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In a similar vein, nobody would notice the old woman sitting at the railway station, knitting away, waiting for a train. In fact, what she was doing was includi
by kitd 4y ago
In a similar vein, nobody would notice the old woman sitting at the railway station, knitting away, waiting for a train. In fact, what she was doing was including coded details into her knitting of train & troop movements, to be passed onto the Resistance at the end of the day.
Lots of brave people contributed to the war effort in surreptitious ways.
- nomagicbullet 4y agoIs this a true story? If so, do you have more details or source to read about?
- kitd 4y agoThis article mentions the practice in WW1 and refers to it being done in WW2: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/knitting-spies-wwi-wwii https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/knitting-spies-wwi-wwi... It also mentions the subject of OP's article too. I have seen an old piece of knitting from WW2 used to convey messages in a military museum in Portsmouth, UK. And this link includes details on how to do it: https://www.popsci.com/story/diy/secret-code-messages-knitting/ https://www.popsci.com/story/diy/secret-code-messages-knitti...
- elzbardico 4y agoShe was not old at that time, but a teenager, and her cover to observe german positions was, according to article being an itinerant seller of SOAP in a bicycle. Being a young woman, according to the wikipedia, she was also able to entertain conversations with the young german soldiers to gather more information. It looks like the knitting kit was just a clever way of having a place to hide the OTP codes she used and keeping track of the ones already used. Also, according to the wikipedia she was once detained by the germans for interrogation, but they didn't think of checking her hair tie. Pretty clever IMHO, not to mention the mind-boggling level of courage.
- kitd 4y agoI wasn't talking about this woman, but other local women who also did their bit for the Resistance while being completely "invisible".