Elena Haas: Czech Resistance Fighter

Elena Haas was well known to the Gestapo during World War II.

In 1944, armed with a submachine gun, she led a raid that destroyed a vital and heavily guarded bridge.

In several other raids, she destroyed Nazi supplies and ammunition and killed many Nazis.

Unfortunately, this modern woman warrior was killed in a guerrilla raid against an airfield in January 1945.

According to accounts by those in her unit who survived, she continued to fire her gun at the enemy even as she collapsed from her wound.

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