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00:08World War II is over.
00:14The Allies have occupied Germany.
00:19But British women agents remain lost across Europe.
00:24Fire!
00:30Spymaster Vera Atkins now has a permanent position with the British Air Force
00:35to find her lost women spies.
00:39And she enlists the help of a crack team of SAS Nazi hunters,
00:44led by Major Bill Barkworth.
00:50Barkworth reports about a hidden concentration camp in eastern France,
00:55designed to make secret agents disappear without a trace.
01:02And the possibility that some of Vera's lost women spies may have died there.
01:11As Vera gathers evidence for the trials of leading Nazis,
01:15the horrors she is uncovering are too much for the authorities back in London.
01:22Vera receives a clear order.
01:24I need you to keep this disgusting business out of the newspapers.
01:29The true stories of all her lost women spies must be kept covered up.
01:35At all costs.
01:46The 11th of March, 1946.
01:51Nearly nine months since the end of the war in Europe.
01:59Vera is based at the British War Crimes Office in Germany,
02:04where her promotion allows her to travel the country to hunt for her lost women spies.
02:14Two names stand out.
02:30Vera is sent by Major Barkworth an interrogation report of prison crematorium worker France Berg.
02:45Berg claims Noor was killed along with three other women spies at the Natsweiler camp in July 1944.
02:55But a warder at Karlsruhe prison, Fräulein Becker,
03:00says she remembers Noor being in Karlsruhe many months later.
03:04Vera already has an eyewitness testimony from Natsweiler saying that Noor is dead.
03:12And now she has another eyewitness testimony saying,
03:14no, that is not true.
03:18Noor could still be alive.
03:23The other name is Violette Sabo.
03:28Violette left her one-year-old child behind to take up arms,
03:33a child whose father had already given his life in the war effort.
03:39Nazis won't know what hit them.
03:41Very good.
03:44Violette Sabo's situation is particularly sad because she lost her husband,
03:50who never actually met their daughter, gave birth to a child.
03:54And she left her child back with her family in the UK and parachuted into France.
04:01So determined was she to keep fighting against the Nazis.
04:06Violette was last heard of at the women's concentration camp at Ravensbrück,
04:12a camp from where Vera's agents Odette Sansom and Yvonne Bazden have both returned.
04:21So is Violette also alive?
04:27Vera never gives up hope.
04:29There's always this little sliver of hope that some of them would be alive.
04:33They may be in a terrible condition, but they are alive.
04:36Or they would have escaped and they will show up.
04:41So she keeps this hope in her when she goes, but she is prepared for the worst.
04:46And as she is uncovering these stories, Vera is getting hardened.
04:51The torture she's hearing about, it is hardening her.
04:57We have arrested an SS lieutenants from a camp north of Berlin.
05:03Which camp?
05:05Ravensbrück.
05:15Ravensbrück is Violette Sabo's camp.
05:20Is this the stroke of luck that Vera badly needs?
05:39SS lieutenant Johann Schwarzhuber was second in command at Ravensbrück.
05:49Schwarzhuber is a very important person for Vera to be able to interview
05:54because he holds absolutely crucial information
05:57about three of the women that she is looking for
06:01that she has since found out were taken to Ravensbrück concentration camp.
06:17The
06:19a
06:42This one, she had the name Violet.
06:54And? What happened to her?
06:59All three were taken to the crematorium building of the camp, and one by one, they were shot.
07:15How do you know?
07:20I watched.
07:35Vera now has testimony that along with Violet, Lillian Rolfe and Denise Block were executed
07:43at the Ravensbrück concentration camp north of Berlin.
07:49Vera must have been absolutely shocked to hear this information. She would have clung
07:54on to any last thread of hope that the women had survived the camp. As she heard of these
07:59women who she'd been so affectionate for, who she had really travelled across Europe and
08:05in dreadful conditions, trying to find out what had happened to them. And finally, she
08:22personally writes letters for the bereaved families. Each one detailing her search for these spies,
08:29missing, presumed dead.
08:32Vera would have felt shocked and upset. But to some extent, I think she might have also
08:37felt relief. She had closure on this story. And although it wasn't the end she would have
08:43wanted or hoped for, she was finally able to tell the families of these three women what
08:49had happened to them. And they were able to finally understand what their daughters, wives,
08:54children had gone through and what they had sacrificed for their country.
09:06Each letter has to be assessed by her superiors to make sure Vera doesn't give away any incriminating evidence.
