Gretel Mahoney and Claudia Strachan
Mrs Mahoney’s Secret War
The untold story of an extraordinary young woman’s resistance against the
Nazis
Mainstream Publishing ( 2009)
The inspiring story of a courageous young woman in the German Resistance. Gretel helped to protect fugitives hunted by the Gestapo, hid her Jewish doctor in her house cellar, and passed secrets to the Resistance, which she had learned from her employment in the Wehrmacht, sending and receiving messages on the Enigma encryption machine. Rescued in 1945, she married one of the British officers, who had liberated her.