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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.
02:12The Allied invasion of Europe, to recapture France from the Nazis, has begun.
02:17The Allied invasion of Europe, to recapture France from the Nazis, has begun.
02:36the French resistance, supplied and coordinated by SOE, launch into action.
02:44The 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,
03:11blowing up telephone exchanges to 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,
03:26they receive one that is unusual.
03:29Sir, message from Paul's sign Leopold.
03:34Leopold?
03:37Leopold is inactive. He was arrested in 1943.
03:42Thank you for the large delivery of weapons and ammunition.
03:46Incredibly grateful for the information on your plans and objectives.
03:51Sign 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.
04:44Yes, sir.
04:54Still, SOE circuits and French resistance fighters
04:58continue 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
05:53that an order went out to hunt down Vera's agents.
06:00Just days after D-Day,
06:03F-Section received news on one of their agents,
06:06recently parachuted into France.
06:09F-Section.
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
06:25is just unthinkable.
06:28Where?
06:31The report is brief.
06:36Does it say where she's being held?
06:41It just says captured.
06:44Nothing else.
06:58In the Limousin region of France,
07:01resistance fighters pull off an audacious mission.
07:05They have kidnapped the commander of the 2nd SS Panzer Division,
07:10Das Reich.
07:11And, 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,
07:23trying to capture resistance members,
07:25and they start to punish the resistance for what they've done.
07:30The Nazis are out for revenge
07:33and choose the village of Ouradour-sur-Glane
07:36to send a bloody message to the 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.
07:56They'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.
08:07Sir, a report from France.
08:10You need to read it now.
08:19Buck?
08:25What is it?
08:29The SS.
08:33The Resistance captured their commander.
08:41They massacred a village.
08:45What?
08:49Over 600 dead.
08:51Women.
08:53Children.
09:01I thought the Germans had honor.
09:03That they acted like gentlemen.
09:08Look.
09:12I never thought they'd do something like this.
09:22The news of the massacre at Ouradour-sur-Glane
09:25really is shocking for Buckmaster
09:28that the Germans have sunk so low
09:30that they'll massacre innocent women and children.
09:35Where did this happen?
09:39Buck, where did this happen?
09:51Limousin.
09:54Limousin.
10:03Violet was operating out of Limousin
10:05before capture.
10:13But no further information on Violet
10:16has come through.
10:27In northern France,
10:29the Allies consolidate their foothold in Normandy
10:33and prepare to push out deeper into the country.
10:41F section is a hive of activity,
10:45organising weapons drops,
10:46ammunitions,
10:47explosives for the French Resistance
10:49to stop the Germans being able
10:51to defend themselves against the Allied attack.
10:58Buck, a message from callsign Bursa.
11:01The Scholar Circuit are requesting a supply drop
11:04to the Girard region.
11:06Bursa is Vera's agent, Yvonne Basden.
11:10And she's been operating in France
11:12for about three months in the Jura region,
11:14which is to the east of France.
11:17Authorise the drop.
11:20On the 25th of June 1944,
11:2332 flying fortresses were flown over by the RAF.
11:29And they released 440 parachutes.
11:33And attached to those parachutes
11:34were canisters full of weapons
11:36and explosives and arms
11:38and equipment needed by the Resistance.
11:44It's the largest daylight parachute drop
11:46of the war.
11:48Hidden at the drop zone
11:49is Yvonne
11:51with a team of Resistance fighters.
11:55It took 48 hours
11:57for those canisters to be emptied
11:59and for the equipment to be stored,
12:01meaning that every minute
12:02and every hour that went by,
12:04they were more and more at risk
12:06of being caught.
12:08But Yvonne was so excited
12:10when this happened.
12:11And she said,
12:12as every one of those parachutes opened,
12:14hope was attached to them.
12:20After a frantic two days on the ground,
12:25Yvonne and her team are exhausted.
12:28With the last container collected,
12:31they leave the drop zone
12:32and head back to their headquarters.
