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00:07April 1945, the war is entering its brutal final stages.
00:17The Nazis are surrounded as the UK and US advance into Germany from the west
00:26and the Soviets lay siege to Berlin from the east.
00:33As the Allied forces sweep through Europe, liberating the citizens,
00:41they begin to uncover the horrors of Nazi concentration camps.
00:50In London, the Allied advance brings news for Vera Atkins
00:57as one of her lost women spies, Yvonne Bazden arrives back
01:04at Euston railway station, but many of her agents remain missing,
01:10presumed dead, like Violet Sabo, who left her one-year-old child to fight the Nazis,
01:20or headstrong Noor Inayat Khan, who many said was unsuitable to be an agent.
01:26Are you ready?
01:27Yes, Miss Atkins.
01:29Vera begins the hunt to find her agents, dead or alive.
01:37Answer me!
01:38But she can't do it alone.
01:42So she turns to Britain's elite fighting service,
01:49the S.A.S., the S.A.S., and specialist Nazi hunter, Major Bill Barkworth.
02:00The S.A.S.
02:31It's the 28th of April 1945.
02:36The Ravensbrück concentration camp for women in northern Germany, 90 kilometres north of Berlin.
02:45SOE agent Odette Sansom is in solitary confinement.
02:53But the camp is about to be overrun by the Soviet Red Army.
02:59At this point in the war, the Germans are completely on the back foot.
03:02They've got the Russians attacking from one side, the Red Army, and they've got the Americans and the British from
03:07the other side.
03:10Himmler has given the order that all witnesses to the horrors of the camp must be killed.
03:21The man who has come for Odette is Fritz Surin.
03:37Fritz Surin was the commandant of Ravensbrück concentration camp.
03:42It was a women's only camp and Surin had complete control of everything that went on within it.
03:47So the forced labour programs that the women would be sent out into, the roundups for the executions, and also
03:53the medical experiments that were carried out at Ravensbrück.
03:56He would oversee those and have an understanding of what that meant.
04:01Move! Come on!
04:02Odette is about to see daylight for the first time in six months.
04:08But her life hangs in the balance.
04:12Come on!
04:14Come on!
04:16Come on!
04:21Come on!
04:21Surin flees the Soviet liberation of his camp, driving south of Berlin, towards the U.S. army line.
04:33As the Red Army and the Americans get closer to Ravensbrück, the commandant, Surin, panics, because at this point he
04:42knows he is going to get captured by one army or the other, and he's going to make that decision
04:49himself.
04:49He's going to pick a side, and so he goes for the Americans and the British.
04:53This is who he aims for.
04:57Surin takes Odette with him, believing she is the perfect bargaining chip to win him freedom.
05:06When Odette was captured, she gave the surname of her network chief, Churchill, as her own surname, convincing Surin that
05:16she is related to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
05:19Hands up!
05:22But Surin is about to get a nasty shock.
05:32Don't fire!
05:35Identify yourselves!
05:37This is Odette Churchill!
05:39Don't shoot!
05:40Get out!
05:42This is Odette Churchill!
05:44The niece of Winston Churchill!
05:46Don't fire!
05:48Who are you?
05:53My name is Odette Sanson.
05:57I'm a member of the British Special Operations Executive.
06:04This man is a war criminal.
06:13Can you imagine what Surin would have thought, because immediately Odette announces that not only is she not Churchill's niece
06:20or any relation to him, but she's an SOE agent, and she just confesses everything, this key information that he's
06:27been after for ages.
06:27It must have been incredibly frustrating and also humiliating for him.
06:33Odette's final act of humiliation is to steal Surin's bag containing his personalised pistol.
06:41She hands him over to the Americans, watches while he's taken in, takes his bag, which has a pistol and
06:48his other belongings, and hands it over, in London, to Vera Atkins.
06:53It would have been a huge relief to finally get to safety.
06:57It would also be crucial, because she knew about other agents.
07:00She could then give crucial information to Vera Atkins.
07:078th of May, 1945.
07:12The Nazis surrender.
07:17Victory in Europe.
07:24In London, thousands pour into the streets to celebrate, as Churchill announces peace across the continent.
07:34For the SOE, it appears much of their work is done.
07:41But for Vera, her hunt is just beginning.
07:47Odette arrives back in London.
07:49She meets with Vera to debrief her, and to see if she can help track down the lost women spies.
07:57It's so good to have you back.
08:08After they arrested me, I was kept in prison in Paris.
08:19Then the Gestapo came.
08:25Just tell us.
