Laszlo Almasy was an explorer known by the Bedouin as "Father of the sand" who explored two million square kilometers of the Saharan desert, mapping and making several discoveries, including stone-age painted dugouts. Hollywood loosely based the movie "The English Patient" on Almasy, with his character's heart being broken by a woman before he dies as a hero.
Love letters from the Nazi agent to a soldier named Hans, as well as at least one prince, show that Laszlo Almasy was not interested in women. His 1942 "Operation Salam" was perhaps his most daring act when he smuggled Nazi agents into British-occupied Egypt.
To do this Almasy revealed that he had a hiding place in the desert for the operation's supplies, a hiding place that had recently been found by an Austrian expedition.
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