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Josephine Baker hid Nazi secrets in invisible ink

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Being a world-famous Black cabaret star in Paris is cool, but weaponizing your fame against the Nazis is iconic. Josephine Baker used her celebrity status to charm Axis diplomats at embassy parties, memorize their troop movements, and smuggle the intel written in invisible ink on her sheet music. She literally danced her way through enemy lines to save France.

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