08:30I didn't tell them anything.
08:36They seem to know so much.
08:42About the circuits.
08:44Who was involved, where, when.
08:51And then they took me over the border.
08:53Into Germany.
08:56Karlsruhe.
08:58With other women.
09:02Karlsruhe.
09:05And finally, Ravensbrook.
09:29And finally, Ravensbrook.
09:32Karlsruhe.
09:34Karlsruhe.
09:34You said there were other women.
09:45Odette describes seven female agents that she remembers from Karlsruhe.
10:00It's an important lead for Vera.
10:08Nora Nirkhan was one of Vera's favorite agents.
10:12One of the people she seems to really have cared about.
10:15When she was in training, there was some question mark as to whether or not Nora was
10:18good enough for the job because she seemed to be so kind.
10:22She said she could never lie.
10:23And yet Vera was really the one who gave the final approval and said,
10:27no, you're going to go and she'll be fine and it'll work.
10:36And Vera seems to have had a very guilty conscience, a very sort of deeply felt question as to what
10:43had happened to this delightful young woman who she really had been responsible for sending to France.
10:53It's pretty, but no.
10:58Don't take my word for it though.
11:01Ask the b**** at the prison.
11:04Becca.
11:06Fraulein Becca.
11:09She ran the place.
11:13If anyone knows, she will.
11:21I think Vera's reaction to starting to uncover the stories of these women and to trace them to
11:26Karlsruhe must have come as a real shock to her.
11:33To understand the dehumanizing process that they'd been put through right from their arrest
11:38and now they're in solitary confinement.
11:43These women that she would have last seen on an airfield in England full of life and full of hope
11:47and excitement for their missions suddenly in this horrible world, having experienced some brutal
11:53things already and just starting to unravel their stories and wondering what became of them after
12:00they left this prison at Karlsruhe.
12:06Thanks to Odette, Vera has a major breakthrough in intelligence.
12:11It's important for Vera, not only professionally, but also personally.
12:18In a way, although Vera never had children herself, she does kind of have maternal
12:25qualities here in her investigation.
12:34Vera has the prison in Karlsruhe in southern Germany as the last location for at least seven women.
12:45Vera also knows about the Ravensbruck women's concentration camp situated in north-eastern Germany.
12:54Ravensbruck was a concentration camp just north of Berlin and unlike every other concentration camp,
13:00it was for women. It was particularly horrifying for the sensibilities of people in the 1940s as well,
13:07where women are meant to be kept out of combat, out of war and treated with some level of humanity.
13:12Ravensbruck was a particular horrific site to end up in.
13:20It's from here that three agents, including Yvonne Bazden and Odette Sansom, have come back alive.
13:33Ravensbruck is also the last known location for young mother and widow, Violette Szabo.
13:47But there is one of Vera's agents that has not been spotted at either a prison or a camp,
13:55Nor Inayat Khan.
14:01There's a generally held sense that Nor, amongst the others, might be alive.
14:10And so she realizes, too, that there's a tremendous amount of pressure on her,
14:14that if she's going to find her missing agents, she's going to have to do it fast.
14:20Vera can't travel to Germany and continue her investigations due to her low rank.
14:26So she enlists the help of an army unit who are hunting Nazis across post-war Germany.
14:34A unit that was founded just a few years before.
14:39The S.A.S.
14:54The S.A.S., or Special Air Service, are an elite commando unit founded during the height of the war.
15:03The S.A.S. were formed in the North African desert,
15:06and the concept behind their kind of operations were these fast hit-and-run missions,
15:10and they were deploying in these Willis jeeps, which were very maneuverable and nimble,
15:14and they were heavily armed with mounted machine guns.
15:17And the idea was to carry out these hit-and-run raids, largely targeting Italian and German airfields.
15:25And they were extremely successful in the North Africa campaign.
15:29So in those 18 months or so that they soldiered there,
15:32the S.A.S. had destroyed 387 proven enemy warplane kills.
15:37That's a spectacular achievement.
15:41But in the winter of 1942, Hitler fights back.
15:47His Nazi high command issues the so-called commando order.
15:53What the commando order said was that any parachutist, so any allied parachutist,
15:59that could be S.A.S., it could be commandos, it could be special operations executive agents,
16:03any of those captured behind the lines, whether in uniform or out of uniform,
16:08whether fighting or not fighting, whether trying to surrender or not,
16:12would be kept alive only for as long as it took the Gestapo and the S.S. to interrogate them
16:17and find out what they knew, and then they would be shot out of hand.
16:24In other words, murdered.
