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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.
02:31It's the 28th of April 1945.
02:36The Ravensbrück concentration camp for women in northern Germany, 90 kilometres north of Berlin.
02:45SOE agent Odette Sansom is in solitary confinement.
02:53But 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.
03:02They'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.
03:21The man who has come for Odette is Fritz Surin.
03:37Fritz 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 labour programs that the women would be sent out into, the roundups for the executions, and also
03:53the 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.
04:12Come on!
04:14Come on!
04:16Come on!
04:21Come on!
04:21Surin flees the Soviet liberation of his camp, driving south of Berlin, towards the U.S. army line.
04:33As the Red Army and the Americans get closer to Ravensbrück, the commandant, Surin, panics, because at this point he
04:42knows he is going to get captured by one army or the other, and he's going to make that decision
04:49himself.
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, believing she is the perfect bargaining chip to win him freedom.
05:06When Odette was captured, she gave the surname of her network chief, Churchill, as her own surname, convincing Surin that
05:16she 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, because immediately Odette announces that not only is she not Churchill's niece
06:20or any relation to him, but she's an SOE agent, and she just confesses everything, this key information that he's
06:27been after for ages.
06:27It must have been incredibly frustrating and also humiliating for him.
06:33Odette's final act of humiliation is to steal Surin's bag containing his personalised pistol.
06:41She hands him over to the Americans, watches while he's taken in, takes his bag, which has a pistol and
06:48his other belongings, and hands it over, in London, to Vera Atkins.
06:53It would have been a huge relief to finally get to safety.
06:57It would also be crucial, because she knew about other agents.
07:00She could then give crucial information to Vera Atkins.
07:078th of May, 1945.
07:12The Nazis surrender.
07:17Victory in Europe.
07:24In London, thousands pour into the streets to celebrate, as Churchill announces peace across the continent.
07:34For the SOE, it appears much of their work is done.
07:41But for Vera, her hunt is just beginning.
07:47Odette arrives back in London.
07:49She meets with Vera to debrief her, and to see if she can help track down the lost women spies.
07:57It's so good to have you back.
08:08After they arrested me, I was kept in prison in 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, where, when.
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.
09:34Karlsruhe.
09:34You said there were other women.
09:45Odette describes seven female agents that she remembers from Karlsruhe.
10:00It's an important lead for Vera.
10:08Nora Nirkhan was one of Vera's favorite agents.
10:12One of the people she seems to really have cared about.
10:15When she was in training, there was some question mark as to whether or not Nora was
10:18good enough for the job because she seemed to be so kind.
10:22She said she could never lie.
10:23And yet Vera was really the one who gave the final approval and said,
10:27no, you're going to go and she'll be fine and it'll work.
10:36And Vera seems to have had a very guilty conscience, a very sort of deeply felt question as to what
10:43had happened to this delightful young woman who she really had been responsible for sending to France.
10:53It's pretty, but no.
10:58Don't take my word for it though.
11:01Ask the b**** at the prison.
11:04Becca.
11:06Fraulein Becca.
11:09She ran the place.
11:13If anyone knows, she will.
11:21I think Vera's reaction to starting to uncover the stories of these women and to trace them to
11:26Karlsruhe must have come as a real shock to her.
11:33To understand the dehumanizing process that they'd been put through right from their arrest
11:38and now they're in solitary confinement.
11:43These women that she would have last seen on an airfield in England full of life and full of hope
11:47and excitement for their missions suddenly in this horrible world, having experienced some brutal
11:53things already and just starting to unravel their stories and wondering what became of them after
12:00they left this prison at Karlsruhe.
12:06Thanks to Odette, Vera has a major breakthrough in intelligence.
12:11It's important for Vera, not only professionally, but also personally.
12:18In a way, although Vera never had children herself, she does kind of have maternal
12:25qualities here in her investigation.
12:34Vera has the prison in Karlsruhe in southern Germany as the last location for at least seven women.
12:45Vera also knows about the Ravensbruck women's concentration camp situated in north-eastern Germany.
