The Spy Who Loved and Killed: Tetyana Markus’s War on Nazis
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She was young, brilliant, and in love. But when Kyiv fell to the Nazis, Tetyana Markus became one of the most dangerous resistance fighters in occupied Ukraine. Under a false identity, she seduced and executed Nazi officers before being captured and brutally tortured. Her final words inspired her comrades: “No matter how they hurt me, I will not tell them anything.”
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