09:17Vera is in a very difficult position because the fact that there were women
09:21agents is not yet common knowledge. They want to keep it out of the public eye because it's
09:26a very difficult thing to try and explain to families and acquaintances and loved ones that
09:31actually your daughter was sent into harm's way without protection, without the protection
09:37of the Geneva Convention or the Hague Convention, without the protection of the British government
09:41effectively. They were meant to be completely deniable if they were captured or caught or
09:47indeed killed.
09:52But there remain other spies who are unaccounted for. Like Noor Inayat Khan, who, with two other
10:00agents, was last seen at the Natzweiler camp in the mountains of eastern France. In a few months, the
10:10Natzweiler war crimes trial will start and Vera has been instructed to gather as much evidence
10:16as she can. But she can't do it alone.
10:24In the spring of 1946, Vera travels to Garganau, a small town near Karlsruhe.
10:43It's here she visits Major Bill Barkworth, at a property his SAS unit have commandeered,
10:49called the Villa Daigler.
10:52Vera Atkins. Good to finally meet you.
10:56And you, sir.
10:58Yes.
11:01Barkworth has offered Vera the chance to get a witness statement from a former Natzweiler
11:07prisoner. A man who worked as a crematorium stoker, and is currently held captive in the
11:14cellars of the Villa, along with other prisoners rounded up by Barkworth's Nazi hunter unit. His name
11:21is Franz Berg. Berg's testimony is key to whether Vera can get a conviction against those who
11:30ran the camp, and may have murdered her women agents.
11:40The next women to be killed by injection, rather than gassing, were two English and two French women.
12:04They were brought to the cells in the crematorium building one afternoon in July 1944.
12:26We, me, and the other prisoners, could see through the fan light without standing up.
12:38We heard low voices. We heard noises of every breathing and low groaning. Next two women, we heard the same
12:53noises and regular groans, but the fourth, she resisted in the corridor.
13:03So, I heard her say, why?
13:45How did she do not hear her?
13:46I've heard her say, why?
13:46So, I beloved her have said, come back, why?
13:55Why did她 feel like a musician могут be absolutely burn?
13:56How far were you?
13:59Where do you know how she bare looked at?
14:02Vera now has a witness statement that she can use at the upcoming Natsweiler war crimes trial.
14:10A testimony identifying that some of Vera's agents, including Noor, were killed at the camp.
14:18But even with Berg's testimony, this is only one man's recollection.
14:24Vera needs more evidence.
14:30Vera continues her preparation for the Natsweiler war crimes trial.
14:36Thanks to Barkworth, she now has Berg's testimony and other witness statements.
14:43But Vera lacks a critical piece of evidence if she wants to convict those who ran Natsweiler.
14:51Vera needed hard evidence.
14:54If she wants to bring those perpetrators to justice, she needs to gather enough of the hard evidence that will
15:03stand up in a court of law to actually bring them to justice.
15:08Vera needs documentary evidence.
15:11Something that ties those who ran the camp with her missing agents.
15:18So Vera tries to find documents that show which of her agents were murdered at Natsweiler.
15:26Four of her agents were sent there from Karlsruhe prison.
15:31Surely, Fräulein Becker, at Karlsruhe, would have kept records.
15:39I need to see your records. Now, please.
15:42We don't have any.
15:44I can't imagine that.
15:47The French.
15:49When they came, they destroyed everything.
15:51Smashed it all up.
15:56All gone.
15:59Fräulein Becker tells Vera that all the prison documents were destroyed by the French.
16:05Now, that reeks of a lie.
16:07Vera must have known she was lying.
16:09Why would the French go to a German prison and just randomly destroy all the records?
16:16But she's nowhere for finding out unless Fräulein Becker tells her the truth.
16:20And how is she going to get her to do that?
16:25Vera chooses to visit Becker again.
16:29This time, with the S.A.S.
16:41At Karlsruhe prison, Barkworth and Vera confront Fräulein Becker.
16:48Where are they?
16:50Where are what?
16:51The records!
16:52I don't know.
16:54I know you know.
16:55Where are they?
16:55I don't know!
16:59Search of it.
17:00All of it!
17:04You said the French destroyed everything.
17:06They did.
17:06Why would they do that?
17:07I don't know!
17:09Because you lie!
17:12Mom!
17:15What do we have here, huh?
17:16I don't know.
17:21The records.
17:23You lie.
17:26Liar!
17:27Liar!
17:44The records.
17:44Vera and Barkworth go through the prison records.
17:49Every entry and exit from the prison is marked.
17:55Vera finds entries that on the 6th of July, 1944, four women agents are transferred from the prison at Karlsruhe
18:03to the concentration camp at Natsweiler.
18:10This corroborates what Berg told Vera about four agents who were killed at Natsweiler.
