Michèle Alfa

Michèle Alfa (born Joséphine Blanche Alfreda Bassignot; August 20, 1911 – August 24, 1987) was a French stage and film actress. After appearing mainly in supporting roles during the 1930s she starred in a number of films during the 1940s.

During the German occupation of France she became the lover of German officer Bernhardt Rademecker, who was the nephew of Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda, while Rademecker was stationed in Paris. She used her influence to secure the release of fellow actor Charles de Rochefort from an internment camp. She also hid leaders of the French Resistance.