The Limping Lady

Retropod

The Washington Post

History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.5 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

President Trump made history Tuesday when he nominated a woman to become director of the Central Intelligence Agency. But while a woman leading the CIA was once unthinkable, female spies have made enormous, overlooked contributions in espionage.

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0:14.5	Hey, history lovers.
0:15.8	I'm Mike Rosenwald with Retropod, a show about the past, rediscovered.
0:21.3	Some of the most overlooked people in history are spies.
0:28.0	They go to their graves with secrets, with untold stories of daring adventures.
0:34.2	Sometimes we get lucky in a great tale emerges, like the story of the limping lady.
0:40.2	Her real name, Virginia Hall.
0:42.9	Back during World War II, Hall was one of the most important spies for Western allies.
0:48.2	She worked with the French resistance and acted as a fixer, finding safehouses, surveilling targets.
0:54.5	In 1942, she found herself in a real pickle.
0:58.2	She was in Leone, France.
1:00.3	The Nazis were closing in on her.
1:02.1	She knew she had to flee.
1:04.4	How'd she know?
1:05.6	Because after years in the spy business,
1:07.7	assisting escape POWs and all manner of other covert op stuff, she had that
1:12.7	sense she was being stalked. She was right. The legendary Gestapo chief, Nicolaus Barbie,
1:19.5	was on her tail. They called him the butcher of Leon. And the pursuit was on.
1:29.0	The limping lady had to contend not just with the butcher, but her own physical handicap.
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