Nacht und Nebel
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Sep 29, 2026
SarahHOST
Yeah.
SarahHOST
And Liddy gives it the code name, I think this is German, Nacht und Nebel.
SarahHOST
Yeah.
SarahHOST
Which does mean night and fog, which was a phrase associated with a Nazi policy designed to make political opponents disappear.
Elyse RivinGUEST
And she was there that she learned that her mother had also been arrested, and the two of them were then sent to the camp of Ravensbrück, of Ravensbrück.
Elyse RivinGUEST
She was sent with a group of 24 other people, but she was considered to be so dangerous that she was part of this group that was called Nacht und Nebel, which means night and fog, and they were considered to be the most dangerous of the resistance.
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Well, because they were doing things physically, but they were also convincing others to join.
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Her whole point was to try and give French people...
Elyse RivinGUEST
She was, she was really, I mean, absolutely amazing, and, um, I suspect that she helped the morale, if you can consider that as a possibility, in this, for the other women in the camp with her.
Elyse RivinGUEST
She also unfortunately did learn that her mother was taken away to Mauthausen, where she was killed.
Elyse RivinGUEST
She was considered to be so dangerous because she was part of this group, uh, Nacht und Nebel, that she was on a list of those to be sent to, uh, Mauthausen to be executed.
Elyse RivinGUEST
But thanks to a Swedish diplomat named Folke Bernadotte, who I looked up and happened to be the nephew of the k- king of Sweden, she was included in a group that was negotiated for release by the International Red Cross.
John BatchelorHOST
There are two things working in its favor.
John BatchelorHOST
There's the Operation Night and Fog, which is Hitler's announcement for anybody who resists us can be killed.
John BatchelorHOST
No law is necessary.
John BatchelorHOST
That empowers the Gestapo, the SS.
Jane RogoyskaGUEST
I think he works in very well, although I think he proves to be remarkably adept.
Jane RogoyskaGUEST
But he becomes greedy.
Jane RogoyskaGUEST
When he breaks up one particular very well-known network, which involved a British agent called Virginia Hall, um he makes some mistakes he gets greedy he asks for too much money and the other begin to think he's you know he's he's uh he's losing his cover and he thinks the british are on to him um and so he gradually gets sidelined as does the advert in fact so the the politics of what's going on in occupied france at the moment is is also terrifying because 42 as you mentioned this is the roundups of jews This is where the brutality is at its worst with the night and fog decree as well, which means people being taken off to concentration camp with absolutely no formal process whatsoever.
Jane RogoyskaGUEST
And the more resistance there is, the more brutal the clampdowns become and the people who are taking power from the Abwehr are are, you know, the SS and the SDs.