The White Rabbit aka Wing Commander F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas but Tommy for short, of the Special Operations Executive was in France during the Second World War until he was captured. He got out of Buchenwald alive, which was a major achievement. His book tells us:-
Page 10 et seq.
There were not so many volunteers after the First World War;
too many men were let down by politicians or had fathers betrayed by
Lloyd George et al. Politicians, priests and 'intellectuals' worked hard to
destroy patriotism.
Page 37
French resistance outfits included:-
Ceux de la Libération
Organisation civile et militaire
Ceux de la Résistance
Libération
Front National - a communist front operation
Page 39
Tommy made his first contact with the communists
Page 40
Ginsburger [ a Jew? ] was communist & pushy, a front man for les
Francs-Tireurs
et Partisans, a communist operation.
The White Rabbit ex Amazon
The harrowing, and inspiring, story of the capture of one of Britain's top SOE agents in World War Two, his refusal to crack under the most horrific torture, and his final imprisonment in a concentration camp.'The White Rabbit' was the code name of Wing Commander F.F.E. Yeo-Thomas when he parachuted into France in 1942 as a member of the Special Operations Executive with the Resistance. For the next eighteen months he was responsible for organising all the separate factions of the French Resistance into one combined 'secret army'. On three separate missions into occupied France he met with the heads of Resistance movements all over the country, and he spoke personally with Winston Churchill in order to ensure they were properly supplied.
His capture by the Gestapo in March 1944 was therefore a terrible blow for the Resistance movement. For months he was submitted to the most horrific torture in an attempt to get him to spill his unparalleled knowledge of the Resistance, but he refused to crack. Finally he was sentenced to death, and sent to Buchenwald, one of the most infamous German concentration camps. The story of his endurance, and survival, is an inspiring study in the triumph of the human spirit over the most terrible adversity.
The White Rabbit ex Wiki
F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas was the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent, "The White Rabbit" of World War II. He was given responsibilities by the British government in Occupied and Vichy France because he had lived in France during the interwar years and was fluent in French.[1]An assignment required Yeo-Thomas to be parachuted into France. Shortly after his arrival he was betrayed and captured by the Gestapo at the Passy metro station in Paris.
The Gestapo took him to their headquarters in the Avenue Foch, and he was subjected to brutal torture, including beatings, electrical shocks to the genitals, psychological gameplaying, sleep deprivation, and repeated submersion in ice-cold water—to the point that artificial respiration was sometimes required.
After the interrogations and torture, he was moved to Fresnes prison. After he made two failed attempts to escape he was transferred first to Compiègne prison and then to Buchenwald concentration camp. Within these various detention camps he attempted to organize resistance.
Late in the war, he briefly escaped from Buchenwald and, on his recapture, was able to pass himself off as a French national and sent to Marienburg,[2] Stalag XX-B,[3] a "better" camp, where the Nazis sent enlisted Frenchmen, instead of back to Buchenwald. It is reasonable to conclude that his chances of surviving the remainder of the war at Buchenwald were low.
After the war he resumed his life in France.[4]
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