Such an amazing woman and while we're all grateful for her bravery and sacrifice, I can't help but feel just how senseless war is - how many wonderful people like Khan must we lose to violence
...every day, humanity loses people with things to say, ideas to share, concepts that could help us evolve and grow past this stupid adolescent stage we're stuck it, and they might have nothing to do with murder. While the people who are in charge are in charge, we are missing out on so much, losing so much potential. We're looking at war heroes because it makes for a good story; what about the homeless dying on the streets..? What might they be capable of in a world that doesn't treat them as lesser, gives them opportunities, shelter, food and water..? Apply that to all people being treated as other, being forced to comply and conform, being ostracised, being killed. This world isn't right, and anyone who wants to keep it this way because it's not all that bad for them is the actual problem with life today; not the ruling classes, but those under them keeping them up. All we have to do is let them fall, and then rise the fuck up ourselves.
Oof. This hit me right in the feels. I wonder whether they weren't worried about her goals for Indian independence because they figured she wouldn't live long enough to contribute to it. I agree it's hard to imagine that level of bravery. A great story to be reading during Ramadan. I only wish more people knew it.
Noor Inayat Khan, played by Radhika Apte, Vera Atkins, played by Stana Katic, and Virginia Hall, played by Sarah Megan Thomas (who also wrote the screenplay) are the main characters in 2019’s “A Call to Spy”, which is about women of the SOE’s Section F.
She was featured in the book A Man Called Intrepid. Her code name was Madeline. She was one of many SOE operatives trained at Camp X in Oshawa, Ontario.
@@Weirdkauz the "intrepid title character" was in fact Sir William Stevenson, a real person, who had his own exploits in WWI and was a spy master in WWII.
I mean, I love your work, J - love it. But this has to be one of the most captivating and incredible stories which you have told. I grew up on TV shows like A'llo, A'llo and B&W films of just post WWII, etc and am well familiar with the astonishing bravery of the SOE and stories of Nancy Wake and her brave compatriots - but I have never heard of this woman, this Indian woman; a Muslim and hero(ine) who must have faced even more dangers than those with whom I am familiar. Truly, in this age of revisiting the 2nd World War and depicting it in great cinematic works - this is a story which deserves to be told. Thank you for bringing it to light for me.
I have seen documentaries about the SOE and the French Resistance and knew about Nancy Wake and her exploits and bravery. I don’t have a clue how the SOE and French resistance fighters managed to be so brave, especially Noor 5 months as a wireless operator incredible, she would have saved many more lives than the 30, by the information she transmitted and received. There is no way I could be that brave. Imagine the Airman she got back to Great Britain and their descendants that are alive because of her, this very intelligent and courageous woman.
I am enfuriated with fascists, the Gestapo in particular, and faschy bastards in the present day. Noor means moonbeam, and her light shining so bravely has not dimmed in the hearts who beat freely today.
Very cool to watch your subscriptions growing by the thousands every day since i discovered your channel a week ago and to read the comments of the past week posted by others who enjoy your videos as much as i do. 👍✌️
What an incredible woman. I bet she could have done so much more amazing stuff had she not been killed during the war, which is a true tragedy, but she also saved so many lives through her incredible bravery and intelligence. I wish more people knew about her.
First time I face guidelines for a comment 👍. I wanna just say that I have read about her story in a Greek magazine about history. I love history and generally I love to read and learn new stuff.
This is such a coincidence, I'm literally sitting in this park whilst watching this waiting for my graduation at UCL! I really wished there were QR codes on busts like this to your videos as the history behind a relatively underassuming bust is fascinating - what a brave and multi-talented woman!
Except for the strangely upbeat finishing info about your channel, I found this EXTREMELY well done. You just walking, talking voice over seems so appropriate, the few pictures in between trigger the imagination... I was starting to cry when you fell on me with those map-things. I wished she had survived, but could she? If she had, she'd be right up there with Mahatma, we'd all know her.
I can't express the absolute admiration I have for this young woman ( and those like her ) . I am in awe of her . My own interest in mysticism / Sufism / yoga , makes this a story that I feel viscerally as she seems to represent Selfless actions at the highest level . Noor - your name liveth evermore 🕊️
The way you say oom😂. I get why you would say it like that but its probably said like Om aka this sign 🕉 . Also, yeah the Jataka tales are an integral part of our childhood.
This is something Americans will never understand because other than Pearl Harbor Americans have never endured war on the e home front. The necessity of ordinary people to exhibit such bravery is uncommon.