12:54Ravensbruck was a concentration camp just north of Berlin and unlike every other concentration camp,
13:00it was for women. It was particularly horrifying for the sensibilities of people in the 1940s as well,
13:07where women are meant to be kept out of combat, out of war and treated with some level of humanity.
13:12Ravensbruck was a particular horrific site to end up in.
13:20It's from here that three agents, including Yvonne Bazden and Odette Sansom, have come back alive.
13:33Ravensbruck is also the last known location for young mother and widow, Violette Szabo.
13:47But there is one of Vera's agents that has not been spotted at either a prison or a camp,
13:55Nor Inayat Khan.
14:01There's a generally held sense that Nor, amongst the others, might be alive.
14:10And so she realizes, too, that there's a tremendous amount of pressure on her,
14:14that if she's going to find her missing agents, she's going to have to do it fast.
14:20Vera can't travel to Germany and continue her investigations due to her low rank.
14:26So she enlists the help of an army unit who are hunting Nazis across post-war Germany.
14:34A unit that was founded just a few years before.
14:39The S.A.S.
14:54The S.A.S., or Special Air Service, are an elite commando unit founded during the height of the war.
15:03The S.A.S. were formed in the North African desert,
15:06and the concept behind their kind of operations were these fast hit-and-run missions,
15:10and they were deploying in these Willis jeeps, which were very maneuverable and nimble,
15:14and they were heavily armed with mounted machine guns.
15:17And the idea was to carry out these hit-and-run raids, largely targeting Italian and German airfields.
15:25And they were extremely successful in the North Africa campaign.
15:29So in those 18 months or so that they soldiered there,
15:32the S.A.S. had destroyed 387 proven enemy warplane kills.
15:37That's a spectacular achievement.
15:41But in the winter of 1942, Hitler fights back.
15:47His Nazi high command issues the so-called commando order.
15:53What the commando order said was that any parachutist, so any allied parachutist,
15:59that could be S.A.S., it could be commandos, it could be special operations executive agents,
16:03any of those captured behind the lines, whether in uniform or out of uniform,
16:08whether fighting or not fighting, whether trying to surrender or not,
16:12would be kept alive only for as long as it took the Gestapo and the S.S. to interrogate them
16:17and find out what they knew, and then they would be shot out of hand.
16:24In other words, murdered.
16:28And what that meant for the S.A.S. is if you were captured, it was a death sentence.
16:35Despite the order, the S.A.S. continue their raids,
16:39and are a key part of the Allied success in northern France that sees the Nazis defeated.
16:49With the end of the war, S.A.S. Major Bill Barkworth and a team are sent to Germany
16:55to hunt down the Nazis who carried out the commando order and bring them to justice.
17:04Major Eric Bill Barkworth is an extraordinary figure in World War II,
17:08and especially within Special Forces history.
17:11He's eccentric. He's single-minded. He's a maverick. He's a rule-breaker.
17:16He's one of those very, very archetypal individuals who can think the absolute unthinkable.
17:22But the other thing about Barkworth as well,
17:23which is key to how he develops as a character during the war,
17:27is he's got this unshakable moral compass.
17:30His sense of right and wrong is absolutely inflexible.
17:37He's a man.
17:38Barkworth has commandeered a private villa, the Villa Degler,
17:43in Garganau, near Karlsruhe, on the edge of the Black Forest.
17:51And he is here on a special mission for the S.A.S.
