Mary Lindell was an English First World War nurse who remained in France and organized extraction work early in the German occupation. She used a Red Cross nursing uniform when meeting people at railway stations, turning a familiar professional identity into cover for an escape line. After imprisonment at Ravensbrück, her nursing experience helped her obtain hospital work and act as a leader for British and American prisoners. Allegations about her relationship with a German doctor remain doubtful in this account, and prisoners defended a physician they believed had observed basic medical obligations.
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Mary Lindell from escape work to Ravensbrück
A First World War nurse became an early escape-line organizer and later used her medical experience and authority among prisoners at Ravensbrück.