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The much-maligned woman fought tooth and nail to position her son, Alexander, to become "the Great" - and herself in the process.
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Spy, smuggler, saboteur, partisan: this Jewish woman refused to go like a lamb to the slaughter, and fought the Nazis tooth and nail... even after the war, when she, alongside others, poisoned thousands of Nazi POWs in a revenge plot.
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