17:59on the 12th of August 1944 an SAS team was dropped behind enemy lines in the
18:06Vosges mountains of Eastern France to hit the Nazis before an Allied advance but
18:15the team were tracked down and 31 soldiers were captured
18:26after months of interrogation the soldiers were taken to the woods stripped
18:33and shot such a loss of life would have a profound effect on everyone in the SAS
18:44when you are serving in a unit like the SAS in World War two you forge these bonds of
18:51brotherhood with your fellow operators which are extremely extremely powerful and close you read
18:57the accounts from people at the time or you interview veterans as I have and you speak
19:01about those kind of relationships they are very very very special it's the kind of spirit that
19:07means you will lay down your life for your fellow brother in arms and that's what so often happens
19:20Barkworth is determined to find those responsible for the deaths of the 31 SAS soldiers
19:30chief among them is Hans Kiefer the head of the SD
19:40the Nazi intelligence agency in Paris a man Vera also believes may know what happened to her lost
19:50women's spies so Vera shares the photos of her agents with Barkworth in the hopes he can help her
20:01both Barkworth and Vera their investigations led them to one name and that was Hans Kiefer he was in charge
20:10of the SD he was responsible for all of the investigations that the Gestapo and the SD were doing in
20:16Paris so he was responsible for the interrogation of what the agents and what the soldiers of the SAS went
20:23through
20:26he was a spider at the web issuing all these orders for interrogating and this is the man that they
20:32were desperate to find but as the atrocities of Kiefer and other Nazis come to light people back in the
20:41UK begin to ask some difficult questions
20:52Vera
20:53Vera receives a letter alerting her to the actions of Violet Sabo's father Charles Bushell
21:02Violet has a child called Tanya and Bushell wants to know when the baby's mother will return
21:09her husband
21:34Bushell is talking to his MP
21:35and giving interviews to the newspapers about his missing daughter
21:43For Vera and the SOE this could be a major problem
21:49Vera is in a very difficult situation because suddenly the war's over and these young women who've gone off to
21:57serve somewhere and their families don't know anything about what they really did in the SOE aren't coming home
22:06to Violet Sabo's father who's been left with her infant daughter is starting to ask questions is starting to push
22:13for answers
22:13what's happened to my daughter why hasn't she come home and there are others starting to step forward and say
22:18listen you know we've heard nothing we don't know where they were serving we don't know what part of the
22:23world they've ended up in we don't know why they're not home
22:25And so there starts to become this pressure from family members and friends and other acquaintances of these young women
22:31who've just suddenly vanished
22:34And Vera has another problem
22:38She has a new boss
22:43Head of SOE F section Maurice Buckmaster has returned to his civilian role of public relations manager at the Ford
22:52Motor Company
22:54He is replaced by new broom
22:56Vera
22:59Captain Norman Mott
23:01Please have a seat
23:03A man who comes from the SOE security section
23:08And whose main interest is in keeping things secret
23:13Mott doesn't help Vera very much
23:16He doesn't see this as the sort of passionate necessity that Vera sees it as
23:20And she's now started to get information about the camps
23:27And she's pushing to see if she can get a chance to have some sort of contact or interrogate the
23:34heads of these camps where her agents might have ended up
23:39And yet she's given the cold shoulder
23:41She's really effectively told that this isn't of interest to the government
23:46This is not of interest to her former colleagues
23:48And would she please just leave it alone
23:56So it's really tense for Vera
23:58She doesn't know how much power she will have to carry on this investigation
24:02She needs to find out if there are agents surviving in these camps
24:05She has to find them before they are dead or gone
24:08Or any evidence of them is wiped out
24:11So the timing is crucial
24:13And she is basically racing against the clock
24:17Vera has to fight to convince Mott and the war office
24:21To allow her to go to Germany
24:23And speed up the hunt for her missing spies
24:30Letters from agents' relatives asking difficult questions
24:33Puts pressure on the home office
