| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (5 min. 1 sec.) ; 30020849 bytes |
| Summary |
This series of short documentaries presents biographical accounts of Australian personalities, both past and present, drawn from various facets of Australian life. Nancy Wake is one of the most decorated women of World War II. She was a journalist working in Paris when the war broke out. Horrified by Germany_s aggression, she joined the French resistance smuggling allied soldiers out of occupied France. The German Gestapo called her The White Mouse because they could not catch her |
| Event |
Broadcast 2010-06-02 at 10:55:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: G |
| Subject |
Underground movements, War.
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Wake, Nancy, 1912-2011.
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World War (1939-1945)
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Australia.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Wake, Nancy, contributor
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