MNSpy

MNSpy, 1 month ago to random

Is The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare a True Story?

Only partly...

#WW2 #SOE

https://www.cbr.com/the-ministry-of-ungentlemanly-warefare-true-story/

MNSpy, 1 month ago to random

The Welrod was a British bolt action, magazine fed, suppressed pistol devised at the Inter-Services Research Bureau (later Station IX). Welrod is a portmanteau combining “Wel” from Welwyn Garden City (located near Station IX) and “rod," gangland slang for a gun, as a way to obscure its purpose. (1/4)

#WW2 #Spy #Ordnance #SOE #OSS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welrod

MNSpy, 1 month ago to random

Dorothy Thompson, the American journalist who warned the world about Adolf Hitler:

She "mounted a one-woman crusade against the Nazis. She denounced the German government frequently and vigorously in her syndicated column, "On the Record," which ran in 170 newspapers and reached roughly 8 million readers. She also spread her message through regular radio broadcasts for NBC, and a monthly column in Ladies' Home Journal." (1/2)

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/dorothy-thompson-the-journalist-who-warned-the-world-about-adolf-hitler?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

MNSpy, 1 month ago to Canada

CBC Radio host Nahlah Ayed has written a book on the love story of Special Operations Executive agents Sonya (née Butt) and Guy d'Artois. The two agents fell in love during SOE training. The book, The War We Won Apart, will be available 28 May.

#WW2 #SOE #FSection #Canada #Montreal #Quebec #UK

https://www.cbc.ca/books/nahlah-ayed-s-latest-book-tells-the-thrilling-wwii-love-story-of-two-elite-agents-who-risked-it-all-1.7157404

MNSpy, 2 months ago to random

Mar 24, 1944: On this date, the poem The Life That I Have was issued by Special Operations Executive cryptographer Leo Marks to agent Violette Szabo. The poem was made famous by its inclusion in the 1958 movie about Szabo, Carve Her Name with Pride. (1/2)

#Cryptography #WW2 #SOE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_That_I_Have

MNSpy, 2 months ago to random

Mar 24, On this date in 1944, the real ‘Great Escape’ occurred when British Commonwealth POWs escaped from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III. It was immortalized in the HIGHLY fictionalized 1963 film ‘The Great Escape’ (including among other inaccuracies, the role of Americans in the actual escape.) In the movie, Steve McQueen's character was based on Jerry Sage of the Office of Strategic Services.

#WW2 #POW #OSS #RAF

MNSpy, 2 months ago to random

The Man Who Used Nazi Propaganda to Help the Allies Win: An historical yet incredibly relevant discussion of BBC propagandist Sefton Delmer who turned Nazi messaging against them.

#WW2 #Propaganda #antifa

https://time.com/6957547/sefton-delmer-world-war-two-propaganda/

MNSpy, 2 months ago to Netherlands

Jannetje Johanna Schaft was born in 1920 in Haarlem, Netherlands. She became a Dutch Resistance fighter who went by the nom de guerre “Hannie.”

In 1938 she enrolled at the University of Amsterdam to pursue law with a goal of becoming a human rights lawyer. She became friends with fellow students Sonja Frenk & Philine Polak, who were Jews, & became increasingly concerned about the rise in antisemitism. (1/5)

#WW2 #Resistance #antifa #Netherlands #WomensHistoryMonth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannie_Schaft

MNSpy, 2 months ago to random

Mar 10: On this date in 1913, Harriet Tubman died at the age of 90 or 91. She orchestrated the rescue of enslaved people using a network of antislavery activists known as the Underground Railroad, served as a spy and military advisor to Union troops during the Civil War, and was an activist for social justice in the post-war period.

#WomensHistoryMonth #Shero #Slavery #EscapeLine #Spy #CivilWar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman

MNSpy, 2 months ago to random

Indiana Jones by Ruiz Burgos:

"Nazis. I hate these guys."

MNSpy, 3 months ago to Germany

Feb 22: On this date in 1943, members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst were executed in Nazi Germany.

#WW2 #Resistance #antifa #Germany

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXsY-cwIqKs

MNSpy, 3 months ago to random

Black History Month & WW2: The 6888th Central Postal Battalion was the only all Black female battalion to serve overseas during WW2. They faced misogyny and racism, but served with commitment & bravery.

#WW2
#BlackHistoryMonth

https://ringsidereport.com/?p=104931

MNSpy, 3 months ago to random

In The Mood by the Glenn Miller Orchestra.

#WW2 #BigBand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3A4yjTTW_Y&list=RDGMEMTmC-2iNKH_l8gQ1LHo9FeQ&index=3

MNSpy, 3 months ago to Germany

Feb 18: On this date in 1943: Hans Scholl and sister, Sophie Scholl, the leaders of the German youth group Weisse Rose (White Rose), were arrested by the Gestapo, having encouraged nonviolent resistance against the Nazis.

#WW2
#Resistance
#Antifa
#Germany

MNSpy, 3 months ago to France

Feb 15, 1925: On this date, Charlotte Sorkine (Noshpitz) was born in Paris. She joined the French Resistance at age 17. She conveyed groups of Jewish children to the Swiss Border to be rescued, created thousands of false papers, & accompanied young people over the Pyrenees Mountain to join the Allied armies in Spain. (1/2)

#WW2
#France
#Resistance
#Antifa

https://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/charlene-sorkine-unknown-hero-of-the-french-resistance/

MNSpy, 3 months ago to spain

Jan 29, 1919: On this date, Marina Ginestà was born in Toulouse. At age 17, she was photographed in an iconic image from the Spanish Civil War standing on the roof of a hotel in Barcelona. “Dressed in military uniform with the wind in her hair, & armed with a rifle (the first & only time in her life, she later stated), Marina was witness to a historic moment, & instantly became a symbol of the hopefulness of revolution.”

#SpanishCivilWar
#antifa
#Spain
#Shero

https://www.girlmuseum.org/marina-ginesta-rooftop/

MNSpy, 4 months ago to random

Jan 16, 1903: On this date, William Grover-Williams was born. He was a British Grand Prix motor car driver who served in France with the Special Operations Executive. He organized the CHESTNUT circuit near Paris, which would replace the collapsing AUTOGYRO circuit, but with the success of the extensive PROSPER circuit, CHESTNUT became a sleeper cell. Grover-Williams was arrested Aug 1, 1943. He was executed at Sachsenhausen in the Spring of 1945.

#WW2 #SOE #FSection

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Grover-Williams

MNSpy, 4 months ago to LSD

Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, psychedelics, and the weaponization of psychedelics for military intelligence: An interview with Benjamin Breen, author of "Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science.”

#LSD #Psychedelics #WW2 #OSS #MKUltra

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-01-12/margaret-mead-wanted-to-save-the-world-through-lsd-the-government-had-other-ideas

MNSpy, 4 months ago to random

Jan 6, 2021: Just a reminder how close we came... And democracy remains in peril.

#resist

MNSpy, 4 months ago to random

Noor Inayat Khan was born on January 1, 1914 in Moscow to an Indian father and an American mother. She served in the Special Operations Executive using the pseudonym Nora Baker and code-name Madeleine. She was the first British female wireless operator sent to occupied France to assist the French Resistance. She is Britain’s first Muslim war heroine. (1/9)

#WW2 #SOE #FSection #Muslim #Shero

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_Inayat_Khan