24:38And after months of lobbying
24:40Vera gets her answer
24:44Vera will be given the rank of flight officer
24:48In the women's auxiliary air force
24:50Allowing her to travel to Germany
24:56But she is told that she has just four days to demonstrate she can get results
25:15December 1945
25:19Vera's destination is Berlin
25:23A capital city in ruins
25:28A city conquered by the Soviet Union
25:34In among the destruction of Germany
25:36Vera has just a few days
25:38To prove her worth to the war office
25:46Vera's first mission is to identify the grave
25:49Of F-Section's male agent
25:51Clément Marc Jumeau
25:53Who is believed to have died of tuberculosis
25:56At a hospital north of Berlin
25:59Many women were sent to Germany post-war
26:01But mostly in secretarial roles
26:03Or in a way to assist with the men of the armed forces
26:07Who were trying to reconcile Germany
26:10But Vera was there in a totally different capacity
26:12She had a mission that she wanted to fulfil
26:20And although she was probably very nervous
26:22And had a sense of trepidation
26:24She really had to mask that
26:26And to go forward with an air of confidence
26:28And to prove that she was the right person
26:31To uncover the stories of the missing agents
26:34But Vera has a problem
26:36Jumeau's grave is most likely in Soviet-controlled Germany
26:41North of Berlin
26:43After the fall of Germany
26:45The country is split into zones
26:47Under control of the US, the UK, France
26:50And the Soviet Union
26:56At a checkpoint in Buch
26:58Vera is stopped by a Soviet sentry
27:01And her progress is halted
27:17Vera is blocked from entering the Soviet zone
27:26If Vera fails here
27:28She knows there is no chance
27:30That Mott and the war office
27:31Will allow her to continue her investigations
27:37But then Vera addresses the sentry in Russian
27:43Something the sentry would not have been expecting
27:48They come to a Russian checkpoint
27:50And she speaks in Russian
27:51And it must have been a real shock
27:53Because for him she was a member of the WAF
27:56You know, she was a lady in a blue uniform
27:59And suddenly she's speaking Russian
28:01Which would have been something
28:02He would have been completely unprepared for
28:05Vera, somehow, not only speaks Russian
28:11But she does so with a level of fluency
28:13That the sentry lets them through
28:18Vera is able to continue her journey
28:20Into the Soviet zone
28:21Thanks to her unexpected ability
28:24To speak Russian
28:25Thanks to her unexpected ability
28:36At the hospital
28:37Vera questions the staff
28:44And they direct her to the location of Jumot's grave
28:47And they direct her to the location of Jumot's grave
28:51Within the first day of her time in Germany
28:54Vera proves to the war office
28:56And to Mott
28:57That her investigations get results
29:01Now she can move on to the main reason for her journey
29:06Ravensbruck
29:16Ravensbruck
29:20The women's camp
29:2590 kilometres north of Berlin
29:32Ravensbruck
29:33Ravensbruck is a hideous camp
29:35Which was set up specifically to hold women
29:38And tens of thousands of women died there
29:41I think over 50,000 women were imprisoned there
29:48Ravensbruck is of particular interest to Vera
29:51Because she interviewed Odette
29:53Who'd come out of Ravensbruck
29:55Who had told her about her agents who were there
29:58So Ravensbruck seems to be the place
30:00The concentration camp
30:02Where a lot of her agents disappeared
30:06Vera is here to interrogate the commandant
30:08Fritz Soeren
30:11Ravensbruck camp
30:12Is the camp which Odette left alive
30:15It is also the last known location
30:17Of Vera's missing agent
30:19Violet Sabo
30:21Along with two others
30:22Lillian Rolfe
30:23And Denise Bloch
30:27Soeren holds the key
30:28To not just one
30:29But possibly the lives of three
30:31Of her agents
30:34The pressure
30:35Is on
30:39Vera's not particularly experienced yet
30:41At interrogations
30:43And she knows
30:44He has information
30:47He knows everything that went on in the camp
30:49And if there were special prisoners
30:52Considered to be agents
30:53He would have known
30:59How many English women were at the camp?
31:06There were no English women at the camp
31:11Odette is English
31:14She was a special prisoner
31:16For whom I had special responsibilities
31:20Because we thought she was related to Churchill
31:25So the other English women
31:27So the other English women
31:28How many were there?
31:32I already told you
31:34There were no others
31:37I have testimony that there were
31:48Answer me!
