Overlooked Important WWII Figures from History

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)