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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.
02:01The S.A.S.
02:02The S.A.S.
02:19The S.A.S.
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.
02:54But 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.
03:21The man who has come for Odette is Fritz Surin.
03:37Fritz Surin was the commandant of Ravensbrück concentration camp.
03:41It 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 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.
04:21Surin 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.
04:40Because at this point he knows he is going to get captured by one army or the other and he's
04:47going 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.
04:56Surin 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.
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, the 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.
06:25This key information that he's been after for ages, it 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.
08:44About the circuits.
08:44Who was involved.
08:45Where, when.
08:51And then they took me over the border.
08:53Into Germany.
08:56Karlsruhe.
08:58With other women.
09:02Karlsruhe.
09:05And finally, Ravensbrück.
09:09And finally, Ravensbrück.
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.
10:09Nora Nirkhan was one of Vera's favorite agents.
10:12One of the people she seems to really have cared about.
10:14When she was in training, there was some question mark as to whether or not Nora was good enough for
10:19the job.
10:20Because 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.
10:26And sort of said, no, 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.
10:40A very sort of deeply felt question as to what had happened to this delightful young woman.
10:45Who she really had been responsible for sending to France.
10:53It's pretty.
10:55But 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 Karlsruher must
11:27have 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.
11:49Suddenly in this horrible world, having experienced some brutal things already and just starting to unravel their stories.
11:58And wondering what became of them after they left this prison at Karlsruher.
12:02What became of them after they left this prison at Karlsruher?
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,
12:21she does kind of have maternal qualities here in her investigation.
12:35Vera has the prison in Karlsruher in southern Germany as the last location for at least seven women.
12:45Vera also knows about the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp,
12:50situated in north-eastern Germany.
12:54Ravensbrück was a concentration camp just north of Berlin,
12:58and unlike every other concentration camp, it was for women.
13:01It 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.
13:12Ravensbrück was a particular horrific site to end up in.
13:20It's from here that three agents, including Yvonne Basden and Odette Sansom,
13:27have come back alive.
13:33Ravensbrück is also the last known location for young mother and widow, Violette Sabo.
13:47But there is one of Vera's agents that has not been spotted at either a prison or a camp.
13:54Nor Inayat Khan.
14:02There's a generally held sense that Knorr, amongst the others, might be alive.
14:10And so she realises 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.
14:19Vera can't travel to Germany and continue her investigations due to her low rank.
14:27So 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.
14:38The 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 manoeuvrable 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,
15:20largely 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,
15:33the 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,
15:57so any allied parachutists, that could be S.A.S., it could be commandos,
16:01it could be Special Operations Executive Agents,
16:03any of those captured behind the lines,
16:06whether in uniform or out of uniform,
16:08whether fighting or not fighting,
16:10whether trying to surrender or not,
16:12would be kept alive only for as long as it took the Gestapo and the S.S.
16:16to interrogate them and find out what they knew,
16:19and then they would be shot out of hand.
16:24In other words, murdered.
16:29And what that meant for the S.A.S. is if you were captured,
16:32it 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
16:43that sees the Nazis defeated.
16:49With the end of the war,
16:51S.A.S. Major Bill Barkworth and a team
16:54are sent to Germany to hunt down the Nazis
16:57who carried out the commando order
16:59and bring them to justice.
17:04Major Eric Bill Barkworth is an extraordinary figure in World War II
17:08and especially within Special Forces history.
17:10He'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
17:19who 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.
17:37Barkworth has commandeered a private villa,
17:41the Villa Degler,
17:43in Garganau, near Karlsruhe,
17:46on 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,
18:02an S.A.S. team was dropped behind enemy lines
18:05in the Vosges mountains of eastern France
18:08to hit the Nazis before an Allied advance.
18:14But the team were tracked down
18:18and 31 soldiers were captured.
18:26After months of interrogation,
18:30the soldiers were taken to the woods,
18:33stripped and shot.
18:38Such a loss of life
18:39would have a profound effect
18:41on everyone in the S.A.S.
18:44When you are serving in a unit like the S.A.S. in World War II,
18:49you forge these bonds of brotherhood
18:51with your fellow operators,
18:52which are extremely, extremely powerful
18:55and close.
18:56If you read the accounts from people at the time
18:58or you interview veterans, as I have,
19:00and you speak about those kind of relationships,
19:02they are very, very, very special.
