Cécile Rol-Tanguy, who helped liberate Paris from the Nazis, dies at 101

From a clandestine underground bunker among the stinking sewers of Nazi-occupied Paris in 1944, young mother of two Cécile Rol-Tanguy would climb 100 steep steps and emerge onto the city’s streets carrying her infant daughter while pushing her baby son in his stroller.

Her faked flirtatious smile, as well as forged documents, allowed her to pass Nazi soldiers and checkpoints with little more than wolf whistles. What the Germans didn’t know was that she had hidden pistols, grenades, ammunition, anti-Nazi leaflets, attack plans and often a light machine gun in the bedding of the baby carriage. The underground bunker was a command center of the French resistance.