Dead Page: The "White Mouse"

NANCY WAKE (1912-2011)

FAMED WORLD WAR II SPY

I'd never heard of her, but am still learning about the war.

Called "White Mouse" for her ability to go undetected and at one point was the Gestapo's most-wanted person, died in London at age 98.

Born in New Zealand and moved to Australia as a toddler. Worked as a journalist in Europe and married French businessman Henri Fiocca, in 1939. Trapped in France after the Germans invaded, she became a Resistance courier and later a saboteur and spy.

She was betrayed, but escaped to London, but her husband tortured and killed by the Gestapo. Later parachuted back into France and became a liaison between London and local Resistance groups.

In later years, she gave an interview saying, "In my opinion, the only good German was a dead German, and the deader the better. I'm only sorry I didn't kill more."

From Reuters.

The Greatest Generation.