Julie Wheelwright
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 19 Jun
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Absolutely.
Absolutely.
And she was really making an important point that she was Dutch.
So she came from a country that was neutral during the war and what she was doing was not illegal.
It was also a kind of strategy because it was a strategy of deflection because she actually was working for the Germans and she was a double agent.
So that kind of image of her in sort of in all her splendor and of course, what comes before that is, you know, she was very well known in Paris because she had been on the stage.
She'd invented this thing.
new form of dancing, which was very risqué, which involved taking off her clothes.
And, you know, she was very well known in the cellars.
She was a real fashion icon and would be seen in all the right places at the Longchamp races, in the theater.
She had things specially designed for her.
But at the same time, you know, this is a time of war.
Men are dying.
People are starving.
There's mutinies on the Western Front.
And she's the absolute antithesis of, for example, a figure like Edith Cavell, the nurse who was working for the resistance in Belgium and was executed by the Germans.
So you have this kind of slut situation.
Madonna.
And in fact, it's kind of fascinating if you look at the sort of propaganda around these two figures during the war because they were compared to each other.
So I found a lot of sources where either in newspapers or
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