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Marthe Cohn. Marthe Cohn Hoffman was born into an Orthodox Jewish family as one of seven children living just across the German border in France when Hitler rose to power. Marthe was 20 when the Nazis invaded France in Suddenly, her life took a turn so extraordinary it could have been pulled straight from a Hollywood movie script. While the rest of her family fled south, Marthe decided to fight back.

After graduating from nursing school, with a perfect German accent and Aryan appearance, Marthe became a spy for the Intelligence Service of the French 1st Army. During the next year, Cohn mingled freely with Nazi troops, on occasion caring for injured Nazi soldiers in order to maintain her cover. She gathered invaluable information on troop positions, which she secretly relayed to Allied commanders.

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Her intelligence gathering was instrumental in allowing the Allies to break through the Siegfried Line — a line of defensive forts and tanks built by Germany in northern France — and enter German territory in , leading to the end of the war. Not even her children knew to what extent this modest woman had faced death on a daily basis while helping defeat the Nazi empire.

At its heart, this remarkable story is the tale of an ordinary human being who, under extraordinary circumstances, became the hero her country needed her to be. G-d Bless You, Marthe and thank you so much for sharing your incredible story with me.