September 13th , 1944 : On This Day SOE operator Noor Inayat Khan was executed at Dachau concentration camp in Bavaria. At dawn on September 13th, 1944 [1] four women were led into a yard within the camp. There they were told to kneel and their death sentences were read out. Men of the Nazi SS (‘Schutzstaffel’) stepped forward and shot each woman in the back of the neck. One of them, however, despite having been severely beaten uttered her final word “ liberté ” . Such brave