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11/8/2020

How Two French Introverts Quietly Fought the Nazis

by Jeffrey H. Jackson

Two introverted French Lesbian artists conducted a campaign of subversion against the Nazis occupying the Island of Jersey that a trial judge called "more dangerous than soldiers." A new book explains how.