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Lilian Rolfe
1914–1945
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- spy
Lilian Vera Rolfe (26 April 1914 â 5 February 1945), code name Nadine, was an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) organisation in France during World War II.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Maison d'arrêt de FresnesDates unknown
- Ravensbrück concentration campDates unknown
Biography
Lilian Vera Rolfe (26 April 1914 â 5 February 1945), code name Nadine, was an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) organisation in France during World War II. The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers, especially Nazi Germany. SOE agents in France allied themselves with French Resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England. Rolfe was a wireless operator for the Historian Network based in Orleans. After four months of work in France, she was captured by the Germans on 31 July 1944. She was executed in Ravensbrück concentration camp in late January 1945.
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