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Jeannie Rousseau

October 25, 2017 in Modern Worthies

Jeannie Rousseau

The Spy Who Foiled Germany's Rockets

Using her photographic memory, this WW2 spy stole some of the most vital German rocket plans, and suffered a year in concentration camps for it. She died this year.

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