12:46At F section,
12:48messages from the circuits flood in.
12:51Targets are being hit.
12:54The Resistance are taking the fight
12:55to the Germans across the country.
13:00But that's tinged with uncertainty.
13:04What 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
13:17they've been waiting for.
13:21Eva, what is it?
13:34Vialet is with two Resistance men
13:37and they're driving to meet other SOE leaders.
13:40But what they don't know
13:42is the Resistance have caught
13:44one of the SS commanders
13:45of the 2nd Panzer Division
13:47and the Germans are frantic to get him back.
13:49They start mounting roadblocks
13:52and they start searching people,
13:54asking 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.
14:09What?
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,
14:16they'll find our weapons.
14:17We have British weapons.
14:19If they search the car,
14:20they'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 Violet's escaping,
15:13she twists her ankle.
15:14It was already damaged
15:15from the parachute drop she'd done
15:17during training as an SOE agent.
15:30Are you hit?
15:31No.
15:32It's my ankle.
15:33Can you walk on it?
15:34No.
15:35You go.
15:36I'll fan them off as long as I can.
15:39Go.
15:40Go!
15:42She's basically immobile at this point.
15:45So she provides cover fire
15:47for the Resistance men
15:49so that they can get away.
15:50I'll find out.
15:55Run!
16:01Run!!
16:03Run!
16:04$50,000!
16:05-huh! Shoot
16:05Ah!
16:06Ah!
16:07Ah!
16:07Oh!
16:12Huh!
16:14Ah!
16:16Ah!
16:38The report ends.
16:42Violette 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.
18:26Goodbye, Miss Atkins.
18:28Sorry, 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.
19:08Many 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.
19:37Sixteen of them are Vera's women.
19:58After the liberation at the hotel where F section have set up a new office,
20:03a man turns up and he's angry.
20:06He's furious.
20:09Marcel Rousset, an F section agent with the code name Leopold,
20:14demands 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?
20:26Now!
20:27He had been captured by the Gestapo and in fact it was even his radio that was used by the
20:32Gestapo
20:33to send the taunting signals to SOE headquarters on D-Day.
20:40Hello, I'm Nancy. How can I help?
20:42Sorry, I need chance.
20:43I am...
20:43He is angry.
20:45He's absolutely furious at mistakes that SOE has made,
20:50that 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.
21:06He might know who has survived.
21:11Rousset says how stupid everyone at F section had been,
21:16particularly Buckmaster and Vera, and how they had risked agents' lives.
21:23The SD, Sicherheitsdienst, forced him to relay radio messages back to London.
21:29And he quite deliberately, totally follows SOE protocol,
21:34which is that he doesn't include special code words as a warning to 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,
21:54and provides Vera with important leads to the whereabouts of her missing agents.
22:07At F section, Vera receives Rousset's interrogation report.
22:15After his arrest, he's taken to the SD headquarters in Paris,
22:21at 84 Avenue Foch.
22:27The SD is the SS intelligence agency,
22:32and worked hand in hand with the Gestapo.
22:35Here, Rousset is confronted with Prosper's wireless operator,
22:41Gilbert Norman, codenamed Butcher.
22:45It was Norman who told the Germans that Rousset was SOE,
22:50wireless operator, Leopold.
22:54And he also tells Rousset that the Gestapo know everything about SOE,
23:00and their activities.
23:06So, Sittal, who was the organizer of that circuit,
23:10and Norman, had given up everything about the Prosper's circuit in Paris,
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?
23:29What had he told them?
23:31Can you imagine how awful it was for Vera?
23:34Just finding out that they could have revealed so much
23:37that 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,
23:56he manages to communicate with an SOE agent in the cell next to his.
24:02Rousset learns that a wireless operator with the codename Madeleine
24:06is also being held by the Nazis.
24:11Noor Inyat Khan goes under the codename Madeleine.
24:16Noor 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
24:33that Noor had been in the Gestapo's prison in Paris.
24:39His 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
24:55have been transferred to Germany.
24:57Where were they?
24:58Where have they gone?
25:01Could those women have been her agents?
25:03Could one of them have been Noor?
25:07Frustratingly, Rousset's intel now dries up.
25:12He remains in the Gestapo's prison,
25:14working as a cleaner until two days after D-Day.
25:20Noticing a gate unlocked,
25:23he knocks out a guard
25:25and makes his escape.
25:49Vera haunts the F-Section operations room,
25:54waiting for any news on her missing women spies.
26:01Then, a report comes in
26:04from a member of Yvonne Bazden's SOE circuit.
26:11After Yvonne and her colleagues had hidden all the equipment
26:14that had come in on this daylight parachute drop,
26:17they headed back to their headquarters.
26:22But soon after they arrive, everything changes.
26:28The Germans, they're coming.
26:31What?
26:32We spotted a patrol of German soldiers.
26:34They'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
26:56that this building might be of some interest
26:58and they're just going to do a cursory search.
27:25There is literally nobody in sight.
27:27They can't find anybody.
27:28So they leave, but they just leave behind one
27:31person.
27:33He's effectively watching it just in case something happens
27:36or somebody arrives.
27:37One can only imagine what would be going through the minds
27:40of Yvonne and her team as they are hiding,
27:43holding their breath, not moving,
27:45because they have to be totally quiet.
27:48And then the plumbing makes a noise.
27:57Hello?
27:59Is there anybody in there?
28:08I heard something.
28:10Keep searching.
28:32Keep searching.
28:47In London, Vera scours allied intelligence reports,
28:51searching for any clues to her agents' whereabouts.
28:56who survived where were they being held and where were they now she has cause for optimism
29:06some 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
29:48she has to find out where they are
29:55the work is all-encompassing
29:59searching for any trace of where her agents were transported to in germany
30:06and 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
30:59he'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 honor
31:37but i was informed during the last few days before the departure of the germans
31:41that several people have been taken downstairs into the courtyard
31:45and shot
31:49it's a tragic revelation were her agents executed in this group
31:58she has to track down kiefer he must know where vera's agents are he must know what's happened to them
32:13in the meantime she has the agonizing task of updating the families of the missing agents
32:19on what is known about them
32:25before nor departed for france vera had promised to send her mother periodic good news letters
32:33which she had
32:36but now the tone of these letters has to change from all the reports of nor's training everybody
32:45was saying that she wasn't ready but 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
33:08with your daughter due to the confused state of affairs in france we were not unduly worried
33:13but i am afraid now your daughter must be considered as missing
33:19although there is every reason to believe that she will eventually be notified to us as a prisoner
33:24of war just the idea of writing letters to the family that's heartbreaking but vera's got other
33:31issues that she has to worry about the british government was never very happy about sending
33:36women combatants overseas because they were not protected by the geneva convention and that meant
33:41the nazis could do whatever they liked with them she also has fear about her own future because
33:48once it is revealed in the public that something has happened to these women she's also fearful
33:53about 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
34:09the nazis could do whatever she wants to do except through me
34:23by january 1945 the allies are making steady gains
34:30and nazi germany is on its knees
34:43but many agents are still missing despite combing through any and all intelligence documents
34:51vera'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 so that when they liberate camps and prisoners of war they can see if any of
35:15her
35:15agents are prisoners they can rescue them at the height of f section operations vera is buckmaster's
35:22right-hand man she's right in the center of all of the major decisions but once f section is over
35:28and
35:28buckmaster is gone it becomes incredibly difficult to convince anybody that her plight within soe is worth pursuing
35:37particularly john center the head of soe's security division and a commander in the royal navy
35:47atkins yes sir a memo of yours just came across my desk yes sir
35:56a memo suggesting that we give out the names of our agents
36:05publish their names for the red cross the american army the soviet army
36:16yes sir so that once those forces begin liberating p.o.w camps they will have a register of all
36:22of our missing agents
36:28atkins you do understand what we do here the work we did during the war
36:34yes sir but then you'll also understand the meaning of secret
36:38secret as in the term secret agent
36:43sir if i may flight 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
37:12on a register for our enemies to see sir the germans are spent this is our best chance of finding
37:22our agents women agents alive
37:31consider your request denied
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 all she can do is just pick up on intelligence reports
37:59to find out what's happened to these agents because unless she finds out who will
38:10in march 1945 vera receives a report by french investigators searching friend 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
38:31next to the name of one of the prisoners is n and n this means
38:36nacht und nebel or night and fog the nacht und nebel order was
38:42decreed by hitler that people who have been involved in espionage or resistance are
38:49to 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 but they're supposed to disappear
39:02without a trace they will disappear as into night and fog time is running out to find her missing women
39:11alive
39:20by april 1945 germany is in total collapse
39:27the foreign office now they want to release the soe agents names vera is allowed to issue the names of
39:36her agents so that people liberating these prisoner of war camps can find them
39:42if they are found there is now a register for their return to britain if they survived
40:06on the 30th of april 1945 with berlin all but captured by the red army
40:15it is in total
40:16hitler commits suicide
40:24by the 8th of may the allies accept nazi germany's unconditional surrender the 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.
41:32Where are we going?
41:34I'm taking you home. Your father is waiting.
41:37My father?
41:48My father is waiting.
42:08I'm taking you home.
42:38I'm weak.
42:41Let me make you something to eat.
43:05What happened after you were captured?
43:09Did you see anyone else?
43:11Other agents?
43:18Yvonne, I need you to think.
43:29After I was caught, they sent me east to a prison, to a place called Saarbrocken.
43:44And then there I started seeing some familiar faces, agents I'd been in training with.
43:54I saw, I saw, they've got the hold of Baker Street.
44:02I didn't talk to them.
44:04I, I, I, I, I, I, I, 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.
44:18That was my cover.
44:20So I... I had to keep my distance.
44:23I... I couldn't let the Nazis know that I was an agent.
44:31It was my only hope of getting out alive.
44:40Then... Then they moved us all to a camp north of Berlin.
44:49Who went with you?
44:54I remember Violette.
44:58A couple of others from... from F section.
45:03Violette Szabo.
45:06Yes.
45:10Violette and the others, we were all there.
45:13We were all sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp.
45:17It was a camp just for women.
45:23Ravensbrück.
45:26A women's only concentration camp.
45:34Yes.
45:38At this time, very little is widely known about concentration camps.
45:43Very few people have heard about them.
45:44The idea of there being one just for women.
45:47I mean, it's completely horrifying.
45:51One day...
45:55Violette...
45:56and the others just...
45:59just disappeared.
46:06I never saw them again.
46:07I never saw them again.
46:13Then, 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 use them.
46:31While horrific that Vera finds out her agents went to Ravensbrück,
46:35the female concentration camp.
46:37She can place them somewhere and she knows where they were.
46:57I'll leave you with.
46:59You have a lot to catch up on.
47:09There was incredibly happy to find Yvonne.
47:12It might be possible she's able to trace all of her missing agents.
47:19But had they survived?
47:21And where were they all now?
47:31When was game or imagined and hit up?
47:50Like me, atienia chords reached Ladies on the Pilgrimburg.
47:50Mucho as well.
47:50I still gotta do this by that.
47:51I can't wait for black ages.
47:53There's bedeutet of clocks that won't harm them.
47:53But I didn't try again and see them.
47:53But I didn't kill my lowest practicing,
47:53I knew what he was doing.
47:54Where did he do that in My comfortably?
47:54I'll leave you with favour of them.
47:55The police are the police and kommun.
47:56We are the police officers coming to the square than OLY kita.
48:11Transcription by CastingWords
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