There were three of us this morning I'm the only one this evening But I must go on The frontiers are my prison Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing Through the graves the wind is blowing Freedom soon will come Then we'll come from the shadows
fascinating story! I was wondering though, if the wireless operator statistic of 6 weeks incorporates the operators sent to the Netherlands as well. Because that operation was a complete shitshow, but by design. The British, without consulting the dutch with whom they shared command of the operation, basically sold out their operators immediately to give the Germans a false sense of security. when an operator was caught, they were usually forced by the Germans to still attempt to make contact with London to extract information. To give these operators a chance to covertly communicate them being compromised they had to do a security check, usually making a spelling error in a predetermined word in a predetermined sentence. when the first operator was caught and stopped doing his security check he was explicitly asked by his handler why he wasn't doing them, giving the whole game away. every subsequent operator send to the Netherlands after that basically walked straight into into the gestapos arms. All of this was done to make the Nazis think they actually had a good source of unbiased intelligence so that by the end of the war, when D-day was being planned the dutch "resistance operators" all got word the main invasion would be under the command of general Patton, which the Germans already suspected because they considered him the most competent American general, and make landfall in Scandinavia. this whole operation seems to have worked and the Germans where likely taken by surprise during D-day mostly because they believed that disinformation, but it has soured a lot of Dutch veterans and resistance fighters who had been demoralized all throughout the war because all their operations kept failing because of compromised operators. Anyway, i though because of that whole drama perhaps the statistics might be a bit skewed? not that that would detract in any way from this wonderful lady's story. she sounds amazing.
Hello! The SOE was split into different divisions depending on what country they were working in- Norway, France, the Netherlands, etc. They even had different HQs in London. As far as I can tell, the six weeks statistic seems to just cover the French wireless operators: www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/soe_01.shtml
@@JDraper She came close to being dropped. Insofar as they could test, she was holding her own with aggressive questioning but they put in a chummy friendly type of English gent German inquisitor, who offered her drinks, etc and she relaxed and told him much more than she should. She did not learn fast and was on a knife edge of being dropped. It just shows how difficult it is to pick the best in a class. One very successful American pilot said he was very slow to get relaxed with the fighter planes. He struggled with revs, all the things he had to keep an eye on, etc. He felt he was close to being dropped. He said that watching the top students, interestingly the men in his class that seemed effortlessly good, were all excellent horsemen. He said they seemed to be able to throw the planes around effortlessly, almost like they were back in the saddle. He said he really had to plug away slowly, heavily, clumsily. Then one day, he got in the plane and suddenly, the plane was part of him. He wasn't flying the plane, he was just flying. Suddenly, he only had to turn his head and the plane would respond. He wrote beautifully. After the war, he became an English professor.
@@georgielancaster1356 Goes to show that you don't have to be instantly good at something to become the best. Sometimes it just takes hard work, and persistence can be the rarer quality.
Wow, this is completely and totally fascinating!🤩🙌🏼👍🏼It's a shame I had never heard of her before. This incredible story deserves to be told.✊🏼What a woman! ♀️ They don't make them like that no more! She deserves a movie made about her life and sacrifice. How come there's no film about her?! It's outrageous!
Wow. To fight such brutal violence with such a quiet, fearful dignity. To slightly paraphrase the Dalai Lama: "The true heroes are the ones who conquer their own anger and hatred. When you master your emotions and you gain peace, you become the living example of a true hero."
Identities can be tricky. The caption declares her as a "Muslim woman", while whatever I myself read about her seemed to suggest that she identified herself first and foremost as an Indian, a daughter of a country striving to gain independence. Yes, she was born to an illustrious Muslim family, but i am not aware of any evidence that she placed her religious identity at a higher level than her national identity. To be fair, she could be best described as an Indian nationalist. The reason she faught for Britain against Nazi Germany was probably because she realised (like many other colonial peoples) that fascism and Nazism was a far more virulent problem for the world, and had to be resisted, at any cost.
I don't think you have to have your religion be the number one thing about you to be described as religious. If she was Indian and Muslim, then neither discredits the other
So which of the many Google map pins linked in the description are actually relevant to this story? As spam goes it's quite creative I'll give you that but at least make it possible to find the location without watching your entire back catalogue eh?
