I posted this in GD but it didn't get any love: "The Woman with a Limp"

[Kingshakabobo]

I hope this forum is appropriate for this story....(P.S. pay no mind to the comments section....some not-so-progressives there....but still a good site)

http://www.damninteresting.com/

The Woman with a Limp
Posted by Jason Bellows on January 14th, 2007 at 10:46 am

In the early 1940s, German secret police agents in Nazi-occupied France were on the lookout for a woman with a wooden leg. She was known only as "the woman with a limp," but the Gestapo's many wanted posters described her as "the most dangerous of all Allied spies," asserting that the Nazis "must find and destroy her." Her name was Virginia Hall.

She became a spy entirely by accident. She was studying abroad and working for the Ambulance Service in France when the Blitzkrieg struck, and she was suddenly in the middle of Vichy-controlled France. Despite having been turned away by the Foreign Service because of her handicap, Miss Hall was able to join the British Special Operations Executive and later the US Office of Strategic Services for her remarkable accomplishments.

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[atommom]

1. This is a great story. I read it on DI, and replied when I saw it here in GD.

But for some reason it didn't attract much attention. I still think her story would make a fantastic movie.