Although I appreciate this tribute to a unique , fascinating and heroic woman , the producers do not seem to have researched her story at all thoroughly . Examples abound . 1. The film indicates that until shortly before her capture she had avoided the Suresnes neighborhood in which she had grown up and would be recognized. In fact she visited the area regularly and transmitted frequently from a house there , convinced that no one in her old neighborhood would betray her despite that part of suburban Paris being heavily occupied by Germans and her childhood home taken over as a barracks. 2. Ernst Vogt who interrogated Noor while imprisoned at 84 Avenue Foch is portrayed as a stereoyped overweight arrogant cold-blooded Nazi type . When biographer Jean Overton Fuller met with him after the war she describes him as tall and extremely thin , and her account and other reliable sources indicate that for a German interrogator his relations with prisoners were unusually lacking in brutality and almost amiable - Vogt ( a Swiss-German civilian and not a member of the Nazi Party ) says that he had to remind Noor not to forget that he was her enemy and goes on to describe her as possibly the best human being he had met in his life ( he was imprisoned for 5 years by several countries before being cleared of all war crimes charges . ) 3. Noor's rooftop escape attempt at Avenue Foch has been described in considerable detail by John Starr , who participated in it. When Jean Fuller visited the site she found that a window Starr recounts being broken to enter a neighboring building had still not been repaired. She also found the remains of papers he had stashed in a flower pot. Enemy of the Reich portrays the escape incident in a routine , perfunctory manner suggesting little awareness of the actual story ( and there should be only 3 bars on the vents by which they climbed to the roof - a minor detail , but well documented so why not get it right ) . Not to belabor the subject , I thank the producers for this tribute to the immortal Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan , a.k.a. Nora Baker , Jeanne-Marie Renier & Madeleine, but wish they had found it possible to research and convey her story with greater depth and accuracy .