16:28And what that meant for the S.A.S. is if you were captured, it was a death sentence.
16:35Despite the order, the S.A.S. continue their raids,
16:39and are a key part of the Allied success in northern France that sees the Nazis defeated.
16:49With the end of the war, S.A.S. Major Bill Barkworth and a team are sent to Germany
16:55to hunt down the Nazis who carried out the commando order and bring them to justice.
17:04Major Eric Bill Barkworth is an extraordinary figure in World War II,
17:08and especially within Special Forces history.
17:11He's eccentric. He's single-minded. He's a maverick. He's a rule-breaker.
17:16He's one of those very, very archetypal individuals who can think the absolute unthinkable.
17:22But the other thing about Barkworth as well,
17:23which is key to how he develops as a character during the war,
17:27is he's got this unshakable moral compass.
17:30His sense of right and wrong is absolutely inflexible.
17:34much more essential.
17:37Barkworth has commandeered a private villa,
17:41the Villa Degler,
17:43in Gargenau near Karlsruhe
17:45on the edge of the Black Forest.
17:51and he is here on a special mission for the SAS on the 12th of August 1944 an SAS team
18:03was dropped
18:04behind enemy lines in the Vosges mountains of Eastern France to hit the Nazis before an
18:11Allied advance but the team were tracked down and 31 soldiers were captured
18:26after months of interrogation the soldiers were taken to the woods stripped and shot
18:38such a loss of life would have a profound effect on everyone in the SAS when you are serving in
18:46a
18:47unit like the SAS in World War two you forge these bonds of brotherhood with your fellow operators
18:53which are extremely extremely powerful and close you read the accounts from people at the time or
18:58you interview veterans as I have and you speak about those kind of relationships they are very
19:03very very special it's the kind of spirit that means you will lay down your life for your fellow
19:10brother-in-arms and that's what so often happens
19:20Barkworth is determined to find those responsible for the deaths of the 31 SAS soldiers
19:30chief among them is Hans Kiefer the head of the SD the Nazi intelligence agency in Paris a man Vera
19:46also
19:47believes may know what happened to her lost women spies
19:54so Vera shares the photos of her agents with Barkworth in the hopes he can help her both Barkworth
20:02and Vera their investigations led them to one name and that was Hans Kiefer he was in charge of the
20:10SD he
20:11was responsible for all of the investigations that the Gestapo and the SD were doing in Paris so he was
20:17responsible for the interrogation of what the agents and what the soldiers of the SAS went through
20:26he was a spider at the center of the web issuing all these orders for interrogating and this is the
20:32man
20:32that they were desperate to find but as the atrocities of Kiefer and other Nazis come to light
20:39people back in the UK begin to ask some difficult questions
20:52Vera receives a letter alerting her to the actions of Violet Sabo's father Charles Bushell
21:03Violet has a child called Tanya and Bushell wants to know when the baby's mother will return
21:34and giving interviews to the newspapers about his missing
21:42daughter
21:43for Vera and the SOE this could be a major problem
21:49Vera is in a very difficult situation because suddenly the war's over and these young women
21:56who've gone off to serve somewhere and their families don't know anything about what they
21:59really did in the SOE aren't coming home
22:07Violet Sabo's father who's been left with her infant daughter is starting to ask questions
22:12is starting to push for answers what's happened to my daughter why hasn't she come home and there
22:17are others starting to step forward and say listen you know we've heard nothing we don't know where
22:21they were serving we don't know what part of the world they've ended up in we don't know why
22:24they're not home and so there starts to become this pressure from family members and friends and