18:23Vera now has clear evidence that four women agents were murdered.
18:28The names are Andre Borel, Vera Lee, Diana Roden, and Sonja Olszineski.
18:42The fourth name, Sonja Olszineski, is unknown to Vera.
18:49Vera expected to see Noor's name or alias.
18:55Witnesses had identified Noor as traveling with this group to Natsweiler.
19:01Noor was born in Moscow, so a Russian-sounding alias could make sense.
19:09For Vera, Sonja Olszineski's entry, taken with other evidence, is actually for Noor in Ayat Khan.
19:19Vera has written evidence that four SOE women, including Noor in Ayat Khan,
19:26are transported from Karlsruhe to Natsweiler and most likely killed there.
19:32She can now take the evidence to trial.
19:40The 29th of May, 1946.
19:44The Natsweiler war crimes trial begins in Vorpital, in the west of Germany.
19:51The Natsweiler trial would have been so important to Vera,
19:54and it was her other chance to get information about the women,
19:58so she could provide that to the families and their close ones,
20:01but also to bring these men to justice.
20:06This was the most brutal execution, murder, in fact, of these women.
20:12It didn't need to be done in such a horrific manner, if at all.
20:17This will be a British-led trial,
20:19with Nazis tried on German soil, but under international law.
20:25A trial about one of the Nazis' specially hidden concentration camps
20:29in the mountains of France.
20:34Natsweiler isn't particularly well-known, but it was in microcosm
20:38the system of the concentration camps set up in Germany,
20:42and in this case in France.
20:43It was a camp of 22,000 deaths, around 55,000 people held,
20:48went through Natsweiler, so relatively small compared to some of the other concentration camps in the Reich,
20:54but nevertheless a system of tremendous brutality, slave labour, medical experimentation,
21:00oppression, violence, the capo system, a terrible, terrible place.
21:08But before the trial starts, Vera receives a blunt instruction from her new boss, Norman Mott.
21:18Vera, everything, and I mean everything,
21:22has been done in London to keep this disgusting business out of the newspapers.
21:28I need you to ensure that the press's interest is discouraged.
21:33And to our reputations, any good?
21:37I understand.
21:42I suggest you start by getting the names of the dead withheld from the trial.
21:51Their families won't like it, Norman.
21:55They want to know what happened.
22:00Too bad.
22:02It's a disgusting business which is best buried.
22:24The Natsweiler trial would have been a troubling time for Vera,
22:28not only because of hearing the dreadful incidences and details of what had happened,
22:34but also that SOE was still a secretive organisation.
22:36People were not aware that women had been sent into the field
22:40in violation of the Geneva Convention.
22:46And she probably worried not only if their names got out into the press
22:50what had happened to them,
22:51but there was questions to be start to raise about who had sent them,
22:55why had they sent them,
22:56why had this been allowed to happen.
23:01After four days of hearings,
23:03the verdicts are delivered to the accused.
23:15Werner Roder, the medical officer who injected the women,
23:18is given a death sentence.
23:28Peter Straub, SS officer in charge of the executions,
23:33is given 13 years in prison.
23:36Later that year, he is given a death sentence.
23:41Fritz Hagenstein, the commandant of Natsweiler,
23:44is imprisoned for life.
23:48The verdict of the Natsweiler trial was that the three men who were on trial
23:53for the murder of these SOE women were all found guilty.
23:57So, in some respects, that's a very positive outcome.
24:00She had proved that this murder was unlawful,
24:03this execution, as they called it.
24:05But then the sentences may have been a bittersweet moment.
24:09Did Vera want an eye for an eye at this point?
24:11Did she want to see these men suffer and pay the ultimate price?
24:15Or was she just happy to have received the guilty verdict?
24:18She was a very straightforward woman,
24:20and I think she would have been just pleased
24:23to have seen these men go down for what they'd done.
24:29Vera secures the agreement of the court
24:31that the names of the dead will be withheld from publication.
24:36Thanks to Vera's work,
24:38the trial fails to create Mott's much-feared newspaper sensation.
24:44Vera's role in the affair remains out of the public eye.
24:49For now.
24:57Vera turns her attention to her final three women spies
25:02from Karlsruhe, who are unaccounted for.
25:06Yolande Beekman,
25:08Eliane Plumann,
25:09and Madeleine Damermont.
25:16Vera comes across an interrogation statement
25:19taken by American investigators
25:21of Gestapo soldiers stationed in the town of Karlsruhe.
25:34One soldier, Max Vassmer,
25:37recalls transporting women prisoners
25:40from Karlsruhe to Dachau concentration camp.