19:05It's the kind of spirit that means
19:07you will lay down your life
19:09for your fellow brother-in-arms,
19:11and that's what so often happens.
19:20Barkworth is determined to find those responsible
19:23for the deaths of the 31 S.A.S. soldiers.
19:30Chief among them is Hans Kieffer,
19:35the head of the S.D.,
19:40the Nazi intelligence agency in Paris.
19:45A man Vera also believes may know
19:48what happened to her lost women spies.
19:54So Vera shares the photos of her agents with Barkworth
19:57in the hopes he can help her.
20:01Both Barkworth and Vera,
20:03their investigations led them to one name,
20:06and that was Hans Kieffer.
20:09He was in charge of the S.D.
20:11He was responsible for all of the investigations
20:14that the Gestapo and the S.D. were doing in Paris.
20:16So he was responsible for the interrogation
20:20of what the agents and what the soldiers of the S.A.S. went through.
20:26He was a spider at the centre of the web,
20:29issuing all these orders for interrogating,
20:30and this is the man that they were desperate to find.
20:35But as the atrocities of Kieffer
20:37and other Nazis come to light,
20:40people back in the U.K.
20:42begin to ask some difficult questions.
20:52Vera receives a letter
20:54alerting her to the actions of Violet Sabeau's father,
20:58Charles Bushell.
21:02Violet has a child called Tanya,
21:05and Bushell wants to know when the baby's mother will return.
21:33Bushell is talking to his MP
21:36and giving interviews to the newspapers
21:38about his missing daughter.
21:43For Vera and the S.O.E.,
21:46this could be a major problem.
21:49Vera is in a very difficult situation
21:51because suddenly the war's over,
21:54and these young women
21:56who've gone off to serve somewhere,
21:58and their families don't know anything
21:59about what they really did in the S.O.E.,
22:01aren't coming home.
22:07Violet Sabeau's father,
22:08who's been left with her infant daughter,
22:11is starting to ask questions,
22:12is starting to push for answers.
22:14What's happened to my daughter?
22:15Why hasn't she come home?
22:16And there are others starting to step forward
22:18and say, listen, we've heard nothing.
22:20We don't know where they were serving.
22:21We don't know what part of the world
22:23they've ended up in.
22:23We don't know why they're not home.
22:25And so there starts to become this pressure
22:27from family members and friends
22:29and other acquaintances of these young women
22:31who've just suddenly vanished.
22:35And Vera has another problem.
22:42head of S.O.E. F. Section Morris Buckmaster
22:47has returned to his civilian role
22:49of public relations manager
22:51at the Ford Motor 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 S.O.E. security section
23:08and whose main interest
23:10is in keeping things secret.
23:13Mott doesn't help Vera very much.
23:16He doesn't see this
23:17as the sort of passionate necessity
23:19that Vera sees it as.
23:21And she's now started to get information
23:23about the camps.
23:27And she's pushing to see
23:29if she can get a chance
23:30to have some sort of contact
23:32or interrogate the heads of these camps
23:35where her agents might have ended up.
23:39And yet she's given the cold shoulder.
23:41She's really effectively told
23:43that 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
24:00to carry on this investigation.
24:02She needs to find out
24:03if 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
24:20and 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
24:31asking difficult questions
24:33puts pressure on the home office.
24:38And after months of lobbying,
24:41Vera gets her answer.
24:45Vera 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
25:00to 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
25:47is to identify the grave
25:49of F-Section's male agent,
25:52Clément 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,
26:02but 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.
26:13She 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.
26:35But Vera has a problem.
26:37Jumeau's grave is most likely
26:39in 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,
26:50France and the Soviet Union.
26:56At a checkpoint in Buch,
26:59Vera is stopped by a Soviet sentry
27:01and her progress is halted.
27:18Vera is blocked from entering the Soviet zone.
27:26If Vera fails here,
27:28she knows there is no chance that Mott
27:30and the war office
27:31would allow her to continue her investigations.
27:36But then Vera addresses the sentry
27:39in 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,
27:54she 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,
28:10but 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.
28:36At the hospital,
28:37Vera questions the staff
28:39and they direct her to the location
28:46of 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
29:04for her journey,
29:06Ravensbruck.
29:16Ravensbruck.
29:20The women's camp.
29:25Ravensbruck.
29:2690 kilometres north of Berlin.
