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Josephine Baker – Spy

26th May 202227th May 2022 Ron Meadowcroft

Revealed: The daring wartime exploits of erotic cabaret star Josephine Baker who smuggled Nazi secrets to Winston Churchill in her UNDERWEAR

The black American singer and dancer became a French spy in World War Two for which she was awarded the Medal of the Resistance and the Croix de Guerre. Link to Mail Online

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