Noor Inayat Khan

The hush in this hall and in its numerous cells is, quite frankly, not hushed at all.

While at Dachau last month I spent some time in the Bunker, or prison. It was just a few minutes before closing, and I was completely alone in this overwhelming building.

I thought mostly of Noor Inayat Khan, SOE spy, Sufi mystic, and princess by lineage. She was executed here at Dachau after a long and horrendous captivity in various locations. Despite brutal torture, she kept her silence and did not verbally betray her network.