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    The Interpreter: Journal of a German Double Agent in Occupied France
    The Interpreter: Journal of a German Double Agent in Occupied France
    The Interpreter: Journal of a German Double Agent in Occupied France
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    The Interpreter: Journal of a German Double Agent in Occupied France

    Written by Marcelle Kellermann

    Narrated by Christian Rodskjaer

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    Set during the occupation of France of 1940-44 during which time the author fought as a member of the resistance. The story follows her interrogation, imprisonment, and subsequent unexpected release by the German Nazi Officer Frank Van Heugen, the official interpreter in the German Kommandatur of Vichy France. Intrigued when after the war the same man is awarded the Croix de la Résistance by Général de Gaulle, Marcelle Kellermann discovered that The Interpreter had been a German anti-Nazi double agent and decided to write about the life she imagines he must have led, always in great personal danger, covertly working day and night with the French resistance movement and the Allies under the watchful eyes of the Wehrmacht. A story by turn both tragic and at times darkly humorous, each chapter can be regarded as a short episode in its own right detailing this remarkable anti-hero's life and his struggle for humanity during Europe's darkest hour.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherM-Y Books Ltd.
    Release dateJan 14, 2012
    ISBN9781906658335
    The Interpreter: Journal of a German Double Agent in Occupied France
    Author

    Marcelle Kellermann

    Marcelle Kellermann, a Parisian, interrupted her studies at the university in ClermontFerrand in France's Auvergne and joined the Resistance in 1942. After the war, she married a research physicist E W Kellermann in Manchester with whom she had three children. She completed her studies in England and eventually became a Senior Education Adviser in Yorkshire. She developed new ways of teaching foreign languages and published two books on the subject. She has a commemoration medal for her Resistance work and was made a Chevalier Des Palmes Academiques for her language work by the French government. She lives in Hampstead, London with her Husband.

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