25:46The ranks of three of the women
25:48match those of Vera's unaccounted agents.
25:52And Vassmer's detailed description of one woman
25:56matches Madeleine Damermont.
26:03At Dachau,
26:04Vassmer reportedly tells his colleagues
26:07that he pronounced the death sentence on the women,
26:11and that they were then killed.
26:16But can Vera be sure?
26:20Other Gestapo soldiers
26:22claim there were four women,
26:24not three,
26:25like Vassmer says.
26:26They also claim
26:28that one of the women
26:29came from a completely different prison
26:31called Pforzheim,
26:32not Karlsruhe,
26:34as Vassmer states.
26:36One of the problems that Vera has,
26:38and indeed all of the people
26:40involved in the war crimes trials have,
26:42is the veracity of the witnesses.
26:44Because when she got testimony
26:46or drawings
26:48or verification
26:50from her own side,
26:52her own agents
26:53or people who were also in the camps
26:54and said they saw three women
26:56or four women
26:57who came into the camp,
26:59she can believe them.
27:00They may not remember everything,
27:01but at least she knows
27:03that they're being honest.
27:04But when you're relying
27:05on the testimony
27:06of an SS officer
27:07or a capo
27:08who's worked in the camp,
27:10they're also self-interested.
27:11They also want
27:12to exonerate themselves.
27:13And so it's very difficult often
27:15to know
27:15if they're telling the truth.
27:17And so even though
27:18she gets the Vassmer testimony
27:20and she thinks
27:21she's got some solid information
27:23about what's happened
27:23to her final three agents,
27:25she can't really be sure,
27:27particularly when then
27:28she gets contradictory evidence.
27:29Can Vera trust Vassmer's testimony
27:33in the report?
27:36Vera has to find Vassmer
27:38and interrogate him herself.
27:44August 1946.
27:49After months of searching,
27:51Vera tracks Vassmer down
27:53to internment camp number 74
27:55in Ludwigsberg, Germany.
28:01Vera is the only one
28:03who knows all three SOE agents.
28:05She knows them intimately.
28:07And Max Vassmer says
28:09that he thinks
28:10he's identified them.
28:11Now, this is a huge big deal
28:12because Vera can actually
28:13get the man in front of her
28:15and determine
28:16whether these women
28:17were different women
28:19or were her agents.
28:20And, you know,
28:21being up there
28:22and able to speak
28:22to somebody about it
28:23where you know,
28:25you know,
28:25if you show somebody
28:25a photograph,
28:27you know whether they go,
28:27that's definitely the person
28:28or I think that's the person.
28:30And it's all to do
28:31with intonation.
28:31It's all to do
28:32with being in the same room
28:33as someone.
28:34So for Vera,
28:35being in the same room
28:35as Max Vassmer
28:36is really important
28:38so that she
28:38can interrogate him.
28:41Your name is Max Vassmer,
28:43correct?
28:46Yes.
28:49And you transported women
28:51from Karlsruhe Prison
28:52to Dachau,
28:53correct?
28:58Yes.
29:15And then you watched
29:16as they were shot,
29:18correct?
29:21No.
29:23I handed them over
29:24to the guards.
29:26This report clearly states
29:28that witnesses
29:29saw you take the women
29:30to be shot.
29:34Well, I was there,
29:35yes.
29:37I wasn't present
29:39at the end.
29:42The guards took the women in,
29:44not me.
29:46We just...
29:48We just did transport.
29:52Then how did others know
29:54that four women
29:55were killed?
29:56Three.
29:58The report says
29:59four women.
30:02It was three.
30:05How can you be so sure?
30:07Because they gave me a receipt.
30:12A what?
30:16The next day,
30:18the guards gave me a receipt
30:19for three women spies
30:21shot dead.
30:23We needed it
30:24for bookkeeping
30:25back at Karlsruhe.
30:32Shall I describe them for you?
30:38Three women.
30:40Vasma provides descriptions
30:42of three women
30:44transferred from Karlsruhe
30:46to Dachau
30:47that match Vera's records
30:48of three SOE women.
30:51Vera has sufficient proof
30:53that her SOE agents,
30:55Jolande Beekmann,
30:57Eliane Plumann
30:58and Madeleine Darmamon
31:00are killed
31:02at Dachau.
31:05Bera,
31:06after interviewing
31:07Max Vasma,
31:08now has everybody
31:09accounted for.
31:10She knows exactly
31:12where all of her agents
31:13ended up
31:14and there must have been
31:15a sort of wonderful
31:16sense of completion
31:17but also this sort of
31:18tragic pang
31:19of knowing that
31:21there's nobody
31:22left to be saved
31:23and just the horrific
31:24nature of their deaths.