22:29other acquaintances of these young women who've just suddenly vanished and Vera has another problem
22:42head of SOE F section Morris Buckmaster has returned to his civilian role of public relations manager at the Ford
22:52Motor Company
22:54he is replaced by new broom
22:56Vera
22:59Captain Norman Mott
23:01please have a seat
23:03a man who comes from the SOE security section
23:08and whose main interest is in keeping things secret
23:13Mott doesn't help Vera very much
23:16he doesn't see this as the sort of passionate necessity that Vera sees it as
23:20and she's now started to get information about the camps
23:27and she's pushing to see if she can get a chance to have some sort of contact or
23:33interrogate the heads of these camps where her agents might have ended up
23:39and yet she's given the cold shoulder she's really effectively told
23:43that this isn't of interest to the government this is not of interest to her former colleagues
23:48and would she please just leave it alone
23:56so it's really tense for Vera she doesn't know how much power she will have to carry on this investigation
24:02she needs to find out if there are agents surviving in these camps
24:05she has to find them before they are dead or gone
24:08or any evidence of them is wiped out
24:11so the timing is crucial and she is basically racing against the clock
24:17Vera has to fight to convince Mott and the war office
24:21to allow her to go to Germany and speed up the hunt for her missing spies
24:29letters from agents relatives asking difficult questions puts pressure on the home office
24:38and after months of lobbying Vera gets her answer
24:44Vera will be given the rank of flight officer in the women's auxiliary air force
24:50allowing her to travel to Germany
24:56but she is told that she has just four days to demonstrate she can get results
25:14December 1945
25:19Vera's destination is Berlin
25:23a capital city in ruins
25:28a city conquered by the Soviet Union
25:34in among the destruction of Germany
25:36Vera has just a few days
25:38to prove her worth
25:40to the war office
25:46Vera's first mission
25:47is to identify the grave
25:49of F-Section's male agent
25:51Clement Marc Jumeau
25:53who is believed to have died of tuberculosis
25:56at a hospital north of Berlin
25:59many women were sent to Germany post-war
26:01but mostly in secretarial roles
26:03or in a way to assist with the men of the armed forces
26:07who were trying to reconcile Germany
26:10but Vera was there in a totally different capacity
26:12she had a mission that she wanted to fulfill
26:20and although she was probably very nervous and had a sense of trepidation
26:24she really had to mask that and to go forward with an air of confidence
26:28and to prove that she was the right person to uncover the stories of the missing agents
26:34but Vera has a problem
26:36Jumeau's grave is most likely in Soviet-controlled Germany
26:41north of Berlin
26:43after the fall of Germany
26:45the country is split into zones
26:47under control of the US
26:49the UK
26:49France
26:50and the Soviet Union
26:56at a checkpoint in Buch
26:58Vera is stopped by a Soviet sentry
27:01and her progress is halted
27:18Vera is blocked
27:19from entering the Soviet zone
27:26if Vera fails here
27:28she knows there is no chance
27:30that Mott and the war office
27:31would allow her to continue her investigations
27:36but then
27:37Vera addresses the sentry
27:39in Russian
27:43something the sentry
27:44would not have been expecting
27:48they come to a Russian checkpoint
27:50and she speaks in Russian
27:51and it must have been a real shock
27:53because for him
27:54she was a member of the WAF
27:56you know
27:57she was a lady in a blue uniform
27:59and suddenly she's speaking Russian
28:01which would have been something
28:02he would have been completely unprepared for
28:06Vera
28:06somehow
28:07not only speaks Russian
28:11but she does so
28:12with a level of fluency
28:13that the sentry
28:14lets them through
28:17Vera
28:18Vera is able to continue her journey
28:20into the Soviet zone
28:21thanks to her unexpected ability
28:24to speak Russian
