Violette Szabo
Also known as Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo
French-British SOE spy
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Hungary
- Active from
- 1936-03-08
- Active to
- 1982-02-26
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Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo, GC (née Bushell; 26 June 1921 – c. 5 February 1945) was a British-French Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during the Second World War and a posthumous recipient of the George Cross. On her second mission into occupied France, Szabo was captured by the German army, interrogated, tortured, and deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany, where she was executed.
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