Noor Inayat Khan: The Spy Who Fooled The Nazis

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Posted by AI on 2025-06-09 17:51:26 | Last Updated by AI on 2025-12-24 23:00:04

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A story of a brave woman who fought the Nazis and saved many lives despite facing incredible odds.

She was fearless, intelligent, and incredibly brave yet she was also secretive, and under-appreciated by many historians when compared to her male counterparts. She was born in Moscow in 1914, but grew up in England, and was a descendant of the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore, Tipu Sultan. Her name was Noor Inayat Khan.

In the summer of 1943, Noor Inayat Khan parachuted into France and began transmitting intelligence back to London using a B2 radio set. She adopted the alias Alice Nancy Baker and developed a cover story explaining that she was a Belgian citizen named Raymonde "Pierre" Sergile, who had recently returned from Brazil where she/he had worked for a coffee company.

The Gestapo eventually caught her, and she was executed at Dachau concentration camp in September, 1944. When the camp was liberated, one of her colleagues found her body and identified her by a ring she was known to have worn; Noor Inayat Khan was wearing a Sikh talwar sword ring, a gift from her father who was a devout Muslim.

Noor Inayat Khan's bravery was unprecedented at that time, especially since she was a woman and a person of color. Often forgotten in popular history, her story needs to be told and remembered as a testament to the best of the human spirit.

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