions I'd flirt with them, ask for a light and say my lighter was out of fuel," she recalled. She told how she would get beautifully dressed and hang around making dates with Germans to get information. "A little powder and a little drink on the way, and I'd pass their posts and wink and say, 'Do you want to search me?' God, what a flirtatious little bastard I was."
One operation included an attack on the local Gestapo headquarters in Montluçon, central France, where she requested her ashes be scattered.