31:25It must have been
31:26absolutely awful.
31:34Vera now believes
31:36she has sufficient evidence
31:38to account for every one
31:39of her lost women spies
31:41alive or dead.
31:46She writes up a report
31:48for London
31:48closing the case.
31:52Of the 39 women
31:54Vera sent to war,
31:5627 returned alive.
31:59many after
32:01sustained torture.
32:07Twelve lose their lives
32:09at the hands
32:10of the Nazis.
32:17She encloses draft letters
32:19to be sent to the
32:20women's next of kin.
32:22Details of their names
32:23to be completed
32:24in London.
32:28It is with the deepest regret
32:30that I have to inform you
32:31that your daughter
32:32was killed
32:33in the early hours
32:34of the 13th of September
32:361944
32:37in the camp of Dachau.
32:40According to what is believed
32:42to be a reliable report,
32:44she was shot
32:45through the back of the head
32:46and death was immediate.
32:49The body was cremated
32:50in the camp crematorium.
32:53Vera does succeed
32:55in discovering
32:56the fate of the 12
32:58missing women agents
32:59and in that sense
33:01there is closure for her.
33:03She has succeeded
33:05in discovering
33:06what's happened
33:06to all of them
33:07but also it means
33:09that she can write
33:10to the families
33:11and personally tell them
33:13what's happened
33:14and she carries that
33:16for the rest of her life.
33:18What you find
33:19later in life
33:20is some of the children
33:21of the agents
33:23who died in action
33:24actually seek her out.
33:25They travel
33:25from across the world
33:26because she's the one
33:28tangible physical link
33:31with those agents
33:33and so she assumes
33:34a really important role
33:36not only immediately
33:38after investigations
33:40but for the rest
33:41of her life.
33:42She's the one
33:43that carries their memory.
33:48Vera has finally uncovered
33:51the fate
33:51of her missing women
33:53and prepares
33:54to leave Germany.
34:00With this part
34:01of her mission over
34:02Vera will return
34:04to England.
34:12now she must answer
34:15the hardest question
34:18how did it all go
34:21so wrong?
34:33Vera must now uncover
34:35why so many
34:36of her agents
34:37were captured
34:38and how the Nazi
34:40intelligence service
34:41seemed to infiltrate
34:43SOE's agent networks
34:44so successfully.
34:46When Vera returns
34:48to England
34:48there's a niggling
34:50doubt in her mind
34:51that perhaps
34:52they have been betrayed
34:54she has been betrayed
34:56perhaps there was
34:57a spy
34:58within the SOE
35:00perhaps there was
35:01somebody betraying
35:02them all
35:02all along.
35:06And the most
35:07terrifying fear
35:09starts to take hold
35:09of her
35:10that somebody
35:10very close to her
35:11somebody who she
35:12has to have worked
35:13with at SOE
35:15itself
35:15might have actually
35:16betrayed her
35:17and she has to
35:18start thinking
35:18did I send
35:20these agents
35:22out to their
35:23deaths
35:23were they being
35:24parachuted to
35:25or flown to
35:26the waiting arms
35:28of treachery.
35:31The man who
35:32is key to this
35:33is the head
35:34of Nazi security
35:35in France
35:36Hans Kiefer
35:37who is hiding
35:38somewhere
35:39in Germany.
35:42Find Kiefer
35:43and you find
35:45the traitor.
35:58Vera passes
35:59a tip to her
36:00friend
36:00SAS Major
36:01Bill Barkworth
36:02that Kiefer
36:03might be hiding
36:04in his hometown
36:05of Garmisch
36:06in Bavaria.
36:12With Kiefer
36:13on the run
36:14Vera turns
36:15to another
36:15leading Nazi
36:17to try and
36:18uncover
36:18how the Germans
36:19captured her
36:20women agents.
36:24He is the man
36:25who masterminded
36:26the Nazi radio
36:27operation
36:27in northern France.
36:32Dr. Josef
36:33Goertz.
36:40Goertz
36:41worked as one
36:42of Kiefer's
36:42lead
36:43counter-intelligence
36:44officers.
36:46Dr. Goertz
36:47works in
36:48Avenue
36:49Foch
36:49in the
36:50Sicherheitsdienst
36:51headquarters
36:51in Paris
36:52and he's
36:53an underling
36:54of SS
36:55Strombanfer
36:55or Kiefer
36:56from the
36:56Sicherheitsdienst
36:57and his
36:59job is
37:00effectively
37:00to engage
37:02in
37:02counter-espionage
37:03to collect
37:04the evidence,
37:06letters,
37:06documents
37:07from enemy
37:07agents
37:08and keep
37:09them,
37:09analyze them
37:10and then give
37:11that information
37:11forward back
37:12to Kiefer
37:13and inform him
37:14about what
37:14the agents
37:15are up to.