29:32Ravensbruck is a hideous camp
29:35which was set up specifically to hold women
29:38and tens of thousands of women died there.
29:42I 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,
30:01the concentration camp
30:02where a lot of her agents disappeared.
30:05Vera is here to interrogate the commandant,
30:08Fritz Soeren.
30:10Ravensbruck camp
30:11is 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,
30:23Lillian Rolfe
30:23and Denise Bloch.
30:26Soeren holds the key to not just one,
30:29but possibly the lives of three of her agents.
30:39Vera's not particularly experienced yet at interrogations
30:43and she knows he has information.
30:47He knows everything that went on in the camp
30:49and if there were special prisoners considered 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
31:17for whom I had special responsibilities
31:20because we thought she was related to Churchill.
31:25So the other English women,
31:28how many were there?
31:32I already told you
31:34there were no others.
31:38I have testimony that there were.
31:48Answer me!
31:52I have nothing else to say.
31:55I have nothing else to say.
32:00Surin offers Vera nothing.
32:12Without any new evidence,
32:15Vera leaves Ravensbruck
32:16and returns to London empty-handed.
32:29Back in London,
32:31Vera 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 is to be closed down permanently.
32:48Norman Morton tells Vera that she's to wind down,
32:52she's to close the office
32:53and really nobody's very interested
32:55in what's happening to these agents of hers.
33:02There is no sense
33:03that there should be accounts from surviving agents,
33:07which is what we see
33:08from other military intelligence 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 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, presumed dead.
33:41But for Vera, this 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 what had happened,
33:51particularly to the young women agents
33:53that she had personally sent to France.
34:03What Vera needs is 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 Struthof,
34:40the camp is hidden in the Vosges mountains
34:42of eastern France, close to the German border.
34:52It is the only camp the Nazis build in France,
34:57a camp built to destroy the French resistance.
35:05On the 7th of December 1941,
35:07Hitler passes an order codenamed Night and Fog.
35:14This secret order means anyone believed
35:17to be endangering German security
35:19can be abducted at night
35:21and without trial taken to Natzweiler.
35:26People would be, according to the Nazi order,
35:29turned into mist.
35:33It's a way of punishing people
35:35that was more feared than any other.
35:41But it's what Barkworth includes next in his report
35:44that has the most shocking impact
35:47on Vera's hunt for her lost women spies.
36:01Vera reads Barkworth's interrogation report
36:04of a former prisoner at Natzweiler,
36:08Franz Berg.
36:27Berg tells Barkworth he worked in the crematorium
36:31as a stoker.
36:34One day in July 1944,
36:37Berg and the other stokers
36:39are told to expect some English women.
36:45From his crematorium cell,
36:48he witnesses their arrival.
36:55Franz gives a detailed deposition.
36:59He describes these English women who come
37:02and on the night he says
37:04that the head of the crematorium
37:06has told him to light the fires
37:08and take it to the hottest point
37:10by 9.30 p.m.
37:13They 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 and says,
37:30it's Purkhwar.
37:32They are then dragged into the crematorium.
37:34They can't see anymore.
37:36And they say later
37:36that one of the women was alive
37:38and had scratched one of the men
37:40who had come.
37:42Then they heard the crematorium doors
37:43being shut
37:44and they knew it was all being fired up.
37:49After that, there's silence.
37:54It's horror at what these girls
37:57would 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
38:12of 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.
38:30I 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
39:14for the British security services.
39:23Whitehall would be deeply troubled
39:25by the evidence that Vera's actually gained
39:28the meaning of the sheer horror
39:29of the concentration camps
39:31because let's not forget
39:32that the public don't know
39:34that women were sent behind enemy lines.
39:39Whitehall would not want
39:40this highly secret organisation, the SOE,
39:43knowledge of it to come out,
39:45but even more sensitive
39:47and potentially a public outcry
39:50to hear that women have been dropped
39:52into these dangerous areas
39:54and that some of them hadn't come back
39:56and had been horrifically tortured.
40:00After seeing Berg's testimony,
40:02MI6 agreed to fund Vera
40:04for another three months of investigations
40:07in the hope that Vera can keep the story
40:10of the lost women spies out of the public eye.
40:16Vera heads back to Germany.
40:41Vera is assigned to the war crimes unit
40:44at the British Army headquarters in Germany.
