"During World War II, a 56-year-old British noblewoman
stood up to Nazi occupiers on the tiny island of Sark"
In June 1940, German forces took the Channel Islands, a small British
dependency off the coast of France. They expected the occupation to go
easily, but they hadn't reckoned on the island of Sark, ruled by an
iron-willed noblewoman with a disdain for Nazis. In this week's episode
of the Futility Closet podcast we'll tell the story of Sibyl Hathaway
and her indomitable stand against the Germans.