If you knew how harsh the Gestapos interrogation was, how can you say , that she was berayed??? knowing your Channel if it was a woman you would have chosen other words
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Such an amazing woman and while we're all grateful for her bravery and sacrifice, I can't help but feel just how senseless war is - how many wonderful people like Khan must we lose to violence
How many really wonderful things she could have done for humanity, had she lived...
...every day, humanity loses people with things to say, ideas to share, concepts that could help us evolve and grow past this stupid adolescent stage we're stuck it, and they might have nothing to do with murder. While the people who are in charge are in charge, we are missing out on so much, losing so much potential. We're looking at war heroes because it makes for a good story; what about the homeless dying on the streets..? What might they be capable of in a world that doesn't treat them as lesser, gives them opportunities, shelter, food and water..? Apply that to all people being treated as other, being forced to comply and conform, being ostracised, being killed. This world isn't right, and anyone who wants to keep it this way because it's not all that bad for them is the actual problem with life today; not the ruling classes, but those under them keeping them up. All we have to do is let them fall, and then rise the fuck up ourselves.
Oof. This hit me right in the feels. I wonder whether they weren't worried about her goals for Indian independence because they figured she wouldn't live long enough to contribute to it. I agree it's hard to imagine that level of bravery. A great story to be reading during Ramadan. I only wish more people knew it.
Noor Inayat Khan, played by Radhika Apte, Vera Atkins, played by Stana Katic, and Virginia Hall, played by Sarah Megan Thomas (who also wrote the screenplay) are the main characters in 2019’s “A Call to Spy”, which is about women of the SOE’s Section F.
There was an itv drama called wish me luck
She was featured in the book A Man Called Intrepid. Her code name was Madeline. She was one of many SOE operatives trained at Camp X in Oshawa, Ontario.
Could the intrepid title-character hold a candle to her?
@@Weirdkauz the "intrepid title character" was in fact Sir William Stevenson, a real person, who had his own exploits in WWI and was a spy master in WWII.
I walk past that park all the time when I’m commuting and had no idea of that inspiring story!
Now you get to remember it every time. Hopefully more people who walk by it will see this video and remember.
I mean, I love your work, J - love it.
But this has to be one of the most captivating and incredible stories which you have told.
I grew up on TV shows like A'llo, A'llo and B&W films of just post WWII, etc and am well familiar with the astonishing bravery of the SOE and stories of Nancy Wake and her brave compatriots - but I have never heard of this woman, this Indian woman; a Muslim and hero(ine) who must have faced even more dangers than those with whom I am familiar.
Truly, in this age of revisiting the 2nd World War and depicting it in great cinematic works - this is a story which deserves to be told.
Thank you for bringing it to light for me.
There is a somewhat tolerable adaptation that released recently. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Call_to_Spy
Wow! What an amazing woman! Thank you for telling her story!
I have seen documentaries about the SOE and the French Resistance and knew about Nancy Wake and her exploits and bravery.
I don’t have a clue how the SOE and French resistance fighters managed to be so brave, especially Noor 5 months as a wireless operator incredible, she would have saved many more lives than the 30, by the information she transmitted and received. There is no way I could be that brave. Imagine the Airman she got back to Great Britain and their descendants that are alive because of her, this very intelligent and courageous woman.
Like you said, it’s hard to imagine that degree of bravery.
I’d never heard about her before so this was fascinating, thank you
Wow! I am absolutely blown away by the historical detail of this and also the incredibly beauty of the scenery:)
this was amazing.Noor Inayat Khan was so brave and strong, i can't even imagine. thank you so much for telling her story
I couldnt resist to subscribe. Watching this from Germany. Go on with the good work.
I am enfuriated with fascists, the Gestapo in particular, and faschy bastards in the present day. Noor means moonbeam, and her light shining so bravely has not dimmed in the hearts who beat freely today.
She is a pakistani sister, let's celebrate
Actually Noor-un-Nissa means the Light of womanhood. As gorgeous a name as she was herself
@@selvamthiagarajan8152 She was dead and gone, before Pakistan came into being. Inappropriate to call her Pakistani sister
@safetynudge9026 The idea of pakistan was already conceived. All Muslims pre- partition were in favour of a homeland for the Muslims.
Such a fascinating woman. I first learned about her from a film on Netflix. Thank you for continuing to share Noor’s story!
The stories of many like her are largely unknown. Thanks for telling this one.
I am touched by this presentation- thank you so much for it.
Very cool to watch your subscriptions growing by the thousands every day since i discovered your channel a week ago and to read the comments of the past week posted by others who enjoy your videos as much as i do. 👍✌️
Terrific presentation. Thanks.
