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Gilbert Norman
1915–1944
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- spy
Gilbert Maurice Norman (7 April 1915 â 6 September 1944) , code name Archambaud, was an agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in France during World War II.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Mauthausen concentration campDates unknown
Biography
Gilbert Maurice Norman (7 April 1915 â 6 September 1944) , code name Archambaud, was an agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in France during World War II. SOE was a British organisation formed in 1940 to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in German-occupied Europe and to aid local resistance movements to the occupation. Norman was a wireless operator and second in command of Prosper, SOE's most important network in France. Norman parachuted into France in November 1942. He was captured in Paris by the Germans in June 1943 and executed in September 1944. After his capture, Norman is alleged to have made an agreement with their German captors to assist them in the dismantling of Prosper. The agreement resulted in the capture of many SOE agents, French collaborators, and the confiscation of tons of military equipment which the British had provided to the French resistance. In exchange, the Germans agreed that captured agents would not be executed. The agreement was apparently honored in France, but most of the agents were transferred to German concentration camps in 1944 and were executed in that year and early 1945.
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