Crime-Fighting Broads 004: The Nazi-Killers

Criminal Broads

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True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

There were plenty of jobs for women in WW2: nurse, ambulance driver, factory worker. But then there were the other jobs, the ones no one really talked about. Spy. Resistance fighter. Killer. These are the stories of five women—Nadezhda Popova, Vitka Kempner, Noor Inayat Khan, Nancy Wake, and Lyudmila Pavlichenko—who fought the Nazis. They terrorized them from the sky, blew up their trains, endured their torture, rode bikes through their territory, and shot them down with their rifles. In a world that threatened to be consumed by evil, they fought back. *** SUPPORT THE PODCAST! Become a Patreon supporter and get a cool postcard. Get a free month of Stitcher Premium at stitcherpremium.com with code BROADS. And get 25% off your Care/of order by heading to takecareof.com and using code CRIMINALBROADS. *** Sources: “Nadezhda Popova, WWII ‘Night Witch,’ Dies at 91,” New York Times, 14 July 2013 “Nadezhda Popova, celebrated Soviet ‘Night Witch’ aviator of World War II, dies at 91,” The Washington Post, 13 July 2013 “Vilna Jewish Partisans Led By Young Girl,” The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, 8 Sept 1944 “VITKA KEMPNER-KOVNER,” The Encyclopedia of Jewish Women “Vitka Kovner, partisan, passes away at the age of 92,” Yad Vashem, 15 Feb 2012 “Overlooked No More: Noor Inayat Khan, Indian Princess and British Spy,” New York Times, 28 Nov 2018 “One Woman, Many Surprises: Pacifist Muslim, British Spy, WWII Hero,” NPR, 6 Sept 2014 “Noor Inayat Khan: The Indian princess who spied for Britain,” BBC, 8 Nov 2012 “Nancy Wake, Proud Spy and Nazi Foe, Dies at 98,” New York Times, 13 Aug 2011 “Farewell to Nancy Wake, the mouse who ran rings around the Nazis,” The Guardian, 8 Aug 2011 “War hero Nancy Wake's ashes scattered in France,” ABC Australia, 10 Mar 2013 “Eleanor Roosevelt and the Soviet Sniper,” Smithsonian, 21 Feb 2013 “The life and myths of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Soviet Russia's deadliest sniper,” Public Radio International, 9 March 2018 “By the Numbers: End of World War II,” CNN, 2 Sept 2013 World War II Foundation (for statistics) Music: “Guilty” by Richard A. Whiting, Harry Akst, and Gus Kahn, sung by Anna Telfer “Shake It and Break It” by Lanin's Southern Serenaders, licensed under a Public Domain / Sound Recording Common Law Protection License “Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 16” by Sergei Rachmaninoff (Sviatoslav Richter, piano; Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, Stanislaw Wislocki, cond.), via archive.org. Samples played from “Miss Pavlichenko” by Woody Guthrie and Inglorious Bastards by Quentin Tarantino. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is it a sin? A crime loving you dear like I do? If it's a crime then I'm guilty
0:06.3	like I do if it's a crime, then I'm guilty, guilty of love in you.
0:20.0	Welcome, welcome, to episode 30 of criminal broads, a podcast about wild women on the wrong side of the law and sometimes, Dagnabbit, wild women on the right side of the law.
0:32.0	I'm Torrey Telfer, your host.
0:33.7	I'm the author of Lady Killers,
0:35.2	a book about female serial killers.
0:37.2	And I'm working on a project, a book about con women,
0:41.4	which if it does not kill me, it will be my greatest work to date.
0:45.8	I'm also, I identify as a sort of professional big sister, so if you need a shoulder to cry on a sort of semi maternal
0:56.0	advice or support you can ask me about my rates they're very reasonable and I have
1:01.4	three great references from my younger siblings and if they don't give me a good reference I will destroy them.
1:08.0	Just kidding I love them so much.
1:10.0	What else? Before I get to today's story, no stories, I wanted to give you a little update on
1:19.0	Patreon, the primary means of making criminal broads happen.
1:25.0	So it's thanks to my amazing patrons
1:27.6	that this podcast is able to come out.
1:31.0	Thank you guys so much. But I must confess I have not been the best or most consistent patroness in the world. So all that is changing now. I've revamped my Patreon, given it a few tweaks, a little facelift here, a little
1:46.1	Botox there. And starting with this episode, I'm going to post a behind the scenes post after every episode featuring information, photos,
1:55.2	whatever I couldn't fit into this episode.
1:57.8	I'm going to do that every time, I promise, keep me to it.
2:02.0	And I've also added in a new reward for patrons at the five dollar level or
2:06.3	above. If you are giving that much per month you can ask questions about true crime in general, about specific cases, about my
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