The Tribunite who Tried to Kill Hitler
During the Second World War, Jewish socialist Hilda Monte was forced into exile by the Nazi governmen — but the connections she made in Britain helped her to become one of the resistance’s most formidable operatives.
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On 17 April 1945, Hilda Monte’s luck ran out. In unclear circumstances on the frontier between Nazi Germany and neutral Liechtenstein, the lifelong socialist and resistance fighter was mortally wounded in the final few weeks of war in Europe. Yet despite her apparent aptitude for hiding details about her life in order to remain an […]