British Soe facts
While investigating facts about British Speedway and British Special Forces, I found out little known, but curios details like:
F.F.E. Yeo-Thomas, a British SOE agent, escaped Soviet Russian capture by strangling a guard, dined with infamous Nazis to gather intel, and was subjected to brutal torture by the Gestapo during WWII. Ian Fleming would use Yeo-Thomas as inspiration for his fictional character, James Bond.
how to speak british?
Christopher Lee served in the SOE, a top secret branch of the called the British government known as the "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare"
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 7 of the best facts about British Soe Agents and British Soe Wwii I managed to collect.
what was the british soe?
-
After her husband died during WW2, Violette Szabo joined the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) and assisted a French intelligence circuit to sabotage infrastructure and surveil German activities. She was captured in 1944 and executed Feb 5 1945 at the age of just 23.
-
During WW2 a group of Polish saboteurs manged to blow up a section of mainline railway track between London-Cambridge. They were being trained by the British SOE and it was an accident.
-
While leading German forces in occupied Crete in April 1944, General Kreipe was abducted by British SOE officers, Patrick Leigh Fermor and William Stanley Moss, with the support of the Cretan resistance. General Kreipe met his kidnappers one more time in 1972 on a Greek TV show.
-
In WWII, Churchill set up a domestic version of the SOE called "Auxiliary Units" - a stay-behind force to fight the Germans as they advanced into British territory.
-
During WWII a joint British SOE and Cretan Resistance team kidnapped a German General on the Greek island of Crete; evaded a massive manhunt for 18 days, including climbing over Mount Ida; and extracted him by boat just 1 mile from a German outpost