What an incredible woman. I bet she could have done so much more amazing stuff had she not been killed during the war, which is a true tragedy, but she also saved so many lives through her incredible bravery and intelligence. I wish more people knew about her.
What an incredible woman. I find , myself crying for her.
Wow what an brave and amazing person
I'm so happy you made this video. Without it, I dare say I'd likely never have heard of this.
First time I face guidelines for a comment 👍.
I wanna just say that I have read about her story in a Greek magazine about history.
I love history and generally I love to read and learn new stuff.
She is discussed in the book Between Silk and Cyanide a book written by the chief of cades for SOE during the war.
Brilliant work Ms Paper !
Thank you for sharing Noor's story.
I have only recently come across you work, I applaud you and his one moved me.
This is such a coincidence, I'm literally sitting in this park whilst watching this waiting for my graduation at UCL! I really wished there were QR codes on busts like this to your videos as the history behind a relatively underassuming bust is fascinating - what a brave and multi-talented woman!
As a British Muslim, she is our history.
Your content is always excellent.
Except for the strangely upbeat finishing info about your channel, I found this EXTREMELY well done. You just walking, talking voice over seems so appropriate, the few pictures in between trigger the imagination... I was starting to cry when you fell on me with those map-things.
I wished she had survived, but could she? If she had, she'd be right up there with Mahatma, we'd all know her.
Thank you Ms Noor and thank you Jenny for broadening my mind again. 🧠👍👌🏽✊
I can't express the absolute admiration I have for this young woman ( and those like her ) . I am in awe of her . My own interest in mysticism / Sufism / yoga , makes this a story that I feel viscerally as she seems to represent Selfless actions at the highest level . Noor - your name liveth evermore 🕊️
Damn! They straight through her into the deep end! What strength of character and mind.
Fascinating story. Thanks for sharing 👍
Cool video! Thanks for sharing this amazing story 😊
There's a lot of comments happening. This must be a very good video that's shown to more people.
She was in the movie Call to Spy. It was just a good movie. I always think about her story
The way you say oom😂. I get why you would say it like that but its probably said like Om aka this sign 🕉 . Also, yeah the Jataka tales are an integral part of our childhood.
Well now. That was fascinating.
Beautiful piece!
Fantastic story!
I remember reading here Fathers books on Islamic mysticism years ago, and then I discovered Noor. You couldn’t make it up.
This is something Americans will never understand because other than Pearl Harbor Americans have never endured war on the e home front. The necessity of ordinary people to exhibit such bravery is uncommon.
If I ever go for a visit over there, I wouldn't know where to start my journey.
Do you know if there is a place people can pay to get copies of the scores to her music?
R.I.P. Ms. Noor Inayat Khan
There were three of us this morning
I'm the only one this evening
But I must go on
The frontiers are my prison
Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing
Through the graves the wind is blowing
Freedom soon will come
Then we'll come from the shadows
Great share
fascinating story! I was wondering though, if the wireless operator statistic of 6 weeks incorporates the operators sent to the Netherlands as well. Because that operation was a complete shitshow, but by design. The British, without consulting the dutch with whom they shared command of the operation, basically sold out their operators immediately to give the Germans a false sense of security. when an operator was caught, they were usually forced by the Germans to still attempt to make contact with London to extract information. To give these operators a chance to covertly communicate them being compromised they had to do a security check, usually making a spelling error in a predetermined word in a predetermined sentence. when the first operator was caught and stopped doing his security check he was explicitly asked by his handler why he wasn't doing them, giving the whole game away. every subsequent operator send to the Netherlands after that basically walked straight into into the gestapos arms. All of this was done to make the Nazis think they actually had a good source of unbiased intelligence so that by the end of the war, when D-day was being planned the dutch "resistance operators" all got word the main invasion would be under the command of general Patton, which the Germans already suspected because they considered him the most competent American general, and make landfall in Scandinavia. this whole operation seems to have worked and the Germans where likely taken by surprise during D-day mostly because they believed that disinformation, but it has soured a lot of Dutch veterans and resistance fighters who had been demoralized all throughout the war because all their operations kept failing because of compromised operators. Anyway, i though because of that whole drama perhaps the statistics might be a bit skewed? not that that would detract in any way from this wonderful lady's story. she sounds amazing.
