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00:07April 1945, the war is entering its brutal final stages.
00:17The Nazis are surrounded as the UK and US advance into Germany from the west
00:26and the Soviets lay siege to Berlin from the east.
00:33As the Allied forces sweep through Europe, liberating the citizens,
00:41they begin to uncover the horrors of Nazi concentration camps.
00:50In London, the Allied advance brings news for Vera Atkins
00:57as one of her lost women spies, Yvonne Bazden arrives back
01:04at Euston railway station, but many of her agents remain missing,
01:10presumed dead, like Violet Sabo, who left her one-year-old child to fight the Nazis,
01:20or headstrong Noor Inayat Khan, who many said was unsuitable to be an agent.
01:26Are you ready?
01:27Yes, Miss Atkins.
01:29Vera begins the hunt to find her agents, dead or alive.
01:37Answer me!
01:38But she can't do it alone.
01:42So she turns to Britain's elite fighting service,
01:49the S.A.S., the S.A.S., and specialist Nazi hunter, Major Bill Barkworth.
02:00The S.A.S.
02:03Oh, no.
02:07Oh, no.
02:09Oh, no.
02:12Oh, no.
02:15Oh, no.
02:24Oh, no.
02:31It's the 28th of April, 1945, the Ravensbrück concentration camp for women in northern Germany, 90 kilometers north of Berlin.
02:45SOE agent Odette Sansom is in solitary confinement.
02:50Where is she? Come on, I need her now!
02:54But the camp is about to be overrun by the Soviet Red Army.
02:59At this point in the war, the Germans are completely on the back foot.
03:03They've got the Russians attacking from one side, the Red Army, and they've got the Americans and the British from
03:07the other side.
03:10Himmler has given the order that all witnesses to the horrors of the camp must be killed.
03:20The man who has come for Odette is Fritz Surin.
03:26Get up!
03:28Move!
03:30Yes! Up, up, up!
03:33Yes!
03:35Out! Out!
03:38Fritz Surin was the commandant of Ravensbrück concentration camp.
03:42It was a women's only camp, and Surin had complete control of everything that went on within it.
03:47So the forced labor programs that the women would be sent out into, the roundups for the executions,
03:53and also the medical experiments that were carried out at Ravensbrück.
03:56He would oversee those and have an understanding of what that meant.
04:01Move! Come on!
04:02Odette is about to see daylight for the first time in six months.
04:08But her life hangs in the balance.
04:21Surin flees the Soviet liberation of his camp,
04:25driving south of Berlin,
04:28towards the U.S. army line.
04:33As the Red Army and the Americans get closer to Ravensbrück,
04:38the commandant, Surin, panics.
04:40Because at this point, he knows he is going to get captured by one army or the other,
04:46and he's going to make that decision himself.
04:49He's going to pick a side, and so he goes for the Americans and the British.
04:53This is who he aims for.
04:57Surin takes Odette with him,
04:59believing she is the perfect bargaining chip to win him freedom.
05:06When Odette was captured,
05:08she gave the surname of her network chief,
05:11Churchill, as her own surname,
05:14convincing Surin that she is related to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
05:19Hands up!
05:22But Surin is about to get a nasty shock.
05:32Don't fire!
05:35Identify yourselves!
05:37This is Odette Churchill!
05:39Don't shoot!
05:40Get out!
05:42This is Odette Churchill,
05:44the niece of Winston Churchill!
05:46Don't fire!
05:48Who are you?
05:53My name is Odette Sanson.
05:57I'm a member of the British Special Operations Executive.
06:04This man is a war criminal.
06:13Can you imagine what Surin would have thought?
06:15Because immediately Odette announces
06:17that not only is she not Churchill's niece or any relation to him,
06:21but she's an SOE agent,
06:24and she just confesses everything,
06:25this key information that he's been after for ages.
06:28It must have been incredibly frustrating
06:29and also humiliating for him.
06:33Odette's final act of humiliation
06:36is to steal Surin's bag
06:38containing his personalised pistol.
06:41She hands him over to the Americans,
06:44watches while he's taken in,
06:45takes his bag,
06:46which has a pistol and his other belongings,
06:49and hands it over in London to Vera Adkins.
06:53It would have been a huge relief
06:55to finally get to safety.
06:57It would also be crucial
06:58because she knew about other agents.
07:00She could then give crucial information to Vera Adkins.
07:078th of May, 1945.
07:11The Nazis surrender.
07:17Victory in Europe.
07:24In London, thousands pour into the streets to celebrate
07:28as Churchill announces peace across the continent.
07:34For the SOE,
07:36it appears much of their work is done.
07:41But for Vera,
07:43her hunt is just beginning.
07:47Odette arrives back in London.
07:49She meets with Vera to debrief her
07:52and to see if she can help track down
07:54the lost women spies.
07:57It's so good
07:58to have you back.
08:08After they arrested me,
08:11I was
08:12kept in prison
08:14in Paris.
08:19Then the Gestapo came.
08:25Just tell us.
08:30I didn't tell them anything.
08:36They seem to know so much.
08:42About the circuits.
08:44Who was involved.
08:45Where.
08:46When.
08:51And then they took me over the border.
08:53Into Germany.
08:56Karlsruhe.
08:58With other women.
09:02Karlsruhe.
09:05And finally, Ravensbrook.
09:29And finally, Ravensbrook.
09:32Karlsruhe.
09:34You said there were other women.
09:45Odette describes
09:47seven female agents
09:48that she remembers
09:50from Karlsruhe.
10:00It's an important lead.
10:02for Vera.
10:09Nora Njerkan was
10:10one of Vera's
10:11favorite agents.
10:12One of the people
10:13she seems to really
10:13have cared about.