37:17There is one
37:18thing Goertz
37:18is especially
37:19good at,
37:20which is fooling
37:21the British
37:21with fake
37:22radio transmissions.
37:28London was oblivious
37:30that agents
37:30had been captured
37:33and that Goertz
37:34was using
37:35information
37:35tortured out
37:36of them
37:36to trick
37:37SOE
37:38into revealing
37:39intelligence
37:40about the
37:41agents'
37:41circuits.
37:43It's basically
37:44a game
37:45that they were
37:46playing
37:46with the
37:47British
37:47by sending
37:48them false
37:49messages
37:49through their
37:50own wireless
37:51transmitters.
37:51So when you'd
37:52capture an agent,
37:53it'd be taken
37:54back to Avenue
37:54Foch
37:55and they'd
37:56been interrogated
37:57and their
37:57actual transmitter
37:58was kept.
37:59So that that
38:00meant that
38:00when they gave
38:01them the
38:02right codes,
38:03they could
38:03then give
38:04false messages
38:05back to London
38:06and get them
38:07to do all
38:07sorts of things
38:08that they wanted
38:09to, make them
38:09think that agents
38:10were still okay
38:10and hadn't
38:11been detained
38:12or indeed
38:13give them
38:13false messages
38:14about what
38:15was happening
38:15in the war
38:16that would
38:16get passed
38:16up the chain
38:17to Winston
38:18Churchill
38:18and affect
38:19the war.
38:22Goertz
38:22is one of
38:23thousands
38:23of suspected
38:24war criminals
38:25arrested after
38:26the war.
38:27But when
38:28it is discovered
38:29that he is
38:29the radio
38:30mastermind
38:31at Avenue
38:31Foch,
38:32he is sent
38:33to England
38:33for further
38:34interrogation.
38:38Funkspiel.
38:39That's what
38:40we called it.
38:41The radio
38:42game.
38:44And London
38:45was very
38:45bad at it.
38:48We would
38:49impersonate
38:50one of your
38:50agents,
38:52ask questions,
38:54and London
38:55would give us
38:55the answer
38:56the answer
38:57with a
38:57little slap
38:59on the wrist.
39:01Please use
39:02your security
39:02code next
39:03time.
39:11London
39:12was a joke.
39:14When the
39:15agents we
39:15captured knew
39:16how much we
39:17knew already,
39:19well,
39:20they simply
39:21gave up.
39:24what did
39:25you do
39:25once the
39:26agents
39:26were caught?
39:29We
39:31interrogated
39:32them
39:33for more
39:34personal
39:35information.
39:37More?
39:39Kiefer
39:40told your
39:41agents
39:42that we
39:43knew all
39:44their secrets
39:44already,
39:45and if they
39:46wanted to
39:47live,
39:47well,
39:50they'd have
39:51to collaborate
39:52with him.
39:55How did
39:56Kiefer
39:57know so
39:57much?
39:59Personal
39:59information
40:00was never
40:01shared by
40:01radio.
40:03No.
40:04Not by
40:05radio.
40:08The only
40:09personal
40:09information
40:10was sent
40:11by...
40:11By
40:12mail.
40:21Gertz
40:22reveals that
40:23Kiefer
40:23somehow gets
40:24access to
40:25personal
40:26letters that
40:27Vera's agents
40:28send from
40:29France back
40:30home to
40:31England.
40:37Uncoded
40:38letters full
40:39of private
40:40information.
40:43Vera
40:44discovers that
40:45Kiefer
40:46has actually
40:47had access
40:47to all
40:49of the
40:49mail from
40:50the agents,
40:50so they
40:52didn't have
40:52a chance
40:53when the
40:53agents had
40:54dropped into
40:54France.
40:55The Germans
40:55know exactly
40:56who's coming
40:57and when,
40:57and that
40:58realisation
40:59that the
41:00Germans were
41:01reading all
41:02the agents'
41:02mail must
41:04have been
41:04such a
41:05shocking
41:06revelation to
41:07Vera.
41:07And then it
41:08leads to the
41:09next question,
41:10who had
41:11betrayed
41:12them?
41:17how did
41:18Kiefer
41:18get the
41:19mail?
41:21Kiefer
41:22told me
41:23that he
41:24got it
41:24from
41:24Gilbert.
41:28Gilbert.
41:29is the
41:47codename
41:48for
41:48French
41:49agent
41:50Henri
41:51Deracore.
41:59How lovely
42:00to see you.
42:01Likewise.
42:01The man
42:02SOE had
42:03trusted with
42:03the safety
42:04of their
42:04agents
42:05appears to
42:06be a
42:07traitor.
42:09Deracore
42:10had already
42:11been recalled
42:11to London
42:12by Buckmaster
42:13and Boddington
42:14after allegations
42:15of collaborating
42:16with the
42:17Nazis.
42:19Deracore
42:20pleaded his
42:21innocence
42:21and after
42:22an investigation
42:23Don't worry,
42:24Deracore.
42:25We'll clear
42:26this whole
42:26sorry business
42:27up.
42:27Thanks,
42:28sir.
42:29He is
42:29cleared.
42:32Vera
42:33is put
42:33in a
42:34position
42:34where
42:34she
42:35either
42:35believes
42:36a
42:36Nazi
42:36or
42:37a
42:37possible
42:38double
42:38agent.
42:39Henri
42:39Deracore
42:40is in
42:40the
42:40heart
42:41of
42:41the
42:41SOE.
42:42He
42:42is
42:42one
42:43of
42:43their
42:43own.
42:44This
42:44is a
42:45man
42:45that
42:45she
42:45hands
42:46over
42:46her
42:46agents
42:47to.
42:47How
42:47could
42:47she
42:47possibly
42:48believe
42:49that
42:49he
42:49could
42:49be
42:49a
42:50double
42:50agent?
42:50He
42:50was
42:50cleared.
42:51mean,
42:51surely
42:52everybody
42:52knows
42:53him.
42:54But
42:54how
42:54did
42:55the
42:55Nazis
42:55know
42:56so
42:56much?
42:57How
42:57is
42:58it
42:58possible?
42:58And
42:59here
42:59is
42:59Gertz
43:00saying,
43:01well,
43:01you know
43:01this.
43:02I'm
43:02telling
43:03you
43:03the
43:03truth.
43:04And
43:04it
43:04must
43:05have
43:05been
43:05such
43:06a
43:06worm
43:07in
43:07her
43:07mind.
43:08Was
43:08Deracore
43:09a
43:09spy,
43:10a
43:10double
43:11agent?
43:12So
43:13who
43:13is
43:14telling
43:14the
43:14truth?
43:15Deracore
43:17or
43:17Gertz?
43:19One
43:20of
43:20the
43:20problems
43:20with
43:21trying
43:21to
43:21tease
43:22out
43:22a
43:23spy
43:23is
43:23that
43:24you
43:24have
43:24to
43:24trust
43:25people
43:25that
43:25you
43:25don't
43:25trust.
43:26And
43:27in
43:27this
43:27case,
43:28she's
43:28talking
43:28to
43:28people
43:28like
43:28Dr.
43:29Gertz
43:29from
43:29the
43:29SD.
43:30And
43:31it's
43:31in
43:31his
43:32vested
43:32interest
43:33and
43:33has
43:33been
43:33for
43:34years
43:35to
43:35play
43:36cat
43:36and
43:36mouse
43:36games
43:37with
43:37the
43:37SOE
43:38and
43:38with
43:38people
43:39like
43:39Vera.
43:39And
43:40so
43:40she
43:40has
43:40to
43:41decide,
43:41well,
43:41can
43:42I
43:42trust
43:42somebody
43:42like
43:43Dr.
43:43Gertz?
43:44So
43:44these
43:45doubts
43:45are
43:46also
43:46in
43:46her
43:46mind.
43:47What
43:47does
43:48she
43:48really
43:48know?
43:54The
43:55only
43:55way
43:55for
43:56Vera
43:56to
43:56be
43:57sure
43:57is
43:58to
43:58find
43:58the
43:58mastermind
43:59for
43:59all
44:00Nazi
44:00intelligence
44:01in
44:01northern
44:01France,
44:02Hans
44:03Kiefer.
44:05A
44:06man
44:06who
44:07is
44:07on
44:07the
44:07run
44:07hiding
44:08somewhere
44:09in
44:09Germany.
44:21But
44:21all
44:22of
44:22Vera's
44:22work
44:23comes
44:23into
44:23question
44:24when
44:24she
44:25receives
44:25a
44:25letter
44:25forwarded
44:26by
44:27her
44:27superior
44:27Norman
44:28Mott.
44:31The
44:32letter
44:32is
44:33written
44:33by
44:33Yolande
44:34Lagrave,
44:35a
44:35member
44:35of
44:36the
44:36French
44:36resistance.
44:39Lagrave
44:40writes
44:40that
44:41in
44:41June
44:411943
44:42she
44:43was
44:43arrested
44:44by
44:44the
44:44Gestapo
44:45and
44:45transferred
44:46to
44:47Pforzheim
44:47prison.
44:53I
44:54was
44:54able
44:54to
44:55correspond
44:55with
44:55an
44:55English
44:56parachutist
44:57who
44:57was
44:57locked
44:57up
44:57there
44:58also.
44:59She
44:59was
44:59very
45:00unhappy.
45:02Her
45:02hands
45:03and feet
45:03were
45:03chained
45:04and she
45:05was
45:05never
45:05allowed
45:06out.
45:07I
45:07heard
45:08the
45:08blows
45:08which
45:08she
45:09received
45:09from
45:09the
45:09prison
45:10guards.
45:10She
45:11was
45:11taken
45:11away
45:12from
45:12Forts
45:13Heim
45:13in
45:13September
45:141944.
45:16Before
45:16she
45:16left
45:17she
45:17had
45:18been
45:18able
45:18to
45:18send
45:18me
45:19not
45:19her
45:19name
45:20because
45:20it
45:20was
45:20too
45:21dangerous
45:21but
45:21her
45:21alias
45:22and she
45:23also
45:23wrote
45:23down
45:23her
45:24address
45:24for
45:24me.
45:25It
45:25was
45:25this
45:26Nora
45:27Baker
45:27Radio
45:28Centre
45:29Officer
45:29Service
45:30RAF
45:304
45:31Taveston
45:31Street
45:32London.
45:33I
45:34kept
45:34the
45:34address
45:35on a
45:35piece
45:35of
45:35paper
45:36sewn
45:36into
45:36my
45:36hand.
45:39Noor
45:40Inayat
45:40Khan
45:41had been
45:41recruited
45:42as a
45:42wireless
45:43operator
45:43from
45:44the
45:44WAF
45:44the
45:45women's
45:45division
45:46of
45:46the
45:46RAF.
45:484
45:49Taveston
45:50Street
45:50London
45:50had once
45:51been
45:52her
45:52family's
45:52home
45:53and
45:54Nora
45:54Baker
45:55had once
45:56been
45:57her
45:57alias.
46:10Vera
46:10believes
46:11the
46:11prisoner
46:11Lagrave
46:12writes
46:12about
46:13is
46:14Noor
46:15and
46:16if
46:16Noor
46:16had
46:16been
46:17held
46:17at
46:17Pforzheim
46:18until
46:18September
46:191944
46:21then
46:21there
46:21is
46:22no
46:22way
46:22she
46:22could
46:23have
46:23been
46:23one
46:23of
46:23the
46:23four
46:24women
46:24killed
46:24at
46:24Natswiler
46:25in
46:26July
46:261944.
46:29When
46:29Vera
46:30learns
46:30about
46:30Noor's
46:31fate
46:31and
46:32the
46:32fact
46:32that
46:32she's
46:32gone
46:32to
46:32Forzheim
46:33it's
46:33such
46:34a mix
46:34of
46:34emotions
46:35because
46:35here
46:36she
46:36thought
46:36she's
46:36written
46:37to
46:37the
46:37family
46:37that
46:38Noor
46:39has
46:39been
46:39killed
46:39in
46:39Natswiler
46:40she
46:41has
46:41internalized
46:42that
46:42now
46:43dealt
46:43with
46:43that
46:44thought
46:44there's
46:44been
46:44some
46:44closure
46:45and
46:45now
46:45this
46:46has
46:46opened
46:46up
46:46something
46:47else
46:47could
46:48Noor
46:48be
46:48alive
46:48did
46:49she
46:49manage
46:49to
46:49get
46:50out
46:50what
46:50happened
46:51to
46:57there
46:57is
46:58a
46:58sliver
46:58of
46:58hope
46:58but
46:59also
46:59what
47:00could
47:00have
47:00happened
47:00to
47:00Noor
47:02So
47:02what
47:03did
47:03happen
47:04to
47:04Noor
47:05If
47:06she
47:06wasn't
47:07killed
47:07at
47:07Natswiler
47:08could
47:08Noor
47:09still
47:09be
47:10alive
47:11Vera
47:12has
47:13to
47:13uncover
47:13the
47:14truth
47:28Don't
47:28see
47:29her
47:29see
47:29there
47:29for
47:29the
47:29the
47:29in
47:29the
47:29the
47:29the
47:29the
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