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Norah Constance Lavinia Briscoe (1899 Wirral, Cheshire – 1995 Waveney, Suffolk) was a British collaborator who attempted to supply classified information to Nazi Germany during World War II. In 1941, she was convicted of an offence under the Defence Regulations and sentenced to 5 years’ penal servitude. ==Biography== Norah Briscoe, née Davies, was born into a middle-class family and was brought up in Liverpool. After her mother gave birth to triplets she was sent to live with two elderly aunts. She felt rejected and a convent schooling increased her sense of rejection. She married Reginald Briscoe, a civil servant in 1925 at Birkenhead and they were living in Kingston on Thames when he died of acute appendicitis in 1932. She began a career as a freelance journalist and writer and in 1934 she travelled to Germany to write articles. Briscoe later wrote in her unpublished autobiography: "We seemed to have found in that other land of mountains and streams and towering forests, a corner of the world as remote from war and evil as was possible... You could pray, dance, drink, smoke, and worship as you pleased. Young men in leather breeches leaped over flames on Midsummer Night in a pagan ritual and heard Mass next day. You could follow any creed you liked - provided you followed the Führer, too. And whose business was that but their own?" There she became enthused by National Socialism, so much so that in 1936 she placed her only child, Paul born in 1930, with a German friend, Seppl Sauter. Paul was to be brought up in the Sauter family in Miltenberg, Lower Franconia, where he received a German education and joined the Hitler Youth. In 1939, with war in Europe looming, Briscoe made no attempt to bring her son home and when Britain declared war on 3 September 1939, Paul was stranded in Germany. Briscoe joined the British Union of Fascists and was a BUF Team Leader in Bournemouth. She was also a member of the Right Club, a pro-German society founded by the right-wing extremist, Captain Archibald Maule Ramsay, the MP for Peebles and Southern Midlothian. 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「Norah Briscoe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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