London, Aug 26 (ANI): A British brigadier's teenage daughter who was trapped in France during the Nazi invasion, was suspected of becoming a Gestapo officer's mistress, secret MI5 records have revealed.
Antonia Lyon-Smith was only 15 years old and separated from her parents when the Germans arrested her and sent her to an internment camp. She was later released on the grounds of her age, but ran into trouble again after becoming involved with a prominent Resistance group and was threatened with being deported to a concentration camp in Poland, the Scotsman reports. he was rescued by a Gestapo chief who kept her as his housekeeper in his Paris offices, where a Nazi officer called Karl Gagel fell in love with her and made her promise to marry him once the war was over.
Despite being interrogated by MI5, she avoided disclosing anything about her relationship with Gagel, leading a British intelligence officer to conclude she was his mistress and "almost certainly" betrayed all her knowledge of the Resistance cell to the Germans.
In 1982, she had written her memoir mentioning that Gagel was only one of the men she was engaged to during the war, but insisted that she did not end up marrying anyone.
The daughter of Royal Artillery officer Brigadier Tristram Lyon-Smith and a Canadian mother, the English schoolgirl was staying with her cousin in Concarneau, Brittany, northern France, when the Second World War broke out.
In December 1940, German soldiers took her into custody, along with other Britons, and held her in an internment camp in Besancon, eastern France. (ANI)
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