28:35at the hospital
28:37Vera questions
28:38the staff
28:44and they direct her
28:45to the location
28:46of Jumot's grave
28:51within the first day
28:52of her time
28:53in Germany
28:54Vera proves
28:55to the war office
28:56and to Mott
28:57that her investigations
28:59get results
29:02now she can move on
29:03to the main reason
29:04for her journey
29:06Ravensbrück
29:16Ravensbrück
29:17the women's camp
29:2590 kilometers north
29:27of Berlin
29:32Ravensbrück
29:33Ravensbrück
29:33is a hideous
29:34camp
29:35which was set up
29:36specifically
29:37to hold women
29:38and tens of thousands
29:40of women
29:41died there
29:41I think over 50,000
29:43women were imprisoned there
29:48Ravensbrück
29:49is of particular interest
29:50to Vera
29:51because she
29:52interviewed Odette
29:53who'd come out
29:54of Ravensbrück
29:55who had told her
29:56about her agents
29:57who were there
29:58so Ravensbrück
29:59seems to be
29:59the place
30:00the concentration camp
30:02where a lot
30:02of her agents
30:03disappeared
30:05Vera is here
30:06to interrogate
30:08the commandant
30:08Fritz Soeren
30:10Ravensbrück camp
30:11is the camp
30:12which Odette
30:13left alive
30:14it is also
30:16the last known
30:16location
30:17of Vera's
30:18missing agent
30:19Violette Sabo
30:20along with two others
30:22Lillian Rolf
30:23and Denise Block
30:26Soeren holds the key
30:28to not just one
30:29but possibly
30:30the lives of three
30:31of her agents
30:34the pressure
30:35is on
30:38Vera's not
30:39particularly experienced
30:41yet at interrogations
30:43and she knows
30:44he has information
30:47he knows everything
30:48that went on
30:49in the camp
30:49and if there were
30:50special prisoners
30:52considered to be agents
30:53he would have known
30:59how many English women
31:01were at the camp
31:06there were no
31:07English women
31:08at the camp
31:11Odette is English
31:14she was a special
31:15prisoner
31:16for whom I had
31:18special responsibilities
31:20because we thought
31:21she was related
31:22to Churchill
31:25so the other
31:26English women
31:28how many
31:29were there
31:32I already told you
31:34there were
31:36no others
31:38I have testimony
31:40that there were
31:48answer me
31:52I have nothing
31:54else to say
32:00Surin offers
32:01Vera
32:02nothing
32:12without any
32:14new evidence
32:14Vera leaves
32:16Ravensbrück
32:16and returns
32:17to London
32:18empty-handed
32:29back in London
32:30Vera gets some
32:31news
32:32that could prevent
32:32her from ever
32:33finding her agents
32:35have a read please
32:40she is informed
32:42that F section
32:43is to be closed
32:44down
32:45permanently
32:48Norman
32:49tells Vera
32:50that she's
32:51to wind down
32:52she's to
32:52close the office
32:53and really
32:54nobody's very
32:55interested in
32:55what's happening
32:56to these agents
32:57of hers
33:02there is no
33:03sense that
33:04there should be
33:05accounts from
33:06surviving agents
33:07such as what
33:08we see from
33:09other military
33:09intelligence
33:10departments
33:11so there's
33:12no accountability
33:13there's no
33:14learning from
33:15the mistakes
33:16of the past
33:18SOE was so
33:19embarrassed by
33:20some of its
33:20mistakes
33:21that it was
33:22just going to
33:23hush everything
33:23up and close
33:24it down
33:25as quickly
33:25as possible
33:28if F section
33:29is shut down
33:30it would see
33:31Vera without
33:32the mandate
33:33to find
33:33her lost
33:34women spies
33:36they would
33:37remain
33:37missing
33:38presumed
33:39dead
33:41but for Vera
33:42this wasn't
33:43acceptable
33:43it wasn't
33:44fair
33:45it wasn't
33:45fair on
33:45them
33:46it wasn't
33:46fair on
33:46their families
33:47and so she
33:48was determined
33:49to find out
33:49what had
33:50happened
33:50particularly
33:51to the
33:52young women
33:52agents
33:53that she
33:53had personally
33:54sent to
34:02France
34:03what Vera
34:05needs
34:05is new
34:06evidence
34:07that will
34:07shock her
34:08bosses
34:08into letting
34:09her continue
34:21Vera receives
34:22word
34:23from SAS
34:24Major
34:24Barkworth
34:25about evidence
