The Assassination of Colonel Straub occurred in August 1940 during World War II. French Resistance leader Luc Gaudin sent his lover, Veronique Rousseau, to assassinate German Wehrmacht colonel Straub with a package bomb, as she would not attract any attention from the guards. Sean Devlin drove Rousseau to retrieve the package from the guards, and Devlin then drove her to the target building, not knowing the true purpose of Rousseau's mission. Rousseau told the guards that she was delivering some cheese and wine to Colonel Straub, allowing for her to quickly enter the building, activate the bomb, and escape in Devlin's car. The bombing killed Colonel Straub and the two guards standing outside of the building; it was unknown if there were any other occupants of the building who were killed or harmed. The bombing weakened the German occupation of Paris, and it confirmed Rousseau's commitment to the Resistance's struggle against the Nazis.
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Assassination of Colonel Straub
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