A hacksaw blade frees a prisoner
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This episode details the early life and wartime experiences of Frank Pickersgill, a Canadian intellectual who became a secret agent. It explores the choices he made that led him into one of the most dangerous intelligence operations of World War II.
Person: Frank Pickersgill
Date: August 8, 1944
Location: Paris, France
Organization: Special Operations Executive (SOE)
Mission: Establish the Archdeacon resistance network
- Frank Pickersgill, a classics graduate from Winnipeg, cycled across Europe in 1934, documenting his observations in letters home.
- In 1938, he returned to Europe as a freelance journalist, meeting Jean-Paul Sartre in Paris and planning to translate his work.
- After Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Pickersgill, a British subject in occupied France, was interned at Stalag 220, a civilian camp.
- He escaped Stalag 220 by sawing through a window bar with a hacksaw blade smuggled in a loaf of bread.
- In London, he turned down a desk job with the Canadian Army to join the Canadian Army Corps, subsequently recruited by the British SOE.
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