Noor Inayat Khan was executed by the Nazis at Dachau concentration camp on 13 September 1944.
On 13 September 1944, Noor Inayat Khan was executed by the Nazis at Dachau concentration camp in Germany, along with three other female SOE agents. Witness testimony from a camp prisoner who survived indicates she was brutally beaten before being shot, and that her final word was reportedly "Liberté" (Liberty).
Her death came after nearly a year of imprisonment, much of it in solitary confinement, shackled, and subjected to harsh treatment as a classified Nacht und Nebel ("Night and Fog") prisoner — a designation intended to make prisoners disappear without a trace and prevent any communication of their fate to the outside world.
Despite immense psychological and physical hardship, she reportedly never revealed operational secrets to her captors. Her execution, alongside fellow SOE agents Yolande Beekman, Eliane Plewman, and Madeleine Damerment, represents one of the tragic culminations of the immense sacrifices made by Allied secret agents operating behind enemy lines.
Her death at just 30 years old, and the courage she displayed throughout her imprisonment, transformed her into a lasting symbol of resistance, earning her posthumous recognition as one of the most celebrated women of British and Indian wartime history.