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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.
02:31Here's the plane.
02:36Across France, the French resistance supplied and coordinated by SOE
02:41launch 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.
03:03There's already been acts of sabotage,
03:06trying to disrupt the train lines,
03:08trying to disrupt communication lines,
03:10blowing 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,
03:26they receive one that is unusual.
03:30Sir, message from Paul's sign Leopold.
03:34Leopold?
03:37Leopold is the native.
03:38He 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.
03:52Signed the Gestapo.
03:56The Gestapo?
04:00It's not the only message F-section received that day
04:04from the Nazis' feared secret police.
04:09Buck?
04:10Another.
04:12Thank you for the supply drop.
04:14Equipment gratefully received.
04:16Unfortunately, some of your agents
04:19had 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
04:36and 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
05:38continue to stream in.
05:42Sabotage by those SOE networks
05:45was absolutely crucial during D-Day.
05:49And the Germans were so angry at this success
05:53that an order went out
05:55to 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.
06:09Fuck.
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?
06:40It just says captured.
06:43Nothing else.
06:58In the Limousin region of France,
07:01resistance fighters pull off an audacious mission.
07:05They have kidnapped the commander
07:07of 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've put in roadblocks,
07:23trying to capture resistance members,
07:25and they start to punish the resistance
07:28for what they've done.
07:30The Nazis are out for revenge
07:33and choose the village of Oredor-sur-Glan
07:36to send a bloody message to the French people.
07:44In London, F-Section monitors sabotage attacks
07:48across 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.
08:08Sir, a report from France.
08:10You need to read it now.
08:19Buck?
08:26What is it?
08:29The SS.
08:33The resistance captured their commander.
08:42They massacred a village.
08:44What?
08:48Over 600 dead.
08:51Women.
08:54Children.
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 Oredor-sur-Glan
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?
09:50A limousine.
09:54Limousine.
10:03Violet was operating out of the limousine
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,
10:45organizing weapons drops,
10:46ammunitions, explosives
10:48for 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 Jura region.
11:07Bursa is Vera's agent, Yvonne Bazden.
11:10And she's been operating in France for about three months
11:13in the Jura region, which is to the east of France.
11:17Authorize 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 were canisters
11:35full of weapons and explosives and arms
11:38and equipment needed by the resistance.
11:44It's the largest daylight parachute drop of the war.
11:48Hidden at the drop zone is Yvonne
11:51with a team of resistance fighters.
11:55It took 48 hours for those canisters to be emptied
11:59and for the equipment to be stored,
12:01meaning that every minute and every hour that went by,
12:04they 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,
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 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
12:56across 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
13:17they've been waiting for.
13:21Eva, what is it?
13:33Violet is with two resistance men
13:37and they're driving to meet other SOE leaders.
13:40But what they don't know is the resistance
13:43have caught one of the SS commanders
13:45of the 2nd Panzer Division
13:47and the Germans are frantic to get him back.
13:50They 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.
14:08What?
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 make for the woods try to lose them we go now move
15:10as violette's escaping she twists her ankle it was already damaged from the parachute
15:16drop she'd done during training as an soe agent
15:30are you hit no it's my ankle can you walk on it no you go i'll send them off as
15:37long as i can go go
15:42she's basically immobile at this point so she provides cover fire for the resistance men so
15:49that they can get away
16:37the report ends
16:41violette was held by the ss in the french city of limoges but 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
17:37phenomenal with the allies pushing deeper into france what's left of soe's circuits begin to lose their importance
17:48that's good news
17:50quoddington is traveling he's lecturing is unemployed he's living in france
18:18about the fate of SOE's agents.
18:23Vera 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
18:39and now commissioned in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force,
18:43stays in London.
18:50Paris is back in Allied hands,
18:53but the victory came at a huge cost to SOE's agents.
18:59It was understood that the casualty numbers
19:03would be quite high,
19:04particularly 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,
19:23the human toll of this decision comes into focus.
19:29Of the more than 400 SOE agents dispatched to France,
19:35118 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,
20:02a man turns up and he's angry.
20:06He's furious.
20:09Marcel Rousset,
20:10an F Section agent with the codename Leopold,
20:14demands to see anyone in the British Secret Service.
20:22I'm sorry to interrupt,
20:23but do you think you could fetch someone from SOE for me?
20:26Now!
20:27He had been captured by the Gestapo,
20:29and in fact,
20:30it was even his radio that was used by the Gestapo
20:33to send the taunting signals
20:36to SOE headquarters on D-Day.
20:40Hello, I'm Nancy.
20:41How can I help?
20:42It's why you need a chance.
20:43He is angry.
20:45He's absolutely furious
20:47at 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
20:59for 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.
21:10So, Buckmaster...
21:11Rousset says how stupid everyone at F Section had been,
21:16particularly Buckmaster and Vera,
21:18and how they had risked agents' lives.
21:22I would love to meet him based on...
21:24The SD, Sicherheitsdienst,
21:26forced 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
21:37as a warning to SOE,
21:40but they just ignored this
21:42and continue to accept the messages
21:45that came from his radio as genuine.
21:49His interrogation report is explosive
21:53and provides Vera with important leads
21:57to the whereabouts of her missing agents.
22:06At F Section,
22:08Vera receives Rousset's interrogation report.
22:15After his arrest,
22:17he's taken to the SD headquarters in Paris
22:21at 84 Avenue Foch.
22:27The SD is the SS intelligence agency
22:31and worked hand-in-hand with the Gestapo.
22:36Here, Rousset is confronted
22:38with Prosper's wireless operator,
22:41Gilbert Norman, codenamed Butcher.