10:15When she was in training,
10:16there was some question mark
10:17as to whether or not
10:17Nora was good enough
10:19for the job
10:20because she seemed
10:21to be so kind.
10:22She said she could never lie.
10:23And yet Vera was really
10:24the one who gave
10:25the final approval
10:26and said,
10:27no, you're going to go
10:28and she'll be fine
10:29and it'll work.
10:36And Vera seems to have
10:38had a very guilty conscience,
10:40a very sort of deeply
10:41felt question
10:42as to what had happened
10:43to this delightful young woman
10:45who she really had been
10:47responsible for sending
10:48to France.
10:53I do.
10:55But no.
10:58Don't take my word for it, though.
11:01Ask the b****
11:02of the prison.
11:04Becca.
11:06Fraulein Becca.
11:09She ran the place.
11:13If anyone knows,
11:15she will.
11:21I think Vera's reaction
11:22to starting to uncover
11:24the stories of these women
11:25and to trace them
11:26to Karlsruher
11:27must have come
11:28as a real shock to her.
11:33To understand
11:34the dehumanizing process
11:36that they'd been put through
11:37right from their arrest
11:38and now they're
11:39in solitary confinement.
11:43These women
11:43that she would have
11:44last seen
11:44on an airfield in England
11:45full of life
11:46and full of hope
11:47and excitement
11:48for their missions
11:49suddenly in this
11:50horrible world,
11:52having experienced
11:52some brutal things already
11:54and just starting
11:56to unravel their stories
11:58and wondering
11:59what became of them
12:00after they left
12:00this prison
12:01at Karlsruher.
12:05Thanks to Odette,
12:08Vera has a major
12:09breakthrough
12:09in intelligence.
12:11It's important
12:12for Vera
12:13not only professionally
12:14but also personally.
12:18In a way,
12:20although Vera
12:20never had children
12:21herself,
12:21she does
12:22kind of have
12:24maternal qualities
12:26here
12:26in her investigation.
12:34Vera
12:35has the prison
12:36in Karlsruher
12:37in southern Germany
12:38as the last location
12:40for at least
12:41seven women.
12:44Vera
12:45also knows
12:46about the Ravensbrück
12:48women's concentration camp
12:50situated
12:51in north-eastern Germany.
12:54Ravensbrück
12:55was a concentration camp
12:56just north of Berlin
12:57and unlike every other
12:59concentration camp,
13:00it was for women.
13:01It was particularly
13:03horrifying
13:03for the sensibilities
13:05of people
13:05in the 1940s as well
13:07where women
13:08are meant to be
13:08kept out of combat,
13:09out of war
13:10and treated
13:10with some level
13:11of humanity.
13:12Ravensbrück
13:13was a particular
13:15horrific sight
13:16to end up in.
13:20It's from here
13:21that three agents
13:22including
13:23Yvonne Basden
13:24and Odette Sansom
13:27have come back
13:28alive.
13:33Ravensbrück
13:34is also
13:35the last known
13:36location
13:36for young mother
13:38and widow
13:39Violette Sabo.
13:47But there is one
13:49of Vera's agents
13:50that has not
13:51been spotted
13:51at either a prison
13:53or a camp,
13:55Nor Inayat Khan.
14:01There's a generally
14:03held sense
14:04that Nor,
14:05amongst the others,
14:06might be alive.
14:10And so she
14:11realises too
14:12that there's
14:12a tremendous
14:13amount of
14:13pressure on her
14:14that if she's
14:15going to find
14:15her missing agents
14:16she's going
14:17to have to
14:17do it fast.
14:20Vera can't
14:21travel to Germany
14:22and continue
14:23her investigations
14:24due to her
14:25low rank.
14:27So she enlists
14:28the help
14:29of an army unit
14:30who are hunting
14:31Nazis across
14:32post-war Germany.
14:34a unit
14:35that was founded
14:36just a few
14:37years before
14:38the SAS.
14:54The SAS
14:56or Special Air Service
14:58are an elite
14:59commando unit
15:00founded
15:01during the
15:01height of the
15:02war.
15:02The SAS
15:04were formed
15:05in the North
15:05African desert
15:06and the concept
15:07behind their
15:07kind of operations
15:08were these
15:08fast hit-and-run
15:10missions
15:10and they were
15:11deploying in
15:11these Willis
15:12jeeps which
15:13were very
15:13manoeuvrable
15:14and nimble
15:14and they were
15:15heavily armed
15:15with mounted
15:16machine guns
15:17and the idea
15:17was to carry out
15:19these hit-and-run
15:19raids largely
15:21targeting Italian
15:22and German
15:23airfields.
15:25And they were
15:26extremely successful
15:27in the North
15:28Africa campaign
15:29so in those
15:3018 months or so
15:31that they soldiered
15:32there, the SAS
15:33had destroyed
15:33387 proven
15:36enemy warplane
15:37kills.
15:37That's a
15:38spectacular
15:38achievement.
15:41But in the
15:42winter of 1942
15:43Hitler fights
15:45back.
15:47His Nazi
15:48high command
15:48issues the
15:50so-called
15:50commando order.
15:53what the
15:54commander
15:54order said
15:55was that
15:55any
15:56parachutist
15:57so any
15:58allied
15:58parachutist
15:59that could
15:59be SAS
15:59it could
16:00be commandos
16:00it could
16:01be special
16:01operations
16:02executive
16:02agents
16:03any of those
16:04captured
16:04behind the
16:05lines
16:05whether
16:06in uniform
16:07or out
16:07of uniform
16:08whether
16:08fighting
16:09or not
16:09fighting
16:10whether
16:10trying to
16:11surrender
16:11or not
16:12would be
16:12kept
16:12alive
16:13only
16:13for as
16:14long
16:14as
16:14it
16:14took
16:14the
16:14Gestapo
16:15and
16:16the
16:16SS
16:16to interrogate
16:17them
16:17and find
16:18out what
16:18they knew
16:19and then
16:20they would
16:20be shot
16:21out of hand
16:24in other
16:25words
16:25murdered
16:28and what
16:29that meant
16:30for the
16:30SAS
16:31is if
16:31you were
16:31captured
16:32it was
16:32a death
16:33sentence
16:34despite
16:35the order
16:36the SAS
16:37continue
16:38their raids
16:39and are
16:39a key part
16:40of the
16:40allied
16:41success
16:41in northern
16:42France
16:43that sees
16:44the Nazis
16:44defeated
16:49with the
16:49end of
16:50the war
16:50SAS
16:51major
16:52Bill
16:52Barkworth
16:53and a
16:53team
16:54are sent
16:54to
16:55Germany
16:55to hunt
16:56down
16:56the
16:56Nazis
16:57who
16:57carried
16:57out
16:58the
16:58commando
16:58order
16:59and bring
17:00them
17:00to
17:00justice
17:04Major
17:05Eric
17:05Bill
17:05Barkworth
17:06is an
17:06extraordinary
17:07figure
17:07in World
17:08War II
17:08and especially
17:09within
17:09Special Forces
17:10history
17:10he's
17:11eccentric
17:12he's
17:12single-minded
17:13he's a
17:14maverick
17:15he's a
17:15rule-breaker
17:16he's one
17:17of those
17:17very
17:18archetypal
17:19individuals
17:19who can
17:20think
17:20the
17:21absolute
17:21unthinkable
17:22but the
17:22other thing
17:22about
17:22Barkworth
17:23as well
17:23which is
17:24key to
17:24how he
17:25develops
17:25as a
17:26character
17:26during
17:26the war
17:27is he's
17:27got this
17:28unshakable
17:28moral compass
17:29his sense
17:30of right
17:31and wrong
17:31is
17:32absolutely
17:32inflexible
17:37Barkworth
17:38has
17:39commandeered
17:39a private
17:40villa
17:40the
17:41Villa
17:41Degler
17:43in
17:43Garganau
17:44near
17:45Karlsruhe
17:45on the
17:46edge
17:47of the
17:47Black
17:47Forest
17:51and
17:52he
17:52is
17:52here
17:52on
17:53a
17:53special
17:53mission
17:54for
17:54the
17:54SAS
17:59on
18:00the
18:0012th
18:00of
18:00August
18:011944
18:02an
18:03SAS
18:03team
18:03was
18:04dropped
18:04behind
18:05enemy
18:05lines
18:05in
18:06the
18:06Vosges
18:07mountains
18:07of
18:07eastern
18:08France
18:08to
18:09hit
18:09the
18:09Nazis
18:10before
18:10an
18:11allied
18:11advance
18:14but
18:15the
18:15team
18:15were
18:15tracked
18:16down
18:17and
18:1831
18:19soldiers
18:19were
18:20captured
18:26after
18:26months
18:27of
18:27interrogation
18:30the
18:31soldiers
18:31were
18:31taken
18:31to
18:32the
18:32woods
18:32stripped
18:33and
18:35shot
18:38such
18:38a loss
18:39of
18:39life
18:39would
18:40have
18:40a
18:40profound
18:40effect
18:41on
18:41everyone
18:42in
18:43the
18:43SAS
18:44when
18:45you
18:45are
18:46serving
18:46in
18:46a
18:47unit
18:47like
18:47the
18:47SAS
18:47in
18:48World
18:48War
18:48II
18:48you
18:49forge
18:50these
18:50bonds
18:50of
18:51brotherhood
18:51with
18:52your
18:52fellow
18:52operators
18:53which
18:53are
18:53extremely
18:55powerful
18:55and
18:56close
18:56if you
18:57read
18:57the
18:57accounts
18:57from
18:57people
18:58at
18:58the
18:58time
18:58or
18:58you
18:58interview
18:59veterans
18:59as I
18:59have
19:00and you
19:01speak
19:01about
19:01those
19:01kind
19:02of
19:02relationships
19:02they
19:03are
19:03very
19:03very
19:04very
19:05special
19:05it's
19:05the
19:06kind
19:06of
19:06spirit
19:07that
19:07means
19:07you
19:07will
19:08lay
19:08down
19:08your
19:08life
19:09for
19:10your
19:10fellow
19:10brother
19:10in
19:11arms
19:11and
19:11that's
19:11what
19:11so
19:11often
19:12happens
19:20Barkworth
19:21is
19:21determined
19:22to find
19:22those
19:23responsible
19:23for the
19:24deaths
19:25of the
19:2531
19:25SAS
19:26soldiers
19:30chief
19:31among
19:31them
19:33is
19:34Hans
19:34Kiefer
19:35the head
19:36of the
19:36SD
19:40the
19:41Nazi
19:41intelligence
19:42agency
19:42in
19:43Paris
19:45a
19:45man
19:46Vera
19:46also
19:46believes
19:47may
19:47know
19:48what
19:48happened
19:49to
19:49her
19:49lost
19:50women
19:50spies
19:54so
19:54Vera
19:55shares
19:55the
19:55photos
19:56of her
19:56agents
19:56with
19:57Barkworth
19:57in
19:58the
19:58hopes
19:59he
19:59can
19:59help
19:59her
20:01both
20:02Barkworth
20:02and
20:03Vera
20:03their
20:04investigations
20:04led
20:05them
20:05to
20:05one
20:05name
20:06and
20:06that
20:06was
20:06Hans
20:07Kiefer
20:09he
20:09was
20:10in
20:10charge
20:10of
20:10the
20:10SD
20:11he
20:11was
20:11responsible
20:12for
20:13all
20:13of
20:13the
20:13investigations
20:14that
20:14the
20:14Gestapo
20:15and
20:15the
20:15SD
20:15were
20:15doing
20:16in
20:16Paris
20:16so
20:17he
20:17was
20:17responsible
20:18for
20:18the
20:19interrogation
20:20of
20:20what
20:20the
20:21agents
20:21and
20:21what
20:21the
20:21soldiers
20:22of
20:22the
20:22SAS
20:22went
20:23through
20:26he
20:27was
20:27a
20:27spider
20:27at
20:28the
20:28center
20:28of
20:28the
20:28web
20:28issuing
20:29all
20:29these
20:29orders
20:30for
20:30interrogating
20:31and
20:31this
20:32is
20:32the
20:32man
20:32that
20:32they
20:32were
20:33desperate
20:33to
20:33find
20:34but
20:35as
20:35the
20:36atrocities
20:36of
20:37Kiefer
20:37and
20:38other
20:38Nazis
20:38come
20:39to
20:39light
20:39people
20:40back
20:41in
20:41the
20:41UK
20:41begin
20:42to
20:42ask
20:43some
20:44difficult
20:44questions
20:52Vera
20:53receives
20:54a
20:54letter
20:54alerting
20:55her
20:56to
20:56the
20:56actions
20:56of
20:57Violette
20:57Sabo's
20:58father
20:58Charles
20:59Bushell
21:03Violette
21:03has
21:03a
21:04child
21:04called
21:05Tanya
21:05and
21:06Bushell
21:06wants
21:07to
21:07know
21:07when
21:07the
21:08baby's
21:08mother
21:08will
21:09return
21:33Bushell
21:34is
21:34talking
21:35to
21:35his
21:35MP
21:35and
21:36giving
21:37interviews
21:37to
21:37the
21:37newspapers
21:38about
21:39his
21:39missing
21:40daughter
21:43for
21:43Vera
21:44and
21:44the
21:45SOE
21:45this
21:46could
21:46be
21:47a
21:47major
21:47problem
21:49Vera
21:50is
21:50in a
21:50very
21:50difficult
21:51situation
21:51because
21:52suddenly
21:53the
21:53war's
21:53over
21:54and
21:55these
21:55young
21:55women
21:56who've
21:56gone
21:56off
21:57to
21:57serve
21:57somewhere
21:57and
21:58their
21:58families
21:58don't
21:58know
21:59anything
21:59about
21:59what
21:59they
21:59really
22:00did
22:00in
22:00the
22:00SOE
22:01aren't
22:01coming
22:01home
22:07Violette
22:07Schabot's
22:08father
22:08who's
22:09been
22:09left
22:09with
22:09her
22:10infant
22:10daughter
22:11is
22:11starting
22:11to
22:11ask
22:12questions
22:12is
22:12starting
22:12to
22:13push
22:13for
22:13answers
22:13what's
22:14happened
22:14to
22:14my
22:15daughter
22:15why
22:15hasn't
22:15she
22:16come
22:16home
22:16and
22:16there
22:17are
22:17others
22:17starting
22:17to
22:17step
22:18forward
22:18and
22:18say
22:18listen
22:18we've
22:19heard
22:19nothing
22:20we
22:20don't
22:20know
22:20where
22:21they
22:21were
22:21serving
22:21we
22:21don't
22:22know
22:22what
22:22part
22:22of
22:23the
22:29and
22:29other
22:29acquaintances
22:30of
22:30these
22:31young
22:31women
22:31who've
22:31just
22:32suddenly
22:32vanished
22:34and
22:35Vera
22:36has
22:36another
22:37problem
22:39she
22:39has
22:40a
22:40new
22:40boss
22:43head
22:44of
22:44SOE
22:45F
22:45section
22:45Morris
22:46Buckmaster
22:47has
22:47returned
22:48to his
22:48civilian
22:49role
22:49of
22:50public
22:50relations
22:51manager
22:51at
22:52the
22:52Ford
22:52Motor
22:52Company
22:54he
22:55is
22:55replaced
22:55by
22:56new
22:56broom
22:59captain
22:59Norman
23:00Mott
23:01please
23:02have a
23:03seat
23:03a man
23:04who
23:04comes
23:05from
23:05the
23:05SOE
23:06security
23:06section
23:08and
23:09whose
23:09main
23:09interest
23:10is
23:11in
23:11keeping
23:11things
23:12secret
23:13Mott
23:14doesn't
23:15help
23:15Vera
23:15very
23:16much
23:16he
23:16doesn't
23:17see
23:17this
23:17as
23:17the
23:18sort
23:18of
23:18passionate
23:18necessity
23:19that
23:19Vera
23:20sees
23:20it
23:20as
23:20and
23:21she's
23:21now
23:22started
23:22to
23:22get
23:22information
23:23about
23:24the
23:24camps
23:27and
23:28she's
23:28pushing
23:29to
23:29see
23:29if
23:29she
23:29can
23:29get
23:30a
23:30chance
23:30to
23:31have
23:31some
23:31sort
23:31of
23:31contact
23:32or
23:33interrogate
23:34the
23:34heads
23:34of
23:34these
23:34camps
23:35where
23:35her
23:35agents
23:36might
23:36have
23:36ended
23:36up
23:39and
23:39yet
23:40she's
23:40given
23:40the
23:41cold
23:41shoulder
23:41she's
23:42really
23:42effectively
23:42told
23:43that
23:43this
23:44isn't
23:44of
23:44interest
23:45to
23:45the
23:45government
23:46this
23:46is
23:46not
23:46of
23:46interest
23:47to
23:47her
23:47former
23:47colleagues
23:48and
23:48would
23:49she
23:49please
23:49just
23:49leave
23:49it
23:50alone
23:56so
23:56it's
23:57really
23:57tense
23:58for
23:58Vera
23:58she
23:59doesn't
23:59know
23:59how
23:59much
23:59power
24:00she
24:00will
24:00have
24:00to
24:00carry
24:01on
24:01this
24:01investigation
24:02she
24:02needs
24:03to
24:03find
24:03out
24:03if
24:04there
24:04are
24:04agents
24:04surviving
24:05in
24:05these
24:05camps
24:05she
24:06has
24:06to
24:06find
24:07them
24:07before
24:07they
24:07are
24:07dead
24:08or
24:08gone
24:08or
24:09any
24:09evidence
24:10of
24:10them
24:10is
24:11wiped
24:11out
24:11so
24:12the
24:12timing
24:12is
24:12crucial
24:13and
24:13she
24:14is
24:14basically
24:14racing
24:15against
24:15the
24:15clock
24:17Vera
24:18has
24:18to
24:18fight
24:19to
24:19convince
24:19Mott
24:20and
24:24for
24:25her
24:25missing
24:25spies
24:29letters
24:30from
24:31agents
24:31relatives
24:31asking
24:32difficult
24:33questions
24:33puts
24:34pressure
24:34on
24:35the
24:35home
24:35office
24:38and
24:39after
24:39months
24:39of
24:40lobbying
24:40Vera
24:41gets
24:41her
24:42answer
24:44Vera
24:45will be
24:46given
24:46the rank
24:46of
24:47flight
24:47officer
24:48in
24:48the
24:49women's
24:49auxiliary
24:49air
24:50force
24:50allowing
24:51her
24:51to
24:52travel
24:52to
24:53Germany
24:56but
24:57she
24:57is
24:57told
24:57that
24:58she
24:58has
24:59just
24:59four
24:59days
25:00to
25:00demonstrate
25:01she
25:01can
25:02get
25:02results
25:14December
25:151945
25:19Vera's
25:20destination
25:20is
25:21Berlin
25:23a
25:24capital
25:24city
25:24in
25:25ruins
25:28a
25:29city
25:29conquered
25:29by
25:30the
25:30Soviet
25:30Union
25:34in
25:34among
25:35the
25:35destruction
25:35of
25:35Germany
25:36Vera
25:37has
25:37just
25:37a
25:38few
25:38days
25:38to
25:39prove
25:39her
25:39worth
25:40to
25:40the
25:40war
25:41office
25:45Vera
25:46Vera
25:46was
25:48to
25:48identify
25:48the
25:49grave
25:49of
25:50F
25:50sections
25:50male
25:51agent
25:51Clément
25:52Mark
25:53Jumeau
25:53who
25:54was
25:54believed
25:54to
25:55have
25:55died
25:55of
25:55tuberculosis
25:56at
25:57a
25:57hospital
25:57north
25:58of
25:58Berlin
25:59many
26:00women
26:00were sent
26:00to
26:00Germany
26:01post-war
26:01but
26:02mostly
26:02in
26:02secretarial
26:03roles
26:03or
26:04in
26:04a
26:04way
26:05to
26:05assist
26:05with
26:05the
26:06men
26:06of
26:06the
26:07armed
26:07forces
26:07who
26:08were
26:08trying
26:08to
26:08reconcile
26:09Germany
26:10but
26:10Vera
26:11was
26:11there
26:11in
26:11a
26:11totally
26:11different
26:12capacity
26:12she
26:13had
26:13a
26:13mission
26:14that
26:14she
26:14wanted
26:14to
26:15fulfil
26:20and
26:20although
26:21she
26:21was
26:21probably
26:21very
26:22nervous
26:22and
26:23had
26:23a
26:23sense
26:23of
26:23trepidation
26:24she
26:24really
26:25had
26:25to
26:25mask
26:25that
26:26and
26:26to
26:26go
26:26forward
26:27with
26:27an
26:27air
26:28of
26:28confidence
26:28and
26:29to
26:29prove
26:30that
26:30she
26:31was
26:31the
26:31right
26:31person
26:31to
26:32uncover
26:32the
26:32stories
26:33of
26:33the
26:33missing
26:33agents
26:35but
26:35Vera
26:36has
26:36a
26:36problem
26:36Jumeau's
26:38grave
26:38is
26:38most
26:39likely
26:39in
26:39Soviet
26:40controlled
26:40Germany
26:41north
26:41of
26:42Berlin
26:43after
26:44the
26:44fall
26:44of
26:44Germany
26:45the
26:45country
26:46is
26:46split
26:46into
26:46zones
26:47under
26:48control
26:48of
26:48the
26:48US
26:49the
26:49UK
26:49France
26:50and
26:51the
26:51Soviet
26:51Union
26:56at
26:57a
26:57checkpoint
26:57in
26:58Buch
26:58Vera
26:59is
26:59stopped
27:00by
27:00a
27:00Soviet
27:00sentry
27:01and
27:02her
27:02progress
27:02is
27:03halted
27:03to
27:18Vera
27:19is
27:19blocked
27:19from
27:20entering
27:20the
27:21Soviet
27:21zone
27:26if
27:27if
27:27Vera
27:27fails
27:28here
27:28she
27:29knows
27:29there
27:29is
27:29no
27:29chance
27:30that
27:30Mott
27:30and
27:31the
27:31war
27:31office
27:31would
27:32allow
27:32her
27:32to
27:33continue
27:33her
27:33investigations
27:36but
27:37then
27:37Vera
27:38addresses
27:39the
27:39sentry
27:39in
27:40Russian
27:43something
27:44the
27:44sentry
27:44would
27:45not
27:45have
27:46been
27:46expecting
27:48they
27:48come
27:49to
27:49a
27:49Russian
27:49checkpoint
27:50and
27:50she
27:51speaks
27:51in
27:51Russian
27:51and
27:52it
27:52must
27:52have
27:52been
27:53a
27:53real
27:53shock
27:53because
27:53for
27:54him
27:54she
27:55was
27:55a
27:55member
27:56of
27:56the
27:56WAF
27:56she
27:57was
27:57a
27:58lady
27:58in
27:58a
27:58blue
27:59uniform
27:59and
28:00suddenly
28:00she
28:00is
28:00speaking
28:00Russian
28:01which
28:02would
28:02have
28:02been
28:02something
28:02he
28:02would
28:03have
28:03been
28:03completely
28:03unprepared
28:04for
28:05Vera
28:06somehow
28:07not
28:08only
28:08speaks
28:08Russian
28:11but
28:11she
28:11does
28:12so
28:12with
28:12a
28:12level
28:12of
28:13fluency
28:13that
28:14the
28:14sentry
28:14lets
28:15them
28:15through
28:18Vera
28:18is
28:19able
28:19to
28:19continue
28:19her
28:20journey
28:20into
28:20the
28:21Soviet
28:21zone
28:21thanks
28:22to
28:22her
28:23unexpected
28:23ability
28:24to
28:24speak
28:25Russian
28:35at
28:36at
28:36the
28:36hospital
28:37Vera
28:38questions
28:38the
28:39staff
28:43and
28:44they
28:45direct
28:45her
28:45to
28:45the
28:46location
28:46of
28:47Jumeau's
28:47grave
28:51within
28:52within
28:52the
28:52first
28:52day
28:52of
28:53her
28:53time
28:53in
28:53Germany
28:54Vera
28:55proves
28:55to
28:55the
28:55war
28:56office
28:56and
28:57to
28:57Mott
28:57that
28:58her
28:58investigations
28:59get
28:59results
29:02now
29:02she can
29:02move
29:03on to
29:03the
29:03main
29:03reason
29:04for
29:04her
29:04journey
29:06Ravensbrück
29:16Ravensbrück
29:17the
29:21women's
29:21camp
29:2590
29:26kilometers
29:26north
29:27of
29:27Berlin
29:32Ravensbrück
29:33is
29:33hideous
29:34camp
29:35which
29:35was
29:36set
29:36up
29:36specifically
29:37to
29:38hold
29:38women
29:38and
29:39tens
29:39of
29:40thousands
29:40of
29:40women
29:41died
29:41there
29:41I
29:42think
29:42over
29:4250,000
29:43women
29:43were
29:43imprisoned
29:44there
29:48Ravensbrück
29:49is of
29:49particular
29:50interest
29:50to
29:51Vera
29:51because
29:51she
29:52interviewed
29:53Odette
29:53who'd
29:54come out
29:54of
29:54Ravensbrück
29:55who had
29:56told her
29:56about her
29:57agents
29:57who were
29:58there
29:58so
29:58Ravensbrück
29:59seems to
29:59be
29:59the
30:00place
30:00the
30:01concentration
30:01camp
30:02where
30:02a lot
30:02of
30:02her
30:03agents
30:03disappeared
30:05Vera
30:06is here
30:06to interrogate
30:08the
30:08commandant
30:08Fritz
30:09Soeren
30:10Ravensbrück
30:11camp
30:11is the
30:12camp
30:12which
30:13Odette
30:13left
30:14alive
30:14it is
30:15also
30:16the
30:16last
30:16known
30:16location
30:17of
30:18Vera's
30:18missing
30:19agent
30:19Violette
30:20Sabo
30:20along
30:21with
30:21two
30:22others
30:22Lillian
30:23Rolf
30:23and
30:24Denise
30:24Block
30:27Sueren
30:27holds
30:28the
30:28key
30:28to
30:28not
30:29just
30:29one
30:29but
30:30possibly
30:30the
30:30lives
30:31of
30:31three
30:31of
30:32her
30:32agents
30:34the
30:35pressure
30:35is
30:36on
30:38Vera
30:39is not
30:39particularly
30:40experienced
30:41yet
30:41at
30:41interrogations
30:43and
30:43she
30:43knows
30:44he
30:44has
30:44information
30:47he
30:48knows
30:48everything
30:48that
30:48went
30:49on
30:49in
30:49the
30:49camp
30:49and
30:49if
30:50there
30:50were
30:50special
30:51prisoners
30:52considered
30:52to
30:52be
30:52agents
30:53he
30:53would
30:54have
30:54known
30:59how
31:00many
31:00English
31:00women
31:01were
31:02at
31:02the
31:02camp
31:06there
31:07were
31:07no
31:07English
31:08women
31:08at
31:09the
31:09camp
31:11Odette
31:12is
31:12English
31:14she
31:15was
31:15a
31:15special
31:15prisoner
31:17for
31:17whom
31:17I
31:18had
31:18special
31:18responsibilities
31:20because
31:21we
31:21thought
31:21she
31:21was
31:22related
31:22to
31:22Churchill
31:25so
31:26the
31:26other
31:26English
31:27women
31:28how
31:29many
31:29were
31:30there
31:32I
31:33already
31:33told
31:34you
31:34there
31:35were
31:36no
31:37others
31:38I
31:39have
31:39testimony
31:40that
31:40there
31:40were
31:48answer
31:48answer
31:49me
31:52I
31:53have
31:53nothing
31:54else
31:54to
31:54say
32:00Suryan
32:01Suryan
32:01Vera
32:02nothing
32:12without any new evidence
32:14Vera leaves Ravensbrück
32:16and returns to London
32:18empty handed
32:29back in London
32:30Vera gets some news
32:32that could prevent her
32:33from ever finding her agents
32:35have a read please
32:40she is informed
32:42that F section
32:43is to be closed down
32:45permanently
32:48Norman Morton tells Vera
32:50that she's to wind down
32:52she's to close the office
32:53and really nobody's very interested
32:55in what's happening
32:56to these agents of hers
33:02there is no sense
33:04that there should be
33:05accounts from surviving agents
33:07which is what we see
33:08from other military
33:09intelligence departments
33:11so there's no accountability
33:13there's no learning
33:15from the mistakes of the past
33:18SOE was so embarrassed
33:20by some of its mistakes
33:21that it was just going to
33:23hush everything up
33:24and close it down
33:25as quickly as possible
33:28if F section is shut down
33:30it would see Vera
33:32without the mandate
33:33to find her lost women spies
33:36they would remain
33:37missing
33:38presumed dead
33:41but for Vera
33:42this wasn't acceptable
33:43it wasn't fair
33:45it wasn't fair on them
33:46it wasn't fair on their families
33:47and so she was determined
33:49to find out
33:49what had happened
33:50particularly to the young women agents
33:53that she had personally
33:54sent to France
34:03what Vera needs
34:05is new evidence
34:07that will shock her bosses
34:08into letting her continue
34:21Vera receives word
34:23from SAS Major Barkworth
34:25about evidence
34:26from a secret concentration camp
34:30a camp
34:31that has been liberated
34:32and filmed
34:33by US forces
34:37known as
34:39Nazweiler Strutov
34:40the camp is hidden
34:41in the Vosges mountains
