Authors: Shrabani Basu
16
Ibid
.
17
Ibid
.
18
Alain Antelme to author, e-mail, October 2004.
19
Gieules’ Personal File, HS9/581/4, National Archives, Kew.
20
Alain Antelme to author, February 2005, by e-mail. As told to him by William Savy.
21
Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
22
Ibid
.
23
Antelme’s Personal File, HS9/42, National Archives, Kew.
24
M.R.D. Foot,
SOE in France
, p. 281.
25
Maurice Southgate (SOEagent and fellow prisoner) who had heard the report in prison. Southgate interrogation dated 13.6.45 in his Personal File HS9/1395/3 National Archives, Kew.
26
Norman Personal File HS9/1110/5, National Archives, Kew.
27
Sworn statements by Josef Goetz and Kieffer in Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
28
Sworn deposition by Josef Goetz in Noor’s PersonalFile, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
29
Jean Overton Fuller,
The German Penetration of SOE
, pp. 74–8.
30
Norman’s Personal File, HS9/1110/5, National Archives, Kew. Letters/memos between Mott, Hazeldine and Buckmaster.
31
Armel Guerne’s Personal File, HS9/631/5, National Archives, Kew.
32
William Stevenson,
A Man called Intrepid
, p. 228.
33
Benoist’s Personal File, HS9/127 Vol. 1, National Archives, Kew.
34
Antelme Personal File, HS9/42 Vol. 1, National Archives, Kew.
35
Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
36
Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
9:
Poste Madeleine
1
Antelme’s Personal File, HS9/42, National Archives, Kew.
2
M.R.D. Foot,
SOE in France
, p. 286.
3
Robert Gieules’ Personal File, HS9/581/4, National Archives, Kew.
4
Colonel Passy, head of Free France’s intelligence and subversion services, lived atthis address after the war.
5
Déricourt’s Personal File, HS9/425, Vol. 5, NationalArchives, Kew.
6
Robert Benoist’s Personal File, HS9/127, National Archives, Kew.
7
Antelme’s Personal File HS9/43, National Archives, Kew.
8
Noor’s Personal File HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
9
Jean Overton Fuller,
Noorun-nisa Inayat Khan
, p. 155.
10
Josef Goetz’s sworn statement in Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
11
Overton Fuller,
Noor-unnisa Inayat Khan
, pp. 157–9.
12
Ibid
., p. 156.
13
Ibid
., pp. 158–9.
14
Ibid
., p. 175. 270
Spy Princess
15
Ibid
., p. 175.
16
Ibid
., p. 171.
17
Ibid
., p. 166.
18
Ibid
., p. 169.
19
Noor’s Personal File, HS 9/836/S. Instructions from HQ Signals Office, 15 August 1943.
20
Leo Marks,
Between Silk and Cyanide
, p. 399.
21
Overton Fuller,
Noor-unnisa Inayat Khan
, pp. 171–2 (as told to Raymonde and Madame Aigrain by Noor).
22
Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew. Kieffer’s sworn statement to Vera Atkins.
23
Overton Fuller,
Noor-unnisa Inayat Khan
, pp. 178–9.
24
Gieules’ Personal File, HS9/581/4, National Archives, Kew.
25
Ibid
.
26
Gieules’ Personal File, HS9/581/4, National Archives, Kew.
27
Overton Fuller,
Noor-unnisa Inayat Khan
, p. 185.
28
Ibid
., p. 195.
29
Danan’s article of 17 February 1957 in the journal
Franc-tireur
. Read out at a ceremony inSuresnes to unveil a plaque to Noor.
30
Overton Fuller,
Noor-unnisa Inayat Khan
, p. 196.
31
Marks,
Between Silk and Cyanide
, p. 399.
32
Werner Ruehl’s sworn statement (November 1946) before Vera Atkins in Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
33
Overton Fuller,
Noor-unnisa Inayat Khan
, Ernest’s account, p. 207.
34
Noor’s Personal File HS9/836/5 – Ruehl’s sworn statement, National Archives, Kew.
10:
Prisoner of the Gestapo
1
Eyewitness report by American journalist William L. Shirer, quoted in Ian Ousby,
Occupation
, p. 65.
2
The wagon-lit was apparently destroyed in an RAF raid on Berlin.
3
M.R.D Foot,
SOE in France
, p. 108.
4
Jean Overton Fuller,
Noorun-nisa Inayat Khan
, p. 208, quoting Vogt. (Vogt knew about Noor’s mother because he had read her photocopied mail provided by Déricourt.)
5
Norman’s Personal File, HS9/1110/5, National Archives, Kew.
6
Overton Fuller,
Noor-unnisa Inayat Khan
, p. 211.
7
Noor’s Personal File HS9/836/5, Sworn statement of Ernest Vogt, National Archives, Kew.
8
Sworn statement by Josef Goetz in Vera Atkins’ Personal File, HS9/59/2, National Archives, Kew.
9
Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
10
Leo Marks,
Between Silk and Cyanide
, p. 399 and Foot,
SOE in France
, p. 301. Conversation between Marks and Foot.
11
Overton Fuller,
Noor-unnisa Inayat Khan
, p. 216.
12
Noor’s Personal File HS9/836/S. Kieffer’s sworn statement on Captain John Starr.
13
Overton Fuller,
Noor-unnisa Inayat Khan
, p. 240.
14
Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5. Kieffer’s sworn statement on John Starr.
15
Noor’s personal file HS9/836/S. Deposition on oath of Wilhelm Krauss, Governor of Pforzheim prison, sworn before a War Crimes Investigation Unit of 6.11.46.
16
Letter to Hidayat from Yolande Lagrave, fellow prisoner in Pforzheim, April 1982.
17
Krauss’s sworn statement in Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
18
Overton Fuller,
Noor-unnisa Inayat Khan
, p. 244.
19
Note in Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
20
Marks,
Between Silk and Cyanide
, p. 511.
21
Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5. Yolande Lagrave’s letter to War Office, National Archives, Kew.
22
Yolande Lagrave’s statement to the War Crimes Investigation Team, Bordeaux, 26 January 1947.
23
Statement of Yolande Lagrave to War Crimes investigation team, Bordeaux, 26 January 1947.
24
Letter from Marcel Schubert, 11 July 1947. WO/309/282 National Archives, Kew.
25
Sworn statement by Goetz in Vera Atkins PersonalFile, HS9/59/2, National Archives, Kew.
26
Marks,
Between Silk and Cyanide
, p. 416.
27
Yolande Lagrave’s sworn statement to the War Crimes Investigation Team at Bordeaux, 26 January 1947.
28
Ibid
.
29
Guérisse earned a George Cross. He took charge of Dachau when the SD ran away and handed it over to the Americans.
30
Sworn statement by Josef Gmeiner in Vera Atkins’ Personal File, HS9/59/2, National Archives, Kew.
31
Ott’s deposition 27/5/46. WO/309/282, National Archives, Kew.
32
Sarah Helm,
A Life in Secrets
, pp. 328, 417.
33
Ott’s deposition 16/2/48. WO/309/282, National Archives, Kew.
34
Foot,
SOE in France
, p. 373.
Aftermath
1
Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
2
Ibid
.
3
Ibid
.
4
Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
5
Jean Overton Fuller,
Noorun-nisa Inayat Khan
, p. 253.
6
Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
7
Vilayat to author, June 2003, and Overton Fuller,
Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan
, p. 216. 2003.
8
Vilayat to author, June
9
M.R.D. Foot to author, as told to him by Leo Marks.
10
Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
11
Sworn statement by Goetz in Déricourt’s Personal File, HS9/422. Also sworn statement by Goetz in Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
12
Sworn statement by Goetz. Denunciation by Henri Frager (Louba) in Déricourt’s Personal File, HS9/422, National Archives, Kew.
13
M.R.D. Foot,
SOE in France
, p. 307.
14
Overton Fuller,
Noor-unnisa Inayat Khan
, p. 216.
15
Goetz interrogation in Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
16
Kieffer interrogation in Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
17
Hidayat to author.
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