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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.
02:08Don't slip her back by, too.
02:12Don't slip it to the Nazis at the Nazis.
02:15Don't slip it to the Nazis.
02:15Don't slip it to the Nazis at the Nazis.
02:20Don't slip it to the Nazis.
02:25Let's stop it...
02:25Make sure it's a dead man.
02:26Evolve witchcraft's death?
02:31it's the 28th of april 1945 the ravensbruck concentration camp for women in northern
02:40germany 90 kilometers north of berlin
02:45soe agent odette sansam is in solitary confinement
02:53but the camp is about to be overrun by the soviet red army at this point in the war the
03:01germans are
03:01completely on the back foot they've got the russians attacking from one side the red army
03:05and they've got the americans and the british from the other side himmler has given the order
03:12that all witnesses to the horrors of the camp must be killed
03:21the man who has come for odette is fritz suren get up
03:29move yes up up up yes out out
03:37fritz suren was the commandant of ravensbruck concentration camp it was a women's only camp
03:43and suren had complete control of everything that went on within it so the forced labor programs
03:48that the women would be sent out into the roundups for the executions and also the medical experiments
03:55that were carried out at ravensbruck he would oversee those and have an understanding of what that meant
04:03odette is about to see daylight for the first time in six months
04:07it's about to see daylight for the first time in six months
04:08but her life hangs in the balance
04:21suren flees the soviet liberation of his camp driving south of berlin
04:28towards the u.s army line
04:33as the red army and the americans get closer to ravensbruck the commandant suren panics because
04:41at this point he knows he is going to get captured by one army or the other and he's
04:47going to make that decision himself he's going to pick a side and so he goes for the americans
04:52and the british this is who he aims for
04:56suren 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
05:11churchill as her own surname convincing suren that she is related to british prime minister
05:18winston churchill
05:22but suren is about to get a nasty shock
05:32don't fire
05:35identify yourselves this is a dead churchill don't shoot get out
05:43this is the dead churchill the niece of winston churchill
05:47don't fire who are you
05:53my name is odette samson
05:57i'm a member of the british special operations executive
06:04this man is a war criminal
06:13can you imagine what zero would have thought because immediately a debt announces
06:17that not only is she not churchill's niece or any relation to him but she's an soe agent and she
06:24just
06:24confesses everything this key information that he's been after for ages it must have been incredibly
06:29frustrating and also humiliating for him
06:33odette's final act of humiliation
06:36is to steal suren's bag containing his personalized pistol
06:42she hands him over to the americans watches while he's taken in takes his bag
06:46which has a pistol and his other belongings and hands it over in london to vera atkins
06:53it would have been a huge relief to finally get to safety it would also be crucial because
06:58she knew about other agents she could then give crucial information to vera atkins
07:078th of may 1945
07:11the nazis surrender
07:18victory in europe
07:24in london thousands pour into the streets to celebrate
07:29as 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 she meets with vera to debrief her and to see if she can help track
07:54down
07:54the lost women's spies
07:57it's so good to have you back
08:01thank you
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
08:54into germany
08:56karlsruhe
08:58with other women
09:02karlsruhe
09:02and finally ravensbruck
09:34you said there were other women
09:37you said there were other women
09:37you said there were other women
09:45odette describes seven female agents
09:48that she remembers from karlsruhe
09:58thank you
10:00it's an important lead for vera
10:09i was one of the people she seems to really have cared about
10:14when 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 she said she could never lie
10:23and yet vera was really the one who gave the final approval and said no you're going to go and
10:28she'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
10:49her
10:53pretty
10:54pretty
10:55but no
10:58don't take my word for it though
11:02ask the
11:02the prison
11:04becca
11:06frulein becca
11:09she ran the place
11:13if anyone knows she will
11:21i think
11:21i think vera's reaction to starting to uncover the stories of these women and to trace them to karlsruhe must
11:27have come as a real shock to her
11:33to understand the dehumanizing process that they'd been put through right from their arrest and 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 things already
11:55and just starting to unravel their stories and wondering what became of them after they left this prison at karlsruhe
12:05thanks to odette vera has a major breakthrough in intelligence
12:11it's important for vera not only professionally but also personally
12:19in a way although vera never had children herself she does
12:23kind of have maternal qualities here in her investigation
12:34in her investigation
12:35vera 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 northeastern germany
12:54ravensbruck was a concentration camp just north of berlin and unlike every other concentration camp it
13:00was 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 basden
13:24and odette sansom and odette sansom have come back alive
13:33ravensbruck is also the last known location for young mother and widow violette sabo
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
14:27so 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 the sas
14:55the sas or special air service are an elite commando unit founded during the height of the war
15:03the sas were formed in the north african desert and the concept behind their kind of operations
15:08were these fast hit and run missions and they were deploying in these willis jeeps which were very
15:13maneuverable and nimble and they were heavily armed with mounted machine guns and the idea was to
15:18carry out these hit and run raids largely targeting italian and german airfields
15:25and they were extremely successful in the north africa campaign so in those 18 months or so that
15:31they soldiered there the sas had destroyed 387 proven enemy war plane kills that's spectacular achievement
15:41but in the winter of 1942 hitler fights back his nazi high command issues the so-called commando order
15:53what the commander order said was that any parachutist so any allied parachutist that could
15:59be sas it could give commandos it could be special operations executive agents any of those captured
16:04behind the lines whether in uniform or out of uniform whether fighting or not fighting
16:10whether trying to surrender or not would be kept alive only for as long as it took the gestapo
16:15and the ss to interrogate them and find out what they knew and then they would be shot out of
16:21hand
16:24in other words murdered
16:28and what that meant for the sas is if you were captured it was a death sentence
16:35despite the order the sas continue their raids and are a key part of the allied success
16:42in northern france that sees the nazis defeated
16:49with the end of the war sas major bill barkworth and a team are sent to germany to hunt down
16:56the
16:56nazis who carried out the commando order and bring them to justice
17:04major eric bill barkworth is an extraordinary figure in world war ii and especially within special
17:09forces history he's eccentric he's single-minded he's a maverick he's a rule breaker he's one of
17:17those very very archetypal individuals who can think the absolute unthinkable but the other thing
17:22about barkworth as well which is key to how he develops as a character during the war is he's got
17:27this unshakable moral compass his sense of right and wrong is absolutely inflexible
17:45and he is here on a special mission for the sas
17:55and he is here on a special mission for the sas
18:04the soldiers dropped behind enemy lines in the vosges mountains of eastern france to hit the nazis
18:10before an allied advance
18:14but the team were tracked down
18:17and 31 soldiers were captured
18:26after months of interrogation
18:30the 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
18:44when you are serving in a unit like the sas in world war ii you forge these bonds of brotherhood
18:51with your fellow operators which are extremely extremely powerful and close if you read the
18:57accounts from people at the time or you interview veterans as i have and you speak about those kind
19:02of relationships they are very very very special it's the kind of spirit that means you will lay
19:08down your life for your fellow brother 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
19:40the nazi intelligence agency in paris a man vera also believes may know what happened to her lost women
19:50in spies so vera shares the photos of her agents with barkworth in the hopes he can help her
20:01both barkworth and vera their investigations led them to one name and that was hans kiefer
20:09he was in charge of the sd he was responsible for all of the investigations that the gestapo and
20:15sd were doing in paris so he was responsible for the interrogation of what the agents and what the
20:21soldiers 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 that 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 violette sabo's father charles bushel
21:03violette has a child called tanya and bushel wants to know when the baby's mother will return
21:09and giving interviews to the newspapers
21:38about his missing daughter
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
22:06the violette 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
22:16and there are others starting to step forward and say listen you know we've heard nothing we
22:20don't know where they were serving we don't know what part of the world they've ended up in we
22:24don't know why they're not home and so there starts to become this pressure from family members
22:28and friends and other acquaintances of these young women who've just suddenly vanished
22:35and vera has another problem
22:38she has a new boss
22:43head of soe f section morris buckmaster has returned to his civilian role
22:49of public relations manager at the ford motor company he is replaced by new broom
22:59captain norman mott please have a seat a man who comes from the soe security section
23:08and whose main interest is in keeping things secret
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
24:01investigation she needs to find out if there are agents surviving in these camps she has to find
24:07them before they are dead or gone or any evidence of them is wiped out so the timing is crucial
24:13and she is basically racing against the clock vera 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
24:45vera will be given the rank of flight officer in the women's auxiliary air force allowing her to travel to
24:53germany
24:56but she is told that she has just four days to demonstrate she can get results
25:15december 1945
25:19vera's destination is berlin a capital city in ruins
25:28a city conquered by the soviet union
25:34in among the destruction of germany vera has just a few days to prove her worth to the war office
25:46the first mission is to identify the grave of f section's male agent clement mark jumeau who is
25:54believed to have died of tuberculosis at a hospital north of berlin many women were sent to germany post-war
26:01but mostly in secretarial roles or in a way to assist with the men of the armed forces who were
26:08trying to
26:08reconcile germany but vera was there in a totally different capacity she 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 and to prove that she
26:31was the
26:31right person to uncover the stories of the missing agents but vera has a problem jumeau's grave is most
26:39likely in soviet-controlled germany north of berlin after the fall of germany the country is split into
26:51um
26:57at a checkpoint in buk vera is stopped by a soviet century and her progress is halted
27:18Vera is blocked from entering the Soviet zone.
27:26If Vera fails here, she knows there is no chance that Mott and the war office
27:31will allow her to continue her investigations.
27:36But then Vera addresses the sentry in Russian,
27:43something the sentry would not have been expecting.
27:48They come to a Russian checkpoint and she speaks in Russian
27:51and it must have been a real shock because for him she was a member of the WAF,
27:56you know, she was a lady in a blue uniform
27:59and suddenly she's speaking Russian,
28:01which would have been something he would have been completely unprepared for.
28:06Vera somehow not only speaks Russian,
28:11but she does so with a level of fluency that the sentry lets them through.
28:18Vera is able to continue her journey into the Soviet zone
28:21thanks to her unexpected ability to speak Russian.
28:35At the hospital, Vera questions the staff.
28:44and they direct her to the location of Jumot's grave.
28:51Within the first day of her time in Germany,
28:54Vera proves to the war office and to Mott
28:57that her investigations get results.
29:01Now she can move on to the main reason for her journey,
29:06RavensbrĂĽck.
29:16RