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Me, for example, and there are not many who achieved something like that,

I had connection to my party leader exiled in London from 1941 until 1945.

Coded mail went to Bergen in Norway.

There sat a comrade of ours as a ’Blitzmädchen’, she had connection to the partisans.

They took the mail to Sweden.

In Stockholm was the secretary general of my party

and he established the connection from Stockholm to London via plane.

Until the enquiry came back:

“How is the mood in the population?

Where are places for paratroopers to jump

where to the same time a social background can be found, so they can live and operate safely?”

These sorts of questions came and they were answered.

Later on it worked even faster, because a comrade,

who had emigrated to London with her parents, got a new identity

and was infiltrated into Denmark where she got married to a Danish member of the resistance.

She applied at the German commandant’s office and nobody knew that she spoke Jewish.

She also spoke German, French, English and then she even learned Danish

and after that applied at the German commandant’s office.

Because she was perfect in type writing and shorthand she was taken on immediately.

Because of her capability and her linguistic knowledge it did not take long