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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Danica Kirka

Pat Owtram used her language skills to listen in on German U-boats during WWII

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

Pat Owtram didn’t need to go to war. It came to her.

As the Nazis took control of Germany and Austria, her father hired Jewish refugees to cook and clean at the family home in Lancashire, where the Owtram family raised pedigreed shorthorn cows and Pat rode a pony named Dolly.

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