34:26from a secret
34:27concentration
34:27camp
34:30a camp
34:31that has been
34:32liberated
34:32and filmed
34:33by US
34:34forces
34:37known as
34:39Natzweiler
34:39Strutof
34:40the camp
34:41is hidden
34:41in the
34:42Vosges
34:42mountains
34:42of eastern
34:43France
34:44close to
34:45the German
34:45border
34:52it is
34:53the only
34:53camp
34:54the Nazis
34:54built
34:55in France
34:57a camp
34:58built
34:59to destroy
35:00the French
35:00resistance
35:05on the
35:067th of
35:06December
35:061941
35:07Hitler
35:09passes
35:09an order
35:10codenamed
35:11Night
35:11and Fog
35:13this secret
35:15order means
35:16anyone believed
35:17to be endangering
35:18German security
35:19can be abducted
35:20at night
35:21and without trial
35:22taken to
35:23Natzweiler
35:25people would be
35:27according to the
35:28Nazi order
35:29turned into
35:30mist
35:33it's a way
35:34of punishing
35:35people
35:35that was
35:36more feared
35:37than any
35:37other
35:41but it's
35:42what Barkworth
35:43includes next
35:44in his report
35:44that has the
35:46most shocking
35:46impact
35:47on Vera's
35:48hunt
35:48for her
35:49lost
35:49women
35:50spies
36:01Vera reads
36:02Barkworth's
36:03interrogation
36:04report
36:04of a
36:05former
36:05prisoner
36:06at
36:06Natzweiler
36:07Franz
36:08Berg
36:28tells
36:29Barkworth
36:29he worked
36:30in the
36:31prematorium
36:31as a
36:32stoker
36:34one day
36:35in July
36:361944
36:37Berg
36:38and the
36:38other
36:39stokers
36:39are told
36:40to expect
36:40some
36:41English
36:41women
36:45from his
36:46crematorium
36:47cell
36:47he witnesses
36:49their arrival
36:55Franz gives
36:57a detailed
36:58deposition
36:58he describes
37:00these
37:00English
37:01women
37:01who come
37:02and on
37:02the night
37:03he says
37:04that the
37:05head of
37:05the crematorium
37:06has told
37:07him to
37:07light the
37:07fires
37:08and take
37:09it to
37:09the hottest
37:09point
37:10by 9.30
37:11pm
37:12they are
37:13hearing
37:13that these
37:14girls are
37:14going to
37:14be killed
37:15by lethal
37:16injection
37:20they see
37:21three women
37:22being dragged
37:23these are
37:23the English
37:24women
37:24two are
37:25unconscious
37:25one of them
37:26seems to be
37:26moving
37:27there's groans
37:27and grunts
37:28and one even
37:29speaks
37:29and says
37:30purkwa
37:32they are then
37:33dragged into
37:33the crematorium
37:34they can't see
37:35anymore
37:35and they say
37:36later that
37:36one of the
37:37women was
37:38alive and
37:38had scratched
37:39one of the
37:40men who
37:40had come
37:42then they
37:42heard the
37:42crematorium
37:43doors being
37:43shut and
37:45they knew
37:45it was all
37:45being fired
37:46up
37:49after that
37:50there's
37:50silence
37:54it's
37:55horror
37:56at what
37:56these girls
37:57would have
37:57gone through
37:58there is
37:58no way
37:59when they
38:00prepared them
38:00for their
38:00training
38:01for the
38:02torture
38:02that might
38:03lie ahead
38:03they would
38:04have
38:04envisaged
38:05something
38:05like this
38:10after being
38:10shown
38:11Vera's
38:11photographs
38:12of her
38:12missing
38:13spies
38:14burg
38:15says
38:15that he
38:15believes
38:16one of
38:16the women
38:16brought
38:17to the
38:17crematorium
38:19is
38:20Noor
38:20Inayat
38:21Khan
38:24Vera
38:25would have
38:25been
38:26absolutely
38:26horrified
38:27and the
38:28thought
38:28that this
38:28could have
38:28been
38:29Noor
38:29as well
38:29I mean
38:30horrified
38:30for all
38:31the
38:31girls
38:35and
38:35the fact
38:36that
38:36maybe
38:37this is
38:37what
38:38happened
38:38to
38:38Noor
38:38is
38:38something
38:39that
38:39really
38:39haunted
38:39her
38:52armed
38:53with
38:53Berg's
38:53testimony
38:54from
38:54Natzweiler
38:55Vera
38:56heads
38:57to
38:57her
38:57superiors
38:59she
39:00will
39:00not
39:01give
39:01up
39:01on
39:02her
39:02women
39:11Berg's
39:12testimony
39:12makes
39:13disturbing
39:13reading
39:14for the
39:14British
39:15security
39:15services
39:23Whitehall
39:24would be
39:24deeply
39:24troubled
39:25by the
39:25evidence
39:26that
39:26Vera
39:27is
39:27actually
39:27gaining
39:28of the
