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Overlooked Important WWII Figures from History

Khalid Elhassan October 20, 2019 31 min

1. Life After the War

For her wartime services, Charlotte Noshpitz was awarded the Médaille de la Résistance, the Croix du Combattant Volontaire de la Resistance, the Médaille des Services Volontaires Dans la France Libre and the War Commemoration Medal. After the war, she resumed her education, studied psychology at the Sorbonne, art history at the Louvre, as well as languages.

Charlotte sailed to the United States to further her mental health studies and to examine a model health treatment center in Kansas for replication in Paris. During a rough crossing of the Atlantic, she met and befriended Ernest Hemingway. After her return to France, she married in a ceremony attended by her Resistance compatriots, and settled into family life and a rewarding professional career.

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Where Did We Find This Stuff? Some Sources and Further Reading

Barber, Neil – Fighting With the Commandos: Recollections of Stan Scott, No. 3 Commando (2008)

Brits At Their Best – Armed With an Umbrella

Carlson, Elliot – Joe Rochefort’s War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway (2013)

Daily Mail, August 29^th, 2015 – The Hotpants Hotshot: Formidable Derring-do of the Nazi Hunting, Gun Toting Pin Up Teen of the French Resistance

History Net – Joe Rochefort’s War: Deciphering a Code Breaker

Imperial War Museum – Odette Sansom, GC

Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation – Eta Wrobel

Kaminsky, Sarah – Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger’s Life (2016)

Life Magazine, September 4^th, 1944 – The Girl Partisan of Chartres

Loftis, Larry – Code Name Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII’s Most Highly Decorated Spy (2019)

Murphy, Brendan – Turncoat: The Strange Case of British Sergeant Harold Cole (1987)

Pegasus Archives – Major Allison Digby Tatham-Warter

Ryan, Cornelius – A Bridge Too Far (1974)

Sakaida, Henry – Heroines of the Soviet Union (2003)

Spiegel, August 25th, 2011 – The Hidden Life of the Humanitarian Forger

United States Holocaust Museum – Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara

Wikipedia – Sakae Oba

Wikipedia – Zinaida Portnova

WW2 Wrecks – The Last Samurai: Sakae Oba and the Largest Banzai Charge of the War in the Pacific

Written by

Khalid Elhassan

A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.

I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.

A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.