34:42of eastern France
34:44close to the German border
34:52it is the only camp
34:54the Nazis build
34:55in France
34:57a camp built
34:59to destroy
34:59the French resistance
35:05on the 7th of December
35:061941
35:07Hitler passes an order
35:10codenamed
35:11Night and Fog
35:14this secret order
35:15means anyone believed
35:17to be endangering
35:18German security
35:19can be abducted at night
35:21and without trial
35:22taken
35:23to Nazweiler
35:26people would be
35:27according to the Nazi order
35:29turned
35:30into mist
35:33it's a way of punishing people
35:35that was more feared
35:37than any other
35:41but it's what Barkworth
35:43includes next
35:44in his report
35:45that has the most
35:46shocking impact
35:47on Vera's hunt
35:48for her lost
35:49women
35:50spies
36:01Vera reads
36:02Barkworth's interrogation
36:04report
36:04of a former prisoner
36:06at Natsweiler
36:07Franz Berg
36:27Berg tells Barkworth
36:29he worked in the
36:31crematorium
36:31as a stoker
36:34one day
36:35in July 1944
36:37Berg
36:38and the other stokers
36:39are told to expect
36:40some English women
36:45from his crematorium
36:47cell
36:47he witnesses
36:49their arrival
36:55Franz gives a
36:57detailed deposition
36:58he describes
37:00these English women
37:01who come
37:02and on the night
37:03he says that
37:04the head of the crematorium
37:06has told him
37:07to light the fires
37:08and take it
37:09to the hottest point
37:10by 9.30pm
37:12they are hearing
37:13that these girls
37:14are going to be killed
37:15by lethal injection
37:20they see three women
37:22being dragged
37:23these are the English women
37:24two are unconscious
37:25one of them
37:26seems to be moving
37:27there's groans
37:27and grunts
37:28and one even speaks
37:29and says
37:30purkwa
37:32they are then
37:33dragged into the crematorium
37:34they can't see anymore
37:35and they say later
37:36that one of the women
37:37was alive
37:38and had scratched
37:39one of the men
37:40who had come
37:41then they heard
37:42the crematorium doors
37:43being shut
37:44and they knew
37:45it was all being fired up
37:49after that
37:50there's silence
37:54it's horror
37:55at what these girls
37:57would have gone through
37:58there is no way
37:59when they prepared them
38:00for their training
38:01for the torture
38:02that might lie ahead
38:03they would have envisaged
38:05something like this
38:10after being shown
38:11Vera's photographs
38:12of her missing spies
38:14Berg says
38:15that he believes
38:16one of the women
38:16brought to the crematorium
38:19is Noor Inayat Khan
38:24Vera would have been
38:26absolutely horrified
38:27and the thought
38:28that this could have been
38:29Noor as well
38:29I mean horrified
38:30for all the girls
38:35and the fact
38:36that maybe
38:37this is what happened
38:38to Noor
38:38is something
38:39that really haunted her
38:52armed with Berg's testimony
38:54from Natsweiler
38:56Vera heads
38:57to her superiors
38:59she will not
39:01give up
39:01on her women
39:11Berg's testimony
39:12makes disturbing reading
39:14for the British
39:15security services
39:23Whitehall will be
39:24deeply troubled
39:25by the evidence
39:26that Vera
39:27is actually gaining
39:28of the sheer horror
39:29of the concentration camps
39:31because let's not forget
39:32that the public
39:33don't know
39:34that women
39:35were sent
39:36behind enemy lines
39:39Whitehall would not want
39:40this highly secret
39:42organisation
39:42the SOE
39:43knowledge of it
39:44to come out
39:45but even more sensitive
39:47and potentially
39:49a public outcry
39:50to hear that women
39:51had been dropped
39:52into these dangerous areas
39:54and that some
39:55of them
39:56hadn't come back
39:56and had been
39:57horrifically tortured
40:00after seeing Berg's testimony
40:02MI6 agree
40:03to fund Vera
40:04for another three months
40:06of investigations
40:07in the hope
40:08that Vera
40:09can keep the story
40:10of the lost women spies
40:11out of the public eye
40:16Vera heads back
40:41to Germany
40:41Vera is assigned
40:42to the war crimes unit
40:44at the British Army
40:45headquarters
40:45in Germany
40:48the war crimes unit
40:49was based
40:49at Bad Orenhausen
40:51which was the headquarters
40:52of the British Army
40:54on the Rhine
40:54so it was a very
40:56important place
40:57and the war crimes unit
40:58was really trying
40:59to find high-ranking Nazis
41:01people who would have
41:02been involved
41:03in what we would call
41:04war crimes
41:05so with executions
41:07with maltreatment
41:08of prisoners
41:09with the concentration
41:10camp system
41:11in general
41:11and the idea
41:13would not only be
41:13to find these officers
41:15but also to find evidence
41:17about crimes against humanity
41:19that they had committed
41:20so various murders
41:22or procedures
41:24that they had followed
