BROADCASTS.com

Violette Morris, a powerhouse athlete with 14-inch biceps, discovered a love for trousers and fast driving while piloting ambulances for the Red Cross during the First World War. But her outrageous and mannish style \u2013 she dated Josephine Baker, smoked, and cut her breasts off to better fit behind the wheel of a race car \u2013 outraged the respectable upper-middle-class world of women's athletics. And when she was cast out of respectable society, she became a Nazi spy and a sadistic torturer known as the "hyena of the Gestapo."\n----more----\nSOURCES:\n\nColvin, Kelly Ricciardi. Gender and French Identity after the Second World War, 1944-1954: Engendering Frenchness. London\u202f; New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.\nDoyle, Jack. \u201cHow a Pioneering Lesbian Became the Nazis\u2019 \u2018Hyena.\u2019\u201d OZY, May 25, 2015. http://test-2017-elb-web-us-west-2.aws.ozymandias.com/flashback/how-a-pioneering-lesbian-became-the-nazis-hyena/40366.\nKessler, Martin. \u201cViolette Morris: Pioneering Female Athlete Turned Nazi Spy.\u201d WBUR, February 24, 2017. https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2017/02/24/gestapo-hitler-book-anne-sebba.\nMansky, Jackie, and Maya Wei-Haas. \u201cThe Rise of the Modern Sportswoman.\u201d Smithsonian Magazine, August 18, 2016. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/rise-modern-sportswoman-180960174/.\nPapirblat, Shlomo. \u201cSporting Champion, Feminist Icon, Nazi Spy? The Extraordinary Life of Violette Morris.\u201d Haaretz.Com. Accessed December 21, 2020. https://www.haaretz.com/life/books/.premium-sporting-champion-feminist-icon-nazi-spy-the-crazy-life-of-violette-morris-1.6869492.\nStryker, Susan. Transgender History. Seal Press, 2008.\nFemBio: Frauen.Biografieforschung. \u201cViolette Morris.\u201d Accessed December 21, 2020. https://www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/biographie/violette-morris/.\n\xa0\n\n\nOur intro music is\xa0Arpeggia Colorix\xa0by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU's Free Music Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons\xa0Attribution-ShareAlike License. Our outro music is by DJ\xa0Michaeloswell Graphicsdesigner.