Hello! The SOE was split into different divisions depending on what country they were working in- Norway, France, the Netherlands, etc. They even had different HQs in London. As far as I can tell, the six weeks statistic seems to just cover the French wireless operators: www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/soe_01.shtml
@@JDraper Ah!. well i guess that makes sense then! Thank you! and thank you for telling me about this amazing woman
@@JDraper She came close to being dropped. Insofar as they could test, she was holding her own with aggressive questioning but they put in a chummy friendly type of English gent German inquisitor, who offered her drinks, etc and she relaxed and told him much more than she should. She did not learn fast and was on a knife edge of being dropped. It just shows how difficult it is to pick the best in a class.
One very successful American pilot said he was very slow to get relaxed with the fighter planes. He struggled with revs, all the things he had to keep an eye on, etc. He felt he was close to being dropped. He said that watching the top students, interestingly the men in his class that seemed effortlessly good, were all excellent horsemen. He said they seemed to be able to throw the planes around effortlessly, almost like they were back in the saddle. He said he really had to plug away slowly, heavily, clumsily.
Then one day, he got in the plane and suddenly, the plane was part of him. He wasn't flying the plane, he was just flying. Suddenly, he only had to turn his head and the plane would respond. He wrote beautifully. After the war, he became an English professor.
@@georgielancaster1356 Goes to show that you don't have to be instantly good at something to become the best. Sometimes it just takes hard work, and persistence can be the rarer quality.
yay subtitles
Terrific story. Ought have her own movie
coming from the new video
Thank you.
There must be a movie about her.
Before I supported this channel I was 5'7". Now I'm 6'5"!*
*Results not typical.
Amazing
Wow Noor. I. Khan
What a brave woman...Utterly awesome ... and, vicariously terrifying.
They should put her on the money, maybe a commemorative one or two pound coin or a special banknote.
Wow, this is completely and totally fascinating!🤩🙌🏼👍🏼It's a shame I had never heard of her before. This incredible story deserves to be told.✊🏼What a woman! ♀️ They don't make them like that no more! She deserves a movie made about her life and sacrifice. How come there's no film about her?! It's outrageous!
Glasses so we can’t see the tears?
Wow!
I hope that helps.
What an awesome woman.
✊
Wow. To fight such brutal violence with such a quiet, fearful dignity. To slightly paraphrase the Dalai Lama: "The true heroes are the ones who conquer their own anger and hatred.
When you master your emotions and you gain peace, you become the living example of a true hero."
This video needs more views. If only a person would post multiple times... He's surely be a fine person.
Wow
❤
Yes, this was not " 'Allo, 'Allo! " ... 😞
Well there's three comments. That should do something. Suddenly this video is very exciting and will be shown to many others.
Excellent a must respectful hero , Gandhi must have known of her heroism
Indian Army?
I refer you to the east India/Burma Campaign, 1943-45.
Hey look! Another comment. Hopefully more people will see this video.
Antii-quislings! SPLITTERS.
Identities can be tricky. The caption declares her as a "Muslim woman", while whatever I myself read about her seemed to suggest that she identified herself first and foremost as an Indian, a daughter of a country striving to gain independence. Yes, she was born to an illustrious Muslim family, but i am not aware of any evidence that she placed her religious identity at a higher level than her national identity. To be fair, she could be best described as an Indian nationalist. The reason she faught for Britain against Nazi Germany was probably because she realised (like many other colonial peoples) that fascism and Nazism was a far more virulent problem for the world, and had to be resisted, at any cost.
I don't think you have to have your religion be the number one thing about you to be described as religious. If she was Indian and Muslim, then neither discredits the other
Look at you, all dressed like a thoroughly-modern Milly... xxx
She is Pakistani, not Indian. Credit is rightfully due to the people of Pakistan.
There was no Pakistan in her lifetime. It was all India.
but she was a muslim @@NJMerlin
She was a Sufi, who were not noted for any particular support of Partition.
So which of the many Google map pins linked in the description are actually relevant to this story? As spam goes it's quite creative I'll give you that but at least make it possible to find the location without watching your entire back catalogue eh?
True way of pacisfists, "do my work for me".
You Brits need to put up a statue of Pee Wee Herman.
If you knew how harsh the Gestapos interrogation was, how can you say , that she was berayed??? knowing your Channel if it was a woman you would have chosen other words
The woman who gave her up seems to have been motivated by a love triangle, not torture.
The Rajputana rife regiment..my favourite military abriveation raj.rif.reg.