anti-faschismus:

This is the story of Niuta Teitelbaum, who was 25 when she died. Niuta, a member of the communist organization Spartakus, studied (or perhaps even completed her undergraduate studies in) history at Warsaw University. She was a courier with both the ZOB and the Communist Gwardia Ludowa (GL) or People’s Guard, and served in a seemingly endless number of missions. In her most famous operation, she killed two Gestapo agents and wounded a third. After the wounded agent was taken to hospital, she disguised herself as a physician, entered the hospital and killed both the Gestapo agent and the police officer who had been guarding him. During the Warsaw Ghetto revolt, she participated in a raid on a German machine-gun position that had been placed atop the ghetto walls. It is said that she once walked into a German command post dressed like a Polish farm girl. She removed the kerchief that had been covering her hair and an SS soldier who was fascinated by her blue eyes and blond braids addressed her, excitedly exclaiming, “Are there other Lorelei like you among your people?!” Niuta took out her pistol and shot the German to death. The Germans hunted her down and, after a long period of time, finally caught her.

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