31:52I have nothing else to say
32:00Surin offers Vera
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 that F section
32:43Is to be closed down
32:45Permanently
32:48Norman Morton tells Vera
32:50That she is to wind down
32:52She is to close the office
32:53And really nobody is very interested
32:55In what is happening to these agents of hers
33:02There is no sense that there should be
33:05Accounts from surviving agents
33:07Which is what we see from other military
33:09Intelligence departments
33:11So there is no accountability
33:13There is 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 hush everything up
33:24And close it down as quickly as possible
33:28If F section is shut down
33:30It would see Vera without the mandate
33:33To find her lost women spies
33:36They would remain missing
33:38Presumed dead
33:41But for Vera this wasn't acceptable
33:44It 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 what had happened
33:50Particularly to the young women agents
33:53That she had personally sent to France
34:04What Vera needs
34:06Is new evidence
34:07That will shock her bosses
34:08Into letting her continue
34:21Vera receives word from SAS Major Barkworth
34:25About evidence from a secret concentration camp
34:30A camp that has been liberated
34:32And filmed by US forces
34:37Known as Natzweiler Strutov
34:40Known as Natzweiler 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 the Nazis build
34:55In France
34:57A camp built to destroy
34:59The French resistance
35:05On the 7th of December 1941
35:07On the 7th of December 1941
35:08Hitler passes an order
35:10Codenamed Night and Fog
35:14This secret order
35:15Means anyone believed
35:17To be endangering German security
35:19Can be abducted at night
35:21And without trial
35:22Taken to Natzweiler
35:26People would be
35:27According to the Nazi order
35:29Turned into mist
35:33It is a way of punishing people
35:35That was more feared than any other
35:37It is a way of punishing people
35:41But it is what Barkworth includes next
35:44In his report
35:44That has the most shocking impact
35:47On Vera's hunt
35:48For her lost women spies
36:01Vera reads Barkworth's interrogation report
36:04Of a former prisoner
36:06At Natzweiler
36:07Franz Berg
36:28Bergh tells Barkworth
36:29He worked in the crematorium
36:31As a stoker
36:34Bergh tells Barkworth
36:35One day
36:35In July 1944
36:37Bergh and the other stokers
36:39Are told to expect
36:40Some English women
36:45From his crematorium cell
36:47He witnesses their arrival
36:56To be killed
36:56Franz gives a detailed deposition
36:59He describes these English women
37:01Who come
37:02And on the night
37:03He says that the head of the crematorium
37:06Has told him to light the fires
37:08And take it to the hottest point
37:10By 9.30pm
37:12They are hearing that these girls
37:14Are going to be killed
37:15By lethal injection
37:20They see three women being dragged
37:23These are the English women
37:24Two are unconscious
37:25One of them seems to be moving
37:27There's groans and grunts
37:28And one even speaks
37:29And says,
37:30They are then dragged into the crematorium
37:34They can't see anymore
37:35And they say later
37:36That one of the women was alive
37:38And had scratched one of the men
37:40Who had come
37:41Then they heard the crematorium doors being shut
37:44And they knew it was all being fired up
37:49After that there's silence
37:54It's horror
37:56At what these girls would have gone through
37:58There is no way
37:59When they prepared them for their training
38:01For the torture that might lie ahead
38:03They would have envisaged something like this
38:10After being shown Vera's photographs of her missing spies
38:14Berg says that he believes
38:16One of the women brought to the crematorium
38:19Is Noor Inayat Khan
38:24Vera would have been absolutely horrified
38:27And the thought that this could have been Noor as well
38:29I mean horrified for all the girls
38:35And the fact that maybe this is what happened to Noor
38:38Is something that really haunted her
38:52Armed with Berg's testimony from Natsweiler
38:56Vera heads to her superiors
38:59She will not give up on her women
39:11Berg's testimony makes disturbing reading for the British security services
39:23Whitehall would be deeply troubled by the evidence that Vera is actually gaining of the sheer horror of the concentration
39:30camps
39:31Because let's not forget that the public don't know that women were sent behind enemy lines
39:39Whitehall would not want this highly secret organisation, the SOE, knowledge of it to come out
39:45But even more sensitive and potentially a public outcry
39:50To hear that women had been dropped into these dangerous areas
39:54And that some of them hadn't come back and had been horrifically tortured
40:00After seeing Berg's testimony
