La Dame Blanche (French; lit. 'The White Lady') was the codename for an underground intelligence network which operated in German-occupied Belgium during World War I. It took its name from a German legend which stated that the fall of the Hohenzollern dynasty would be announced by the appearance of a woman wearing white. The network provided information on German troop movements by watching the railway system. A monument to the Dame Blanche resistance organization has been built near the city of Liège. It is the Chapelle Saint-Maurice (mémorial Walthère Dewé), Rue Coupée 94, Liège, Belgium.
Attributes | Values |
---|
rdf:type
| |
rdfs:label
| - Dame Blanche (resistance) (en)
- La Dame blanche (réseau de renseignements) (fr)
- Dame Blanche (verzetsgroep) (nl)
|
rdfs:comment
| - La Dame blanche est un réseau de renseignements belge de la Première Guerre mondiale. Il prend ce nom en référence à une légende allemande indiquant que la fin de la dynastie des Hohenzollern serait annoncée par l'apparition d'un spectre de femme toute blanche. (fr)
- La Dame Blanche (Nederlands: De Witte Vrouw) was een groot spionnennetwerk opgericht in België tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog. De naam komt uit de legende waar het Duits keizerlijke huis Hohenzollern verwoest wordt door een witte dame. Het netwerk hield zich vooral bezig met het observeren van het treinverkeer in het door de Duitsers bezette deel van België. (nl)
- La Dame Blanche (French; lit. 'The White Lady') was the codename for an underground intelligence network which operated in German-occupied Belgium during World War I. It took its name from a German legend which stated that the fall of the Hohenzollern dynasty would be announced by the appearance of a woman wearing white. The network provided information on German troop movements by watching the railway system. A monument to the Dame Blanche resistance organization has been built near the city of Liège. It is the Chapelle Saint-Maurice (mémorial Walthère Dewé), Rue Coupée 94, Liège, Belgium. (en)
|
foaf:depiction
| |
dcterms:subject
| |
Wikipage page ID
| |
Wikipage revision ID
| |
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
| |
Link from a Wikipage to an external page
| |
sameAs
| |
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
| |
thumbnail
| |
has abstract
| - La Dame Blanche (French; lit. 'The White Lady') was the codename for an underground intelligence network which operated in German-occupied Belgium during World War I. It took its name from a German legend which stated that the fall of the Hohenzollern dynasty would be announced by the appearance of a woman wearing white. The network provided information on German troop movements by watching the railway system. The Dame Blanche network was founded in 1916 by , an engineer working in a telegraph and telephone company in Brussels. The decision resulted from the arrest and execution of Dewé's cousin, , who had himself founded an intelligence network codenamed "Lambrecht". In order to save the group, Dewé took control and developed it under the name Dame Blanche with his friend Herman Chauvin. The network was at first affiliated to the British military intelligence service of Cecil Aylmer Cameron via Folkestone. After constant infiltration by agents working for Colonel Walter Nicolai and Abteilung III b, the German counterintelligence service, La Dame Blanche transferred its allegiance to the British Secret Service (later known as MI6) station in Rotterdam, where their new handler was Captain Henry Landau. After the end of the war, Mansfield Smith-Cumming, head of the Secret Service, estimated that Dame Blanche had supplied as much as 70 percent of all military intelligence collected by Allied intelligence services world-wide, not merely that from German-occupied Belgium and northern France. By the end of the war, its 1,300 agents covered all of occupied Belgium, northern France and – through a collaboration with Louise de Bettignies' network – occupied Luxembourg. The network was known for its high proportion of female members; women may have made up as much as 30 percent of its total personnel. During the second German occupation of Belgium in World War II, Dewé used the experience of the Dame Blanche network to start a new network, codenamed Clarence. He was shot and killed while trying to avoid capture by the Germans in 1944. A monument to the Dame Blanche resistance organization has been built near the city of Liège. It is the Chapelle Saint-Maurice (mémorial Walthère Dewé), Rue Coupée 94, Liège, Belgium. (en)
- La Dame blanche est un réseau de renseignements belge de la Première Guerre mondiale. Il prend ce nom en référence à une légende allemande indiquant que la fin de la dynastie des Hohenzollern serait annoncée par l'apparition d'un spectre de femme toute blanche. (fr)
- La Dame Blanche (Nederlands: De Witte Vrouw) was een groot spionnennetwerk opgericht in België tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog. De naam komt uit de legende waar het Duits keizerlijke huis Hohenzollern verwoest wordt door een witte dame. Het netwerk hield zich vooral bezig met het observeren van het treinverkeer in het door de Duitsers bezette deel van België. (nl)
|
gold:hypernym
| |
prov:wasDerivedFrom
| |
page length (characters) of wiki page
| |
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
| |
is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
of | |
is Wikipage disambiguates
of | |
is foaf:primaryTopic
of | |