A bronze statue, sculpted by London-based artist Karen Newman, was unveiled by Britain’s Princess Anne on November 8, 2012. You can see a photo of the unveiling below. Personally, I don’t care for this sculpture. I think that Noor should not be shown with her head bowed. She should have her head lifted with a defiant expression on her face, as she shouts Liberté, her last dying word, before she was shot in the head at Dachau, as witnessed by a prisoner who came forward years later. (Lies about Noor Inayat Khan have been told so often that they are now true lies.)
A reader of my blog make a comment on a previous post that I wrote about Noor Inayat Khan, the famous “Spy Princess” in the British SOE. He mentioned that there was a witness to the arrival of Noor at Dachau. I found this hard to believe until I saw a YouTube video in which someone said that Noor had arrived at Dachau “in chains.” That would have been quite a sight; every prisoner in the camp would have pushed forward to see this spectacale.
Many survivors of Dachau are still alive, and I am not surprised that someone has finally come forward to tell about witnessing the arrival of Noor at Dachau. The words “in chains” are at 2:10 in the YouTube video which has been copyrighted, and cannot be shown here.
My photo below shows the gatehouse at Dachau, as it looked in 2007
Gatehouse entrance to Dachau concentration camp
As my photos of the Dachau gatehouse show, everyone inside the camp would have been able to see Noor hobbling through the gate with her feet in chains. With so many prisoners to witness the coming and going of people into the camp, there was no need for the men in the gatehouse to keep records of arrivals and departures. A bar over the pedestrian door on the gate could be removed to allow entry into the camp without opening the entire gate which was operated by remote control in the gatehouse. So it would have been easy to sneak Noor Inayat Khan into Dachau with no one in the gatehouse knowing about it. (There are no records of her entry into Dachau.)
Gatehouse and Arbeit Macht Frei gate at Dachau
Unfortunately, I have been unable to find any information on the name of the witness who saw Noor arrive in chains. I have also not been able to find any photos of prisoners arriving at Dachau in chains. The old photo below, which is on my own website, shows German war criminals marching out of Dachau.
The photo above shows German “war criminals” leaving Dachau, which had been converted into War Crimes Enclosure No. 1 after the Dachau concentration camp was liberated and Germany surrendered to the Allies. Note that they are not “in chains.”
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