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Agent Zo: The woman who parachuted into Nazi-occupied Poland

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Elbieta Zawacka was born in 1909 in Toru , a part of Poland which had been under Prussia , then later Germany , for nearly a century .

She joined the underground resistance, taking the code name Zo and building an intelligence network.

Her network was infiltrated by the Nazis and soon Gestapo officers were in hot pursuit.

With her intelligence network compromised and her name and face known, she was handed a new mission.

She was instructed to cross occupied Europe to pass orders to Poland 's government-in-exile.

Poland 's Home Army was the largest resistance force in occupied Europe .

With many men stuck overseas, there was a need to recruit as many women as possible.

Zo helped secure legal military rights for women in the Home Army as male soldiers had.

She drafted a decree on women's military status that became law following the Warsaw Uprising .

but she sort of blithely assumes that everyone shares her very binary world vision - they're bad, we've got to free Poland . "That's it. That's what's driving her.".

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