40:02MI6 agreed to fund Vera for another three months of investigations
40:07In the hope that Vera can keep the story of the lost women spies out of the public eye
40:16Vera heads back to Germany
40:19Vera heads back to Germany
40:41Vera is assigned to the war crimes unit at the British army headquarters in Germany
40:48the war crimes unit was based at bad or in housing which was the headquarters of the british army on
40:54the rhine so it was a very important place and the war crimes unit was really trying to find
41:00high-ranking nazis people who would have been involved in what we would call war crimes so
41:05with executions with maltreatment of prisoners with the concentration camp system in general
41:11and the idea would not only be to find these officers but also to find evidence about crimes
41:18against humanity that they had committed so various murders or procedures that they had followed
41:25that were against the geneva convention vera will support the british judges in their evidence
41:39gathering vera's main role within the war crimes unit was to trace the missing soe agents and her
41:45job would be to trace them as best she could this was going to be exceptionally difficult for her
41:50as the prisoners were classified as nacht and naval night and fog so most records would technically
41:56have disappeared if they'd ever been kept in the first place but her job was to trace them through
42:02the various prison systems that they'd been through had they gone into camps and not only to trace them
42:07but to trace the people responsible for their imprisonment and murders if that was going to be the case
42:16vera begins by tracing back her agent's whereabouts before they get to the camp at natsweiler
42:24and her attention turns to a witness who could hold the key
42:29it's a name given to vera by odette sansam it is the chief warder of karlsruher prison frulein becker
42:43vera leaves the war crimes office headed for karlsruher prison in the hope that finding becker might give
42:51her the information she needs
42:56frulein becker would have been really important for vera to get her hands on she'd been identified in
43:01one of the affidavits of the surviving agents anyway and vera needed to go out and find her
43:07because as the chief wardress she would have received all new prisoners coming into karlsruher
43:12she would have met them personally taken away their personal effects made a record of what they were but
43:18she would have also recorded their names so be they real names or their aliases she would have
43:24recorded the names of the soe women going into that prison
43:34on arrival at the prison vera discovers that frulein becker hasn't even left her post
43:42as chief warder vera can now begin her questioning
43:52karlsruher was technically a civilian prison so it wasn't really used for political prisoners which
43:58arguably the soe agents were when they arrived at karlsruher they were put into solitary confinement
44:09food would have been pretty grim and very scarce they would have only had the clothes they were
44:14standing up in and we know that the cells were quite sparse a single bed maybe a bucket for a
44:20toilet
44:20so it was a very grim place
44:26i didn't want them here this is a regular prison not for politicals like them
44:31they should never have been here
44:45them
45:08yes
45:12all of them
45:16and they all left in july 1944
45:21no
45:23the one you mentioned adet she left then the others it was later in the year
45:31so these seven in the photographs they didn't leave in july that's what i said they left later
45:41i need to see your records now please we don't have any i can't imagine that
45:50the french when they came they destroyed everything smashed it all up
45:58all gone
46:08thank you
46:09thank you frulein becker i'm sure i'll see you again soon
46:17vera doesn't have the written records she needs as evidence but she does have something more important
46:25becker's testimony directly contradicts the evidence of the crematorium stoker at natsweiler
46:31franz berg
46:34berg stated that four women are killed at the natsweiler camp in july 1944
46:40but becker claims that including noor seven of vera's lost women spies are still in karlsruir prison
46:49later later than july 1944 so those women could not have been the ones killed at natsweiler
46:57vera already has an eyewitness testimony from natsweiler saying that nor is dead and now she has another
47:04eyewitness testimony saying no that is not true she is here she needs some sort of corroborating evidence
47:10to prove where nor is one way or the other vera leaves becker and karlsruir with the chance that some
47:20of her lost women spies could still be alive
47:25so
47:53so
47:57so
48:08you
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