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Ghita Mary Lindell (11 September 1895 in Sutton, London - 1986 in Paris) was a controversial figure of the Second World War. Resistance fighter to some, to others she was a double agent on the German payroll. ==Biographical details== Lindell was born to a wealthy family in Surrey, England. Her mother, Gertrude Colls, was of the Colls family, the daughter of a successful architect.〔Peter Morley, (''Peter Morley - A Life Rewound'' Part 4 ) (PDF) British Academy of Film and Television Arts (2010), pp. 245-250. Retrieved September 29, 2011〕 During the First World War, she served as a member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) and subsequently with the ''Secours aux Blessés'', a division of the French Red Cross. She was decorated for her bravery and service by the French, receiving a Croix de Guerre in 1918.〔 She was also decorated by the Tsarist Russian government. She married the Count de Milleville, a member of the French aristocracy, and settled permanently in France. During World War II, she participated in the evacuation of three Allied pilots on the "Pat" line (named after "Pat O'Leary", an alias of Albert Guérisse). Despite a narrow escape, which led to her brief refuge in her native Britain, she joined MI9 and returned to occupied France in 1942, where she learned that as the Comtesse de Milleville, she had been sentenced to death.〔 She would have organised a new escape line, the "Marie-Claire" line, under her new name. She continued to work in France until severely wounded, captured and deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp at the end of 1943.〔John Nichol and Tony Rennell, (''Home Run - Escape from Nazi Europe'' ) Penguin books (2007)〕 She survived in the camp hospital and was liberated by the Swedish Red Cross in 1945. The Lindell children were involved in their mother's work. Her son, Maurice, was interrogated and severely beaten for his activities but was released when Mary paid the Gestapo chief in Lyons, Klaus Barbie, a bribe of 45,000 francs. Her other son, Oky, was similarly interrogated and deported to a concentration camp where it is presumed he died. Lindell was subsequently recognised for her work and was also an advocate for those British civilians who were interned in Nazi concentration camps. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary Lindell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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