10. Tortured by the Gestapo
The Gestapo eventually tracked down and arrested Odette Sansom. When she refused to spill the secrets she knew, she was taken to Fresnes Prison outside Paris. There, she was interrogated over a dozen times by the Gestapo, who burned her back with red hot irons, and pulled out all of her toenails. She screamed in agony, but insisted that she knew nothing.
Eventually, the Germans gave up on trying to squeeze information out of her, and sent her to Ravensbruck Concentration Camp. There, the camp commandant, Fritz Suhren, kept her on a starvation diet, and housed her in a punishment block cell, from where she could hear other prisoners being tortured. She survived, and testified against him and other prison Ravensbruck prison guards after the war. He was convicted and executed.