22:45It was Norman who told the Germans
22:47that Rousset was SOE, wireless operator, Leopold.
22:54And he also tells Rousset
22:56that the Gestapo know everything about SOE
23:00and their activities.
23:06So, Sittal, who was the organiser of that circuit,
23:10and Norman had given up everything
23:12about the Prosper circuit in Paris
23:16in order to try and save his life
23:19and 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
23:33just finding out
23:35that they could have revealed so much
23:37that every time Vera sent a woman over,
23:40she was just basically feeding them
23:42straight into the German prison.
23:46In the Gestapo's cells,
23:49Rousset is held in solitary confinement.
23:53But by tapping on the wall in Morse code,
23:56he manages to communicate with an SOE agent
24:00in the cell next to his.
24:02Rousset learns that a wireless operator
24:05with the codename Madeleine
24:07is 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,
24:24but 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
24:45were 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
25:24and makes his escape.
25:49Vera haunts the F-Section operations room,
25:54waiting for any news on her missing,
25:56women's spies then a report comes in from a member of yvonne basedon's soe circuit
26:11after yvonne and her colleagues had hidden all the equipment that had come in on this daylight
26:15parachute drop they headed back to their headquarters but soon after they arrive
26:25everything changes the germans they're coming what we spotted a patrol of german soldiers
26:34they're heading for us do we have time to move no hide 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
27:24there is literally nobody
27:27in sight they can't find anybody so they leave but they just leave behind one person
27:33he's effectively watching it just in case something happens or somebody arrives
27:37one can only imagine what would be going through the minds of yvonne and her team as they are hiding
27:43holding their breath not moving because they have to be totally quiet and then the plumbing makes a noise
27:58hello is there anybody in there
28:08i have something keep searching
28:46in london vera scours allied intelligence reports searching for any clues to her agent's whereabouts
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
29:39vera remains
29:43she is worried about her agents about the women she sent into the field
29:49she 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
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 honor
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 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 noor 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 noor's training everybody was
32:45saying that she wasn't ready but paris needed a wireless operator and immediately she'd put this
32:52young 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 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
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
34:09regard to her except through me
34:23by january 1945 the allies are making steady gains
34:30and nazi germany is on its knees
34:42but many agents are still missing despite combing through any and all intelligence documents vera's
34:52investigation 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
35:21buckmaster's right-hand man she's right in the center of all of the major decisions but once f section is
35:28over and buckmaster is gone it becomes incredibly difficult to convince anybody that her plight
35:34within soe is worth pursuing particularly john center the head of soe's security division and a commander
35:43in the royal navy
35:46atkins 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
36:15yes sir so that once those forces begin liberating pow camps they will have a register
36:22of all of our missing agents
36:27atkins 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 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
36:58the 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 on a register for our enemies to see
37:17sir the germans are spent this 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 he's not interested in the fate of the
37:43missing 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
38:30next to the name of one of the prisoners is n and n this means nacht und nebel or night
38:38and fog
38:40the nacht und nebel order was decreed by hitler that people who have been involved in espionage
38:47or resistance are 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 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
40:15hitler commits suicide
40:23by the 8th of may the allies accept nazi germany's unconditional surrender the war in europe is over
40:34and the 20th of may
40:591945, 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?
41:49From Euston Station, Vera takes Yvonne Bazden back to her family home in Brockwood Park in London.
42:06Yvonne Bazden.
42:13Yvonne Bazden.
42:18Please, come here.
42:36You look, um, weak. Let me make you something to eat.
43:05What happened after you were captured?
43:09Did you see anyone else? Other agents?
43:17Uh...
43:18Yvonne, I need you to think.
43:27Um, after I was caught, uh, they sent me, uh, east, to a, uh, to a prison, to a place
43:39called Saarbrocken.
43:43Um...
43:44Uh...
43:44There, there, I started seeing some...
43:47Some familiar faces.
43:50Agents.
43:51I'd been in training with.
43:54I saw...
43:57They've got the hold of Baker Street.
44:02I...
44:02I didn't talk to them.
44:04I...
44:04I...
44:07I kept my distance.
44:09You see...
44:11I 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...
44:22I had to keep my distance.
44:23I...
44:24I couldn't let the Nazis...
44:27Know that I was an agent.
44:31It was my only hope of getting out alive.
44:38Uh...
44:39Uh, then...
44:40Then they moved us, um, all to...
44:44A camp, uh, north of Berlin.
44:49Who went with you?
44:54I remember Violette.
44:57A...
44:58A couple of others from...
44:59From F Section.
45:03Violette Szabo.
45:06Yes.
45:09Um...
45:10Violette and...
45:11And the others, we were all, uh...
45:13We were all sent to, um, um, Ravensbrück.
45:16Concentration camp.
45:17It...
45:18It was a camp just for...
45:20Women.
45:23Ravensbrück.
45:26A women's only...
45:28Concentration camp.
45:34Yes.
45:38At this time, very little is widely known about concentration camps.
45:43Very few people have heard about them.
45:45The idea of there being one just for women.
45:47I mean, it's completely horrifying.
45:52One day...
45:55Violette...
45:56And the others just, uh...
45:59Just 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 use them.
46:31While horrific that Vera finds out her agents went to Ravensbrück, the 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.
47:09Vera 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?
47:32Like, would you like to see them?
47:33Like, would you like to see them?
47:36I'll leave it at them too.
47:36Wee!
47:36Go!
47:38Wee!
47:52Wee!
48:00The Red Cross
48:10Transcription by CastingWords
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