Juan Pujol Garcia was a Christian male from Spain who is a Righteous Gentiles.before ww2 he was working in a lot of different jobs such as businessman, A movie theater owner, a cavalry officer, and a Spanish Civil War soldier. He was a graduate of the Royal Poultry School and ran a poultry farm near Barcelona. But Juan failed all his jobs. He was married to Araceli, and they had a kid. During the war, he was working as a double agent, and he was sabotaging the nazis.
his contribution:
he was a double spy on the nazis and gave them regularly wrong information about the war, and that helped him sabotage the nazis plan.
One of his most significant operations was Operation Fortitude. The purpose of the purpose was to make the Germans believe that the invasion would be for Fa-de-Calais (Fortitude South), just as Hitler claimed. It was not until August 30 that Puyol reported that the planned attack on Feh-de-Calais had been canceled.
In his dealings with Germany, he continued to present himself as a loyal Nazi until the last minute, even after Hitler’s suicide, while “breaking down” his network, whose people had already lost their faith in Germany’s victory. During his three years of operation as an agent, Puyol sent 1,399 broadcasts and 423 letters to his German operators.
bibliography: Wikipedia https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/חואן_פויול_גארסיה
- there weren’t pictures of him on the internet so I haven’t added

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