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00:03In the Second World War, British spy agency, the SOE, send more and more female agents behind enemy lines.
00:20With D-Day on the horizon, these women, handpicked by spymaster Vera Atkins,
00:27make daring attacks against Hitler's troops from deep inside Nazi-occupied France.
00:41But, as the Allies push towards Paris,
00:46the Gestapo brutally cracks down.
00:50Unfortunately, some of your agents had to be shot.
00:57What the hell are they playing at?
00:59One by one, Vera's women disappear.
01:03We can't be captured.
01:08Hide what you can, then hide yourself.
01:13We go now. Move!
01:15Halt!
01:29You go. I'll send them off as long as I can. Go! Go!
01:39But, with France liberated, and the Nazis defeated, many are still missing.
01:47Vera's mission was to send these women to war.
01:52Now, she'll do whatever it takes to find them and bring them home.
02:11The Allied invasion of Europe to recapture France from the Nazis has begun.
02:36Across France, the French resistance, supplied and coordinated by SOE, launch into action.
02:49In London, F-Section monitor the sabotage activity.
02:56There's palpable excitement.
02:59Buckmaster and Vera are watching as these messages come in.
03:04There's already been acts of sabotage, trying to disrupt the train lines,
03:08trying to disrupt communication lines, blow up bridges, blowing up telephone exchanges,
03:13to try and disrupt the Germans as much as possible.
03:18It's chaotic, but it's exhilarating.
03:21In the flurry of messages coming in from their agents, they receive one that is unusual.
03:29Sir, message from Paul's sign Leopold.
03:34Leopold?
03:37Leopold is inactive. He was arrested in 43.
03:42Thank you for the large delivery of weapons and ammunition.
03:46Incredibly grateful for the information on your plans and objectives.
03:52Signed the Gestapo.
03:56The Gestapo?
04:00It's not the only message F-Section received that day from the Nazis' feared secret police.
04:09Buck?
04:10Another.
04:12Thank you for the supply drop. Equipment gratefully received.
04:16Unfortunately, some of your agents had to be shot.
04:21Others were more open to do what we asked.
04:24The Gestapo.
04:26What the hell are they playing at?
04:31Send a reply.
04:34Sorry to see your nerves are shot.
04:37And your resilience isn't as strong as ours.
04:41Buckmaster.
04:42Yes, sir.
04:54Still, SOE circuits and French resistance fighters continue their clandestine attacks against the Nazis.
05:06And the Allied soldiers fight their way ashore.
05:10But their position is precarious.
05:13They need to firm up their hold of the beachhead.
05:18And be ready for when German reinforcements hit back.
05:30Work at F-Section doesn't stop.
05:35Wireless messages of German targets being hit continue to stream in.
05:42Sabotage by those SOE networks was absolutely crucial during D-Day.
05:49And the Germans were so angry at this success that an order went out to hunt down Vera's agents.
06:00Just days after D-Day, F-Section received news on one of their agents, recently parachuted into France.
06:10Fuck.
06:13Violette Sabot has been captured.
06:17Violette is already a widow.
06:19She's got a two-year-old daughter.
06:22And the thought that Violette might not come back is just unthinkable.
06:28Where?
06:31The report is brief.
06:36Does it say where she's being held?
06:41It just says captured.
06:43Nothing else.
06:58In the Limousin region of France, resistance fighters pull off an audacious mission.
07:05They have kidnapped the commander of the 2nd SS Panzer Division, Das Reich.
07:12And, of course, the Nazis are furious about this.
07:15They want their commander back.
07:17And so they start to ramp up their control of the area.
07:21They put in roadblocks, trying to capture resistance members.
07:26And they start to punish the resistance for what they've done.
07:30The Nazis are out for revenge and choose the village of Ourador-sur-Glane to send a bloody message to
07:38the French people.
07:44In London, F-Section monitors sabotage attacks across France.
07:50They've hit another fuel depot.
07:53Good.
07:54Their tanks are thirsty beasts.
07:57They'll be running on fumes by the time they reach Normandy.
07:59If they may get that far.
08:03But soon, news of the massacre reaches Buckmaster.
08:08Sir, a report from France.
08:10You need to read it now.
08:19Buck?
08:25What is it?
08:28The SS.
08:33The Resistance captured their commander.
08:41They massacred a village.
08:44What?
08:48Over 600 dead.
08:51Women.
08:53Children.
09:01I thought the Germans had honour.
09:03That they acted like gentlemen.
09:08Buck.
09:12I never thought they'd do something like this.
09:22The news of the massacre at Ourador-sur-Glane really is shocking for Buckmaster.
09:28That the Germans have sunk so low that they'll massacre innocent women and children.
09:35Where did this happen?
09:39Buck, where did this happen?
09:41Buck, where did this happen?
09:50A limousine.
09:53A limousine.
09:56A limousine.
09:56A limousine.
10:04Violet was operating out of the limousine.
10:06Before capture.
10:13But no further information on Violet has come through.
10:18But no further information on Violet has come through.
10:38Yes.
10:41F section is a hive of activity.
10:45Organising weapons drops, ammunitions, explosives for the French Resistance to stop the Germans
10:50being able to defend themselves against the Allied attack.
10:58Buck.
10:59A message from callsign Bursa.
11:01The Scholar Circuit are requesting a supply drop to the Jura region.
11:06Bursa is Vera's agent, Yvonne Bazden.
11:10And she's been operating in France for about three months in the Jura region, which is to the east of
11:15France.
11:17Authorise the drop.
11:20On the 25th of June, 1944, 32 flying fortresses were flown over by the RAF.
11:29And they released 440 parachutes.
11:33And attached to those parachutes were canisters full of weapons and explosives and arms and equipment needed by the resistance.
11:44It's the largest daylight parachute drop of the war.
11:48Hidden at the drop zone is Yvonne with a team of resistance fighters.
11:55It took 48 hours for those canisters to be emptied and for the equipment to be stored.
12:01Meaning that every minute and every hour that went by, they were more and more at risk of being caught.
12:08But Yvonne was so excited when this happened.
12:11And she said, as every one of those parachutes opened, hope was attached to them.
12:20After a frantic two days on the ground, Yvonne and her team are exhausted.
12:28With the last container collected, they leave the drop zone and head back to their headquarters.
12:46At F section, messages from the circuits flood in.
12:51Targets are being hit.
12:53The resistance are taking the fight to the Germans across the country.
13:00But that's tinged with uncertainty.
13:05What about the agents?
13:07How many have survived?
13:09How many have the Germans managed to capture?
13:13Then, F section finally receives the report they've been waiting for.
13:21Eva, what is it?
13:34Vialet is with two resistance men and they're driving to meet other SOE leaders.
13:40But what they don't know is the resistance have caught one of the SS commanders of the 2nd Panzer Division.
13:47And the Germans are frantic to get him back.
13:50They start mounting roadblocks and they start searching people, asking everybody for their papers.
13:55Where were they when this happened?
14:00No.
14:01What?
14:03I thought you said this road was clear.
14:07It was.
14:08It was.
14:09It was.
14:10It's a new checkpoint.
14:12They can't search us.
14:13I know.
14:14They can't search us.
14:15If they search the car, they'll find our weapons.
14:17We have British weapons.
14:19If they search the car, they'll know we're resistance.
14:26We can't be captured.
14:28Stop the car.
14:40We'll make for the woods.
14:42Try to lose them.
14:45We go now.
14:46Move.
14:49Halt!
15:11As Violette's escaping, she twists her ankle.
15:14It was already damaged from the parachute drop she'd done during training as an SOE agent.
15:30Are you hit?
15:31No.
15:32It's my ankle.
15:33Can you walk on it then?
15:34No.
15:35You go.
15:36I'll fan them off as long as I can.
15:38Go.
15:40Go!
15:42She's basically immobile at this point.
15:45So she provides cover fire for the resistance men.
15:49so that they can get away.
16:38The report ends.
16:41Violette was held by the SS in the French city of Limoges.
16:48But has since disappeared.
16:52She is one of many agents now missing.
17:06Since D-Day, Allied forces have made steady gains against the Germans.
17:14Two months after the Normandy landings, the Nazis are forced to abandon the French capital.
17:26The liberation of Paris was the moment everybody had been waiting for.
17:31The relief of finally being able to be in the city and not be under German occupation just must have
17:37been phenomenal.
17:39With the Allies pushing deeper into France, what's left of SOE's circuits begin to lose their importance.
17:50Boddington is travelling.
17:53He's lecturing to Allied forces on the conditions in France.
17:57Buckmaster himself has set up in the Hotel Cecil in Paris.
18:01And he will then very quickly start a tour of the surviving circuits.
18:08At F section, work begins to slow down and staff start to leave.
18:16But disturbing reports are coming in about the fate of SOE's agents.
18:22Vera is tasked with making sense of them all.
18:27Goodbye, Miss Atkins.
18:28Sorry, a flight, Officer Atkins.
18:32Yes, goodbye.
18:37But Vera, no longer a civilian and now commissioned in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, stays in London.
18:50Paris is back in Allied hands.
18:54But the victory came at a huge cost to SOE's agents.
18:59It was understood that the casualty numbers would be quite high, particularly surrounding the D-Day landings.
19:09Many more female agents had been sent out in 1944 than before.
19:14And this was Vera's responsibility.
19:17She's the one who's sent them to France in the first place.
19:21With Paris liberated, the human toll of this decision comes into focus.
19:29Of the more than 400 SOE agents dispatched to France, 118 are missing.
19:3716 of them are Vera's women.
19:58After the liberation at the hotel where F Section have set up a new office, a man turns up and
20:05he's angry.
20:06He's furious.
20:09Marcel Rousset, an F Section agent with the code name Leopold, demands to see anyone in the British Secret Service.
20:22I'm sorry to interrupt, but do you think you could fetch someone from SOE for me? Now!
20:27He had been captured by the Gestapo and in fact it was even his radio that was used by the
20:32Gestapo to send the taunting signals to SOE headquarters on D-Day.
20:40Hello, I'm Nancy. How can I help?
20:43He is angry. He's absolutely furious at mistakes that SOE has made, that so many agents have been captured.
20:53Please take a seat here, sir.
20:56An SOE officer sits down with Rousset for a debriefing on his time in captivity.
21:02He might know who has actually been arrested by the Gestapo. He might know who has survived.
21:09So, Buckmaster...
21:11Rousset says how stupid everyone at F Section had been, particularly Buckmaster and Vera, and how they had risked agents'
21:21lives.
21:21I would love, I would love to meet him basically.
21:24The SD, Sicherheitsdienst, forced him to relay radio messages back to London.
21:30And he quite deliberately, totally follows SOE protocol, which is that he doesn't include special code words as a warning
21:38to SOE,
21:40but they just ignored this and continued to accept the messages that came from his radio as genuine.
21:49His interrogation report is explosive and provides Vera with important leads to the whereabouts of her missing agents.
22:06At F Section, Vera receives Rousset's interrogation report.
22:15After his arrest, he's taken to the SD headquarters in Paris, at 84 Avenue Foch.
22:27The SD is the SS intelligence agency and worked hand in hand with the Gestapo.
22:36Here, Rousset is confronted with Prosper's wireless operator, Gilbert Norman, codenamed Butcher.
22:45It was Norman who told the Germans that Rousset was SOE, wireless operator, Leopold.
22:54And he also tells Rousset that the Gestapo know everything about SOE and their activities.
23:06So, Sittal, who was the organiser of that circuit, and Norman, had given up everything about the Prosper circuit in
23:15Paris,
23:16in order to try and save his life and maybe other agents' lives as well.
23:22Rousset is advised to do the same.
23:26Had he given up every piece of information? What had he told them?
23:31Can you imagine how awful it was for Vera?
23:33Just finding out that they could have revealed so much that every time Vera sent a woman over,
23:40she was just basically feeding them straight into the German prisons.
23:46In the Gestapo's cells, Rousset is held in solitary confinement.
23:53But, by tapping on the wall in Morse code, he manages to communicate with an SOE agent in the cell
24:00next to his.
24:02Rousset learns that a wireless operator with the codename Madeleine is also being held by the Nazis.
24:10Nor Inyat Khan goes under the codename Madeleine.
24:16Nor hadn't surfaced after the liberation of Paris.
24:22Vera assumed she'd been captured.
24:25But no further intel had been discovered.
24:31Rousset's report suggests that Nor had been in the Gestapo's prison in Paris.
24:40His report continues.
24:43From Paris, the women prisoners were then transferred to Germany.
24:49This is news to Vera.
24:52She wasn't aware that any female prisoners have been transferred to Germany.
24:57Where were they? Where have they gone?
25:00Could those women have been her agents? Could one of them have been Nor?
25:05Or.
25:07Frustratingly, Rousset's intel now dries up.
25:12He remains in the Gestapo's prison, working as a cleaner until two days after D-Day.
25:20Noticing a gate unlocked, he knocks out a guard and makes his escape.
25:49Vera haunts the F-Section operations room.
25:54Vera haunts the F-Section operations room.
25:56Kara's in her police force, she's in prison to bring her on in the streets.
25:57And Maria lives to the women's spies.
26:01Then, a report comes in from a member of Yvonne Bazestan's S.O.E. Circuit.
26:08it. After Yvonne and her colleagues had hidden all the equipment that had come in on this
26:15daylight parachute drop, they headed back to their headquarters. But soon after they
26:23arrive, everything changes.
26:28The Germans, they're coming.
26:31What?
26:32We spotted a patrol of German soldiers. They're heading for us.
26:35Do we have time to move?
26:37No.
26:39Hide what you can, then hide yourself.
26:53The Germans who arrived, they just heard a tip-off that this building might be of some
26:58interest, and they're just going to do a cursory search.
27:25There is literally nobody in sight. They can't find anybody. So they leave, but they just
27:30leave behind one person.
27:33He's effectively watching it just in case something happens or somebody arrives. One
27:38can only imagine what would be going through the minds of Yvonne and her team as they are
27:42hiding, holding their breath, not moving, because they have to be totally quiet. And then the
27:50plumbing makes a noise.
27:53The bomb has warned bombs, and they have to be trouble once again. But they are
27:57Hello? Is anybody in there?
28:08I heard something. Keep searching.
28:47In London, Vera scours Allied intelligence reports, searching for any clues to her agent's
28:54whereabouts.
28:57Who survived? Where were they being held? And where were they now?
29:03She has cause for optimism. Some agents are surfacing after the liberation of Paris.
29:13One of her agents, Mary Herbert, astonishingly has survived hiding in a farmhouse in France.
29:20It gives Vera hope that some of the other women might still be alive.
29:28But for those still missing, few details are known.
29:34F section operations are all but wound down. But Vera remains.
29:43She is worried about her agents, about the women she sent into the field. She has to find out where
29:51they are.
29:55The work is all-encompassing. Searching for any trace of where her agents were transported to in Germany.
30:05And where they could be rescued from once the Allies are victorious.
30:12In October, British officials investigate 84 Avenue Foch.
30:20The Nazis' former intelligence headquarters in Paris.
30:27Some of her agents were held in captivity there.
30:32By piecing together what happened there, maybe she'll get some information about her lost agents.
30:40I visited the torture chamber at Avenue Foch, where Kiefer had an office.
30:52Hans Kiefer was the head of the SD in Paris during the German occupation.
31:00He's the man who convinced Gilbert Norman to reveal everything he knew about SOE operations.
31:08Hans Kiefer would have been personally in charge of the SOE agents who were held at that prison.
31:15Kiefer would have to have known, first of all, who was held in his prison and what happened to them.
31:25The report continues.
31:28I found a moving inscription from men and women who knew they had lost everything except their honour.
31:37But I was informed during the last few days before the departure of the Germans
31:41that several people had been taken downstairs into the courtyard and shot.
31:49It's a tragic revelation.
31:53Were her agents executed in this group?
31:57She has to track down Kiefer.
32:00He must know where Vera's agents are.
32:04He must know what's happened to them.
32:13In the meantime, she has the agonising task of updating the families of the missing agents on what is known
32:21about them.
32:25Before Noor departed for France, Vera had promised to send her mother periodic good news letters, which she had.
32:36But now, the tone of these letters has to change.
32:42From all the reports of Noor's training, everybody was saying that she wasn't ready.
32:47But Paris needed a wireless operator.
32:50And immediately, she'd put this young woman into the jaws of the Gestapo.
33:01Dear Mrs. Inayat Khan, I am extremely sorry to have to inform you that we have recently lost touch with
33:08your daughter.
33:09Due to the confused state of affairs in France, we were not unduly worried, but I am afraid now your
33:15daughter must be considered as missing.
33:19Although there is every reason to believe that she will eventually be notified to us as a prisoner of war.
33:26Just the idea of writing letters to the family, that's heartbreaking.
33:30But Vera's got other issues that she has to worry about.
33:33The British government was never very happy about sending women combatants overseas, because they were not protected by the Geneva
33:40Convention.
33:40And that meant the Nazis could do whatever they liked with them.
33:45She also has fear about her own future, because once it is revealed in the public that something has happened
33:51to these women,
33:52she's also fearful about the consequences for her as the person who sent them out.
34:02I would impress upon you, in the interests of your daughter's safety, that you make no inquiries with regard to
34:09her, except through me.
34:23By January 1945, the Allies are making steady gains, and Nazi Germany is on its knees.
34:43But many agents are still missing.
34:47Despite combing through any and all intelligence documents, Vera's investigation finds no trace of them.
34:57She now lobbies inside SOE.
35:04What Vera wants to do, as the Allies are moving through Germany, is to give the names of her agents
35:09to the Allied troops,
35:10so that when they liberate camps and prisoners of war, they can see if any of her agents are prisoners.
35:16They can rescue them.
35:18At the height of F Section operations, Vera is Buckmaster's right-hand man.
35:23She's right in the centre of all of the major decisions.
35:26But once F Section is over, and Buckmaster is gone, it becomes incredibly difficult to convince anybody that her plight
35:34within SOE is worth pursuing.
35:37Particularly, John Centre, the head of SOE's security division, and a commander in the Royal Navy.
35:46Atkins?
35:47Yes, sir.
35:49A memo of yours just came across my desk.
35:53Yes, sir.
35:56A memo suggesting that we give out the names of our agents?
36:05Publish their names for the Red Cross.
36:09The American Army.
36:12The Soviet Army.
36:16Yes, sir.
36:17So that once those forces begin liberating POW camps, they will have a register of all of our missing agents.
36:27Atkins.
36:28You do understand what we do here.
36:31The work we did during the war.
36:34Yes, sir.
36:35But-
36:36Then you'll also understand the meaning of secret.
36:38As in the term secret agent.
36:43Sir, if I may-
36:44Flight officer Atkins!
36:47Let me remind you, you are addressing a commander in the Royal Navy.
36:52Sir.
36:58The war is not yet over.
37:02How long do you think it would be before the Germans also got to see those names?
37:09Why should we advertise who our agents are?
37:13On a register.
37:15For our enemies to see.
37:17Sir, the Germans are spent.
37:20This is our best chance of finding our agents, women agents alive.
37:31Consider your request denied on security grounds.
37:36He's wanting to find out where were the security leaks in SOE.
37:40He's not interested in the fate of the missing agents.
37:47Stick with the welfare work.
37:54Vera is stymied from trying to find her agents.
37:57All she can do is just pick up on intelligence reports to find out what's happened to these agents.
38:03Because unless she finds out, who will?
38:10In March 1945, Vera receives a report by French investigators searching Fren prison in Paris.
38:20This is the Gestapo prison where people were held when they were not being interrogated and tortured.
38:26And it indicates something really quite disturbing for Vera.
38:30Next to the name of one of the prisoners is N and N.
38:36This means Nacht und Nebel, or night and fog.
38:40The Nacht und Nebel order was decreed by Hitler that people who have been involved in espionage or resistance
38:49are to him so despicable that they have to be punished in an extraordinary way.
38:55Not only will they be captured, interrogated, tortured and then killed,
39:00but they're supposed to disappear without a trace.
39:03They will disappear as into night and fog.
39:07Time is running out to find her missing women alive.
39:20By April 1945, Germany is in total collapse.
39:27The Foreign Office, now they want to release the SOE agents' names.
39:32Vera is allowed to issue the names of her agents so that people liberating these prisoner of war camps can
39:40find them.
39:42If they are found, there is now a register for their return to Britain.
39:48If they survived.
40:06On the 30th of April 1945, with Berlin all but captured by the Red Army,
40:15Hitler commits suicide.
40:23By the 8th of May, the Allies accept Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender.
40:31The war in Europe is over.
40:49Amid the celebrations in London, Vera gets news that gives her hope her agents survived.
40:57On the 20th of May 1945, Yvonne Bazden, captured and missing, turns up at Euston Station in London.
41:12Miss Atkins, how did you get here?
41:31Where are we going?
41:34I'm taking you home.
41:35Your father is waiting.
41:37My father.
41:49From Euston Station, Vera takes Yvonne Bazden back to her family home in Brockwood Park in London.
42:06Yvonne Bazdenā
42:08Yvonne Bazdenā
42:16ā Please, come here.
42:36you look um weak let me make you something to eat
43:05what happened after you were captured did you see anyone else other agents
43:18uh Yvonne I need you to think
43:28um after I was caught they sent me uh east to a uh to a prison
43:38to a place called Saarbrocken um that there I started seeing some
43:48some familiar faces agents I'd been in training with
43:54I saw
43:57they've got the hold of Baker Street
44:02I didn't talk to them I I I kept my distance
44:09you see I told the Germans after they caught me that I was just an ordinary French girl
44:16caught in the wrong place at the wrong time that was my cover
44:20so I I had to keep my distance I I couldn't let the Nazis know that I was an agent
44:31it was my only hope of getting out alive
44:37uh uh then then then they moved us um all to a camp uh north of Berlin
44:49who went with you
44:54I remember Violette
44:57a couple of others from from F section
45:03Violette Sabo
45:06yes
45:10Violette and and the others we were all there we were all sent to um um RavensbrĆ¼ck
45:15a concentration camp it was a camp just for women
45:23RavensbrĆ¼ck
45:26a women's only concentration camp
45:33yes
45:38at this time very little is widely known about concentration camps
45:42very few people have heard about them the idea of there being one just for women
45:47I mean it it's completely horrifying
45:52one day
45:56Violette and the others just
46:00just disappeared
46:06I never saw them again
46:13and then um the Russians came and liberated us
46:17the Red Cross uh took me to Malmo in Sweden in a bus
46:21the RAF flew me to Scotland
46:25I found a train to Houston
46:31while horrific that Vera finds out her agents went to RavensbrĆ¼ck the female concentration camp
46:37she can place them somewhere and she knows where they were
46:54thank you
46:57I'll leave you with
46:59you have a lot to catch up on
47:09Vera was incredibly happy to find Yvonne
47:11it might be possible she's able to trace all of her missing agents
47:19but had they survived and where were they all now
47:58I never saw them
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