MILITARY PERSONNEL

Violette Szabo

1921 - 1945

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Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo, GC (née Bushell; 26 June 1921 – c. 5 February 1945) was a British-French Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during the Second World War and a posthumous recipient of the George Cross. On her second mission into occupied France, Szabo was captured by the German army, interrogated, tortured, and deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany, where she was executed. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Violette Szabo is the 1,285th most popular military personnel (up from 1,404th in 2019), the 3,202nd most popular biography from France (up from 3,364th in 2019) and the 121st most popular French Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Violette Szabo ranks 1,285 out of 2,058. Before her are J. F. C. Fuller, John C. Woods, Maksim Purkayev, Felix von Luckner, Gustav Lombard, and Joachim Lemelsen. After her are Max Wünsche, Demetrios Ypsilantis, Ernst-Günther Baade, Michael von Melas, Issa Pliyev, and Marcus Fulvius Nobilior.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Violette Szabo ranks 188. Before her are Angelo Dundee, Pierre Bec, Amedeo Amadei, Oswaldo López Arellano, Piero Piccioni, and Francisco Morales Bermúdez. After her are Robert Brown, Guy Laroche, Leo Penn, Archduchess Charlotte of Austria, Andrew M. Gleason, and Erich Fried. Among people deceased in 1945, Violette Szabo ranks 217. Before her are Alfred Delp, Nikolai Tcherepnin, Óscar R. Benavides, Antal Szerb, Heinrich Ehrler, and N. C. Wyeth. After her are Henrietta Szold, Ernst-Günther Baade, Alexander Granach, Harry Hillman, Friedrich, Prince of Wied, and Rolf Carls.

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In France

Among people born in France, Violette Szabo ranks 3,202 out of 6,770. Before her are Firmin Abauzit (1679), Laurent-Joseph-Marius Imbert (1796), Maria Deraismes (1828), André Gobert (1890), Sandrine Bonnaire (1967), and John II, Count of Nevers (1415). After her are Eustace I, Count of Boulogne (1010), Antoine de Rivarol (1753), Joseph, Duke of Parma (1875), Bob Sinclar (1969), William IV, Count of Toulouse (1045), and Jules Barbier (1825).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Violette Szabo ranks 121. Before her are Adolphe Pégoud (1889), Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval (1715), François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie (1671), Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544), François Joseph Westermann (1751), and Amédée Courbet (1827). After her are Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle (1684), Anne Hilarion de Tourville (1642), François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers (1753), Henri de Montmorency, 4th Duke of Montmorency (1595), François Séverin Marceau (1769), and Louis Faidherbe (1818).

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