The Unbreakable Spy of WW2 | True Life Spy Stories

Ways to support the channel: Become a Member:    / @philipthompson   Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompson Donate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284 Listen to my spy stories on the True Life Spy Stories podcast! 🎙️https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show... She was captured by the Gestapo, tortured with a red-hot iron, and had all ten toenails ripped out with pincers. She said nothing. Sentenced to death twice over, Odette Sansom survived it all to become the most highly decorated woman spy of the Second World War. Recruited by the Special Operations Executive in 1942, Odette worked as a courier for the SPINDLE network in occupied France, moving through German checkpoints with the Gestapo's most feared operative closing in on her circuit. Betrayed, arrested, and interrogated at the Gestapo's Avenue Foch headquarters in Paris, she endured torture and imprisonment at Ravensbrück concentration camp before walking free in the final days of the war, and turning her captor in with her own testimony. This is the true story of Odette Sansom. 📚 Sources & Further Reading (affiliate links): 📕 Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became World War II's Most Highly Decorated Spy by Larry Loftis - https://amzn.to/4bH7DWY 📘 Odette: World War Two's Darling Spy by Penny Starns - https://amzn.to/4xAUCX8 📕 Odette by Jerrard Tickell - https://amzn.to/4gbcEIL #philipthompson #truelifespystories #espionage