40:48The war crimes unit was based at Bad Orenhausen,
40:51which was the headquarters
40:52of the British Army on the Rhine.
40:55So it was a very important place.
40:57And the war crimes unit was really trying to find
41:00high ranking Nazis,
41:01people who would have been involved
41:03in what we would call war crimes.
41:05So with executions,
41:07with maltreatment of prisoners,
41:09with the concentration camp system in general.
41:11And the idea would not only be to find these officers,
41:15but also to find evidence about crimes against humanity
41:19that they had committed.
41:20So various murders or procedures that they had followed
41:25that were against the Geneva Convention.
41:30Vera will support the British judges
41:32in their evidence gathering.
41:40Vera's main role within the war crimes unit
41:42was to trace the missing SOE agents.
41:44And her job would be to trace them as best she could.
41:48This was going to be exceptionally difficult for her
41:50as the prisoners were classified
41:52as Nacht und Nabel, Night and Fog.
41:54So most records would technically have disappeared
41:57if they'd ever been kept in the first place.
41:59But her job was to trace them through the various prison systems
42:03that they'd been through, had they gone into camps.
42:06And not only to trace them,
42:07but to trace the people responsible for their imprisonment
42:10and murders if that was going to be the case.
42:16Vera begins by tracing back her agent's whereabouts
42:20before 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 Sansom.
42:33It is the chief warder of Karlsruhe prison,
42:37Fräulein Becker.
42:43Vera leaves the war crimes office,
42:46headed for Karlsruhe prison
42:48in the hope that finding Becker
42:50might give her the information she needs.
42:56Fräulein Becker would have been really important
42:58for Vera to get her hands on.
43:00She'd been identified in one of the affidavits
43:02of the surviving agents anyway,
43:04and Vera needed to go out and find her.
43:07Because as the chief wardress,
43:09she would have received all new prisoners
43:10coming into Karlsruhe.
43:12She would have met them personally,
43:14taken away their personal effects,
43:16made a record of what they were.
43:18But she would have also recorded their names.
43:20So be they real names or their aliases,
43:23she would have recorded the names of the SOE women
43:25going into that prison.
43:34On arrival at the prison,
43:37Vera discovers that Fräulein Becker
43:39hasn't even left her post
43:42as chief warder.
43:45Vera can now begin her questioning.
43:52Karlsruhe was technically a civilian prison,
43:55so it wasn't really used for political prisoners,
43:58which arguably the SOE agents were.
44:00When they arrived at Karlsruhe,
44:03they were put into solitary confinement.
44:09Food would have been pretty grim and very scarce.
44:13They would have only had the clothes
44:14they were standing up in.
44:15And we know that the cells were quite sparse,
44:18a single bed, maybe a bucket for a toilet.
44:20So it was a very grim place.
44:26I didn't want them here.
44:28This is a regular prison, not for politicals like them.
44:31They should never have been here.
44:44them?
44:46them?
44:48them?
44:49them?
44:56them?
44:57them?
45:08Yes.
45:12All of them.
45:16And they all left in July 1944?
45:21No.
45:23The one you mentioned, Adette.
45:26She left then.
45:27The others, it was later in the year.
45:31So these seven in the photographs,
45:34they didn't leave in July?
45:36That's what I said.
45:38They left later.
45:41I need to see your records.
45:43Now, please.
45:44We don't have any.
45:47I can't imagine that.
45:50The French.
45:52When they came, they destroyed everything.
45:54Smashed it all up.
45:58all gone.
46:08Thank you,
46:09Fraulein Becker.
46:11I'm sure I'll see you again soon.
46:17Vera doesn't have the written records she needs as evidence.
46:21But she does have something more important.
46:25Becker's testimony directly contradicts the evidence of the crematorium stoker at Natsweiler,
46:32France Berg.
46:34Berg stated that four women are killed at the Natsweiler camp in July 1944.
46:41But Becker claims that, including Noor, seven of Vera's lost women spies are still in Karlsruhe prison later than July
46:501944.
46:51So those women could not have been the ones killed at Natsweiler.
46:57Vera already has an eyewitness testimony from Natsweiler saying that Noor is dead.
47:03And now she has another eyewitness testimony saying, no, that is not true.
47:06She is here.
47:07She needs some sort of corroborating evidence to prove where Noor is, one way or the other.
47:15Vera leaves Becker and Karlsruhe with the chance that some of her lost women spies could still be alive.
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