Muslim Woman Defies Nazis in WWII France

Last updated on: September 15, 2014 at 8:20 am by George G. Coe

Muslim Woman Defies Nazis in WWII France 2014-09-15T08:20:42-05:00 George G. Coe

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Here’s a riveting story about a Muslim woman who defied the Nazis in 1940 and paid for it with her life.

Noor Inayat Khan, a French Muslim, fled to England in 1940 when the Germans occupied Paris. There, she joined Churchill’s Special Operations Executive (SOE)as a wireless operator.

Her work supported the French underground. It was very dangerous because Germans often tracked their signals. Telegraphers, like Khan, did not survive longer than six weeks. She was murdered in Dachau in 1944.

She was posthumously awarded the highest civilian and military honors in Britain and France.

Journalist and writer, Michael Wolfe, tells Khan’s story in a new documentary for PBS called Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story. Helen Mirren narrates.

Wolf wrote an excellent story in the Washington Post about Khan called “Meet the Muslims who sacrificed themselves to save Jews and fight Nazis in World War II.”

Wolfe is a Muslim who in 2010 produced an excellent documentary for Nightline about the hajj.

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