Andrée Borrel

Andrée Raymonde Borrel (18 November 1919 – 6 July 1944) was a French woman who served in the French Resistance and as an agent for Britains clandestine Special Operations Executive in 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 allied themselves with resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England.Borrel was a member of the SOEs Prosper circuit in occupied France where she worked as a courier until arrested by the Gestapo. She was subsequently executed at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.

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