Katherine Mansfield

 

Nancy Wake

Nancy Wake

"Sorry, I didn't kill more Nazis'.

Early life

Nancy was born in Wellingoton, New Zealand in 1912. Her family moved to Australia in 1914. She went to the school in Sydney. When she was 16, she escaped from everything, and she visited New York to work as a nurse. After that, she decided to go to London to be a journalist. After she moved to Paris, she kept working as a journalist. During the war, she joined the resistance movement for Germany. In 1944,  she started to be a spy. She was called the white mouse everyone because she could move quickly and nobody caught her. After the war, she moved to Australia again, and she got marriage. It was the second time to get marriage for her. Then, she wrote the book which title was the white mouse with her husband. Her book was at the top of the bestseller list in 1985.

Later life

Nancy immigrated to Australia to London after her husband died. She asked to scatter her ashes in ventral France before her died. In 2011, she passed away in London, and she aged 98.

Important jobs

1940: She became a spy for French resistance

1944: She became a leader of resistance group(She had a ability to fight with Germany)

1970: she got an award Legion of Honour.

1985: She published her book The white mouse.

Important events

In 1940, she became French spy because her first husband was French industrialist. However, Germany ran down Nancy because she could give strong harm for them. One of the official secret police from Nazi Germany started to tap her telephone or e-mail. She felt scary, but she and her residence group, about 7000 people fought 22000 soldiers. Then, her group killed 1400 people. 

Awards

2004: Commonwealth of Australia

       Medal of Freedom

Summary of video

This video shows about Nancy Wake's life. She was born in  New Zealand and grow up in Australia. Then, she worked in Paris as a journalist. She got marriage in France, and she joined the French resistance. She became a French spy, and she also became the top of resistance group. She said, sorry, I didn't kill more Nazis'. This means she worked very hard during the war, and she made a contribution to France as the same as men. After the war, she got a lot of wards from America, England, and France. 

Contribution to New Zealand

I think she just born in NZ, and live other countries, so she didn't contribute to NZ. However, during the war, she  worked a lot, and she became the leader of French resistance. Therefore, I think she could remove the stereotype, for example, women should do housework or should take care of children.

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