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Podcast: Dan Snow's History Hit
Episode: Toto Koopman: Socialite, Vogue Model and WWII Spy
Description: Toto Koopman was remarkable; she was a high society socialite who risked her life wining and dining with Italian blackshirts in order to gather information for the Dutch intelligence service in WWII. When she refused to work as a spy for the Italians, she was thrown in a detention camp. She escaped from and hid in the mountains. When she was captured again she was taken to Ravensbrück concentration camp. There she pretended she got a role at the hospital by pretending she was a nurse; there she risked her own life forging documents to save the lives o...