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WestSouthwest May 30, 2016: Marthe Cohn

Sehvilla Mann
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WMUK

On Memorial Day we hear a long cut of our March interview with Marthe Cohn, who went to Germany to spy for the French army in the last months of World War II. She was 24 when she began her assignment. As a cover, Cohn pretended to be a German nurse in search of her missing fiancé. One of the things Cohn had to conceal from the Germans is that she's Jewish.

Our original story on Cohn includes a transcript of the full interview.

Sehvilla Mann joined WMUK’s news team in 2014 as a reporter on the local government and education beats. She covered those topics and more in eight years of reporting for the Station, before becoming news director in 2022.
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