41:25that were against
41:26the Geneva Convention
41:30Vera will support
41:31the British judges
41:32in their evidence gathering
41:39Vera's main role
41:41within the war crimes unit
41:42was to trace
41:42the missing SOE agents
41:44and her job would be
41:45to trace them
41:47as best she could
41:48this was going to be
41:49exceptionally difficult
41:50for her
41:50as the prisoners
41:51were classified
41:52as Nacht und Nabel
41:54night and fog
41:54so most records
41:55would technically
41:56have disappeared
41:57if they'd ever been
41:58kept in the first place
41:59but her job
42:00was to trace them
42:01through the various
42:02prison systems
42:03that they'd been through
42:04had they gone into camps
42:05and not only to trace them
42:07but to trace the people
42:08responsible for their imprisonment
42:10and murders
42:11if that was going to be the case
42:16Vera begins
42:17by tracing back
42:18her agent's whereabouts
42:19before they get to the camp
42:22at Natsweiler
42:24and her attention turns
42:26to a witness
42:27who could hold the key
42:29it's a name given to Vera
42:31by Odette Sansom
42:33it is the chief warder
42:35of Karlsruhe prison
42:37Fräulein Becker
42:44Vera leaves
42:45the war crimes office
42:46headed for Karlsruhe prison
42:48in the hope
42:49that finding Becker
42:50might give her
42:51the information
42:52she needs
42:56Fräulein Becker
42:57would have been
42:58really important
42:58for Vera
42:59to get her hands on
43:00she'd been identified
43:01in one of the affidavits
43:02of the surviving agents
43:03anyway
43:04and Vera needed
43:05to go out
43:06and find her
43:07because as the chief wardress
43:08she would have received
43:09all new prisoners
43:10coming into Karlsruhe
43:12she would have met them
43:13personally
43:13taken away
43:14their personal effects
43:15made a record
43:17of what they were
43:17she would have also
43:18recorded their names
43:20so be they real names
43:22or their aliases
43:23she would have recorded
43:24the names of the SOE women
43:25going into that prison
43:34on arrival at the prison
43:36Vera discovers
43:37that Fräulein Becker
43:39hasn't even left
43:40her post
43:42as chief warder
43:45Vera can now
43:47begin her questioning
43:52Karlsruhe was technically
43:54a civilian prison
43:55so it wasn't really
43:56used for political prisoners
43:58which arguably
43:58the SOE agents were
44:00when they arrived
44:02at Karlsruhe
44:02they were put
44:04into solitary confinement
44:09food would have been
44:10pretty grim
44:11and very scarce
44:13they would have only
44:13had the clothes
44:14they were standing up in
44:15and we know
44:16that the cells
44:17were quite sparse
44:18a single bed
44:19maybe a bucket
44:19for a toilet
44:20so it was
44:21a very grim place
44:26I didn't want them here
44:28this is a regular prison
44:29not for politicals
44:30like them
44:31they should never
44:32have been here
44:44them
44:45them
45:07yes
45:11all of them
45:16and they all left
45:17in July 1944
45:21no
45:23the one you mentioned
45:24Adette
45:25she left then
45:27the others
45:28it was later in the year
45:31so these seven
45:33in the photographs
45:34they didn't leave
45:36in July
45:36that's what I said
45:37they left later
45:41I need to see
45:42your records
45:43now please
45:44we don't have any
45:47I can't imagine that
45:50the French
45:52when they came
45:52they destroyed everything
45:53smashed it all up
45:58all gone
46:08thank you
46:09Fraulein Becker
46:11I'm sure I'll see you
46:16again soon
46:16Vera
46:17doesn't have the written
46:19records she needs
46:20as evidence
46:21but she does have
46:22something more
46:23important
46:25Becker's testimony
46:26directly contradicts
46:28the evidence
46:29of the crematorium
46:30stoker at
46:31Natsweiler
46:31Franz Berg
46:34Berg
46:35stated that
46:35four women
46:36are killed
46:37killed at the
46:37Natsweiler camp
46:38in July
46:391944
46:401944
46:41but Becker
46:42claims that
46:43including
46:43Nors
46:44seven of
46:45Vera's lost
46:46women spies
46:46are still in
46:48Karlsruhe prison
46:49later than
46:50July 1944
46:51so those women
46:53could not
46:53have been the ones
46:54killed
46:55at Natsweiler
46:57Vera already
46:58Vera already has
46:59an eyewitness
47:00testimony from
47:00Natsweiler saying
47:01that Nors
47:02is dead
47:03and now she has
47:04another eyewitness
47:04testimony saying
47:05no that is not
47:06true she is here
47:07she needs some
47:09sort of
47:09corroborating evidence
47:10to prove where
47:12Nors is one way
47:13or the other
47:15Vera leaves
47:16Becker and
47:17Karlsruhe with the
47:19chance that
47:20some of her
47:20lost women
47:21spies could
47:22still be
47:23alive
47:55see you
47:56after
47:56that
47:57in
47:57you
47:57you
47:59you
48:00you
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