39:28sheer
39:29horror
39:29of the
39:30concentration
39:30camps
39:31because
39:31let's
39:31not
39:31forget
39:32that
39:33the
39:33public
39:33don't
39:34know
39:34that
39:35women
39:35were
39:36sent
39:36behind
39:36enemy
39:37lines
39:39Whitehall
39:39would
39:40not
39:40want
39:40this
39:41highly
39:41secret
39:42organisation
39:42the
39:43SOE
39:43knowledge
39:44of it
39:44to
39:44come
39:45out
39:45but
39:46even
39:46more
39:46sensitive
39:47and
39:48potentially
39:49a public
39:49outcry
39:50to hear
39:51that
39:51women
39:51had been
39:52dropped
39:52into
39:53these
39:53dangerous
39:54areas
39:54and that
39:55some
39:55of them
39:56hadn't
39:56come
39:56back
39:56and had
39:57been
39:57horrifically
39:57tortured
40:00after
40:00seeing
40:01Berg's
40:01testimony
40:02MI6
40:03agreed
40:03to
40:04fund
40:04Vera
40:04for
40:05another
40:05three
40:05months
40:06of
40:06investigations
40:07in
40:08the
40:08hope
40:08that
40:08Vera
40:09can
40:09keep
40:09the
40:09story
40:10of
40:10the
40:10lost
40:10women
40:10spies
40:11out
40:12of
40:12the
40:12public
40:13eye
40:16Vera
40:17heads
40:17back
40:18to
40:18Germany
40:41Vera
40:42is
40:42assigned
40:42to
40:43the
40:43war
40:43crimes
40:43unit
40:44at
40:44the
40:44British
40:44Army
40:45headquarters
40:45in
40:46Germany
40:48the
40:48war
40:48crimes
40:49unit
40:49was
40:49based
40:49at
40:50Bad
40:50Ornhausen
40:51which
40:51was
40:51the
40:51headquarters
40:52of
40:53the
40:53British
40:53Army
40:54on
40:54the
40:54Rhine
40:54so
40:55it
40:55was
40:55a
40:55very
40:56important
40:56place
40:57and
40:58the
40:58war
40:58crimes
40:58unit
40:58was
40:59really
40:59trying
40:59to
40:59find
41:00high
41:00ranking
41:01Nazis
41:01people
41:02who
41:02would
41:02have
41:02been
41:02involved
41:03in
41:04what
41:04we
41:04would
41:04call
41:04war
41:04crimes
41:05so
41:05with
41:06executions
41:07with
41:07maltreatment
41:08of prisoners
41:09with
41:09the
41:09concentration
41:10camp
41:10system
41:11in
41:11general
41:11and
41:12the
41:12idea
41:13would
41:13not
41:13only
41:13be
41:13to
41:13find
41:14these
41:14officers
41:15but
41:15also
41:16to
41:16find
41:16evidence
41:17about
41:17crimes
41:18against
41:18humanity
41:19that
41:19they
41:19had
41:19committed
41:20so
41:20various
41:21murders
41:22or
41:23procedures
41:24that
41:24they
41:24had
41:25followed
41:25that
41:26were
41:26against
41:26the
41:27Geneva
41:27Convention
41:30Vera
41:31will support
41:31the British
41:32judges
41:32in their
41:33evidence
41:33gathering
41:40Vera's
41:40main
41:40role
41:41within
41:41the
41:41war
41:41crimes
41:41unit
41:42was to
41:42trace
41:42the
41:43missing
41:43SOE
41:44agents
41:44and
41:45her
41:45job
41:45would
41:45be
41:45to
41:46trace
41:47them
41:47as
41:47best
41:47she
41:48could
41:48this
41:48was
41:48going
41:48to
41:49be
41:49exceptionally
41:49difficult
41:50for
41:50her
41:50as
41:51the
41:51prisoners
41:51were
41:52classified
41:52as
41:53night
41:53and
41:53night
41:53and
41:54fog
41:54so
41:55most
41:55records
41:55would
41:56technically
41:56have
41:57disappeared
41:57if
41:58they'd
41:58ever
41:58been
41:58kept
41:58in
41:58the
41:59first
41:59place
41:59but
42:00her
42:00job
42:00was
42:01to
42:01trace
42:01them
42:01through
42:02the
42:02various
42:02prison
42:02systems
42:03that
42:03they'd
42:03been
42:03through
42:04had
42:04they'd
42:05gone
42:05into
42:05camps
42:05and
42:06not
42:06only
42:06to
42:07trace
42:07them
42:07but
42:08to
42:08trace
42:08the
42:08people
42:08responsible
42:09for
42:09their
42:09imprisonment
42:10and
42:11murders
42:11if
42:12that
42:12was
42:12going
42:12to
42:12be
42:13the
42:13case
42:16Vera
42:17begins
42:17by
42:18tracing
42:18back
42:18her
42:19agent's
42:19whereabouts
42:19before
42:20they get
42:21to
42:21the
42:21camp
42:22at
42:22Natsweiler
42:24and
42:25her
42:25attention
42:25turns
42:26to
42:26a
42:26witness
42:27who
42:27could
42:28hold
42:28the
42:28key
42:29it's
42:30a
42:30name
42:30given
42:31to
42:31Vera
42:31by
42:32Odette
42:32Sansom
42:33it
42:34is
42:34the
42:34chief
42:34warder
42:35of
42:35Karlsruhe
42:36prison
42:37Fräulein
42:38Becker
42:43Vera
42:44leaves
42:45the
42:45war
42:45crimes
42:46office
42:46headed
42:47for
42:47Karlsruhe
42:48prison
42:48in
42:49the
42:49hope
42:49that
42:49finding
42:50Becker
42:50might
42:51give
42:51her
42:51the
42:51information
42:52she
42:53needs
42:56Fräulein
42:57Becker
42:57would
42:57have
42:57been
42:58really
42:58important
42:58for
42:58Vera
42:59to
42:59get
42:59her
42:59hands
43:00on
43:00she'd
43:00been
43:00identified
43:01in
43:01one
43:01of
43:01the
43:01affidavits
43:02of
43:02the
43:02surviving
43:03agents
43:03anyway
43:04and
43:04Vera
43:05needed
43:05to
43:05go
43:06out
43:06and
43:06find
43:06her
43:07because
43:07as
43:08the
43:08chief
43:08wardress
43:08she
43:09would
43:09have
43:09received
43:09all
43:10new
43:10prisoners
43:10coming
43:11into
43:11Karlsruhe
43:12she would
43:12have
43:13met
43:13them
43:13personally
43:13taken
43:14away
43:14their
43:15personal
43:15effects
43:15made
43:16a
43:16record
43:17of
43:17what
43:17they
43:17were
43:17but
43:18she
43:18would
43:18have
43:18also
43:18recorded
43:19their
43:19names
43:20so
43:20be
43:20they
43:21real
43:21names
43:22or
43:22their
43:22aliases
43:23she
43:23would
43:24have
43:24recorded
43:24the
43:24names
43:24of
43:25the
43:25SOE
43:25women
43:25going
43:26into
43:26that
43:26prison
43:34on
43:35arrival
43:35at
43:35the
43:36prison
43:36Vera
43:37discovers
43:37that
43:38Fräulein
43:38Becker
43:39hasn't
43:39even
43:40left
43:40her
43:40post
43:42as
43:42chief
43:43warder
43:45Vera
43:46can
43:46now
43:47begin
43:47her
43:48questioning
43:52Karlsruhe
43:53was
43:53technically
43:54a
43:54civilian
43:55prison
43:55so
43:56it
43:56wasn't
43:56really
43:56used
43:57for
43:57political
43:57prisoners
43:58which
43:58arguably
43:58the
43:59SOE
43:59agents
44:00were
44:00when
44:01they
44:01arrived
44:02at
44:02Karlsruhe
44:02they
44:03were
44:03put
44:04into
44:04solitary
44:04confinement
44:09food
44:10would
44:10have
44:10been
44:10pretty
44:11grim
44:11and
44:12very
44:12scarce
44:13they
44:13would
44:13have
44:13only
44:13had
44:14the
44:14clothes
44:14they
44:14were
44:14standing
44:15up
44:15in
44:15and
44:16we
44:16know
44:16that
44:16the
44:16cells
44:17were
44:17quite
44:17sparse
44:18a
44:18single
44:18bed
44:19maybe
44:19a
44:19bucket
44:19for
44:20a
44:20toilet
44:20so
44:21it
44:21was
44:21a
44:21very
44:22grim
44:22place
44:26I
44:27didn't
44:27want
44:27them
44:27here
44:28this
44:28is
44:29a
44:29regular
44:29prison
44:29not
44:29for
44:30politicals
44:30like
44:30them
44:31they
44:32should
44:32never
44:32have
44:32been
44:43here
44:44them
45:07Yes.
45:12All of them.
45:16And they all left in July 1944?
45:21No.
45:23The one you mentioned, Adette.
45:26She left then.
45:27The others, it was later in the year.
45:31So these seven in the photographs, they didn't leave in July?
45:36That's what I said. They left later.
45:41I need to see your records. Now, please.
45:44We don't have any.
45:47I can't imagine that.
45:50The French.
45:52When they came, they destroyed everything.
45:54Smashed it all up.
45:57All gone.
46:08Thank you, Fraulein Becker.
46:11I'm sure I'll see you again soon.
46:17Vera doesn't have the written records she needs as evidence.
46:21But she does have something more important.
46:25Becker's testimony directly contradicts the evidence of the crematorium stoker at Natzweiler, France Berg.
46:34Berg stated that four women are killed at the Natzweiler camp in July 1944.
46:40But Becker claims that, including Nor, seven of Vera's lost women spies are still in Karlsruher prison later than July
46:501944.
46:51So those women could not have been the ones killed at Natzweiler.
46:57Vera already has an eyewitness testimony from Natzweiler saying that Nor is dead.
47:03And now she has another eyewitness testimony saying, no, that is not true.
47:06She is here.
47:07She needs some sort of corroborating evidence to prove where Nor is one way or the other.
47:15Vera leaves Becker and Karlsruher with the chance that some of her lost women spies could still be alive.
47:37?
47:37?
47:39?
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