Valeria Gedler died in obscurity in 1994. Only in recent years have Soviet archives been partially opened, revealing the full scale of her contributions. Historians now estimate that her intelligence shortened the war by months and saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

For two more years, Valeria continued her work, all while the Gestapo grew more suspicious. She was arrested once in 1944, but a forged identity and a well-timed bribe secured her release. She escaped to Switzerland just weeks before the fall of Berlin, her true identity never uncovered by the Nazis.

She got the message out just hours before the deadline. The Soviet commanders, led by General Zhukov, used her intelligence to reposition their reserves. When the German relief force struck, they slammed into a wall of fresh Soviet divisions. The relief failed. The Sixth Army was annihilated. The Battle of Stalingrad turned, and with it, the entire course of the war in the East.

In 1941, as Nazi Germany tore through Europe, Valeria received her most dangerous assignment: infiltrate the German high command. She was dispatched to Berlin, where she managed to secure a position as a low-level translator and typist at the Reich Air Ministry, overseen by Hermann Göring. To her Nazi superiors, she was a meticulous, apolitical Romanian bureaucrat. To the Third Reich, she was invisible.