Did you know Mega-musical star Josephine Baker, was also a spy in World War 2 for the French Air Force!
Did you know Mega-musical star Josephine Baker, was also a spy in World War 2 for the French Air Force! In France, she found fame and freedom after fleeing racism in America. At the height of her career, she led a double life. She became a spy informing on the Nazis. Did you know Mega-musical star Josephine Baker, was also a spy in World War 2 for the French Air Force! In France, she found fame and freedom after fleeing racism in America. At the height of her career, she led a double life. She became a spy informing on the Nazis. In 1934 she also became the first black woman to star in a major motion picture. Her ongoing popularity in Paris in the forties gave her access to parties, embassies and ministries where high-ranking officials gathered. Rather than simply enjoy her position and focus on her career, Baker used her access to extract valuable top-secret information and pass it on to French military intelligence. Once the Nazis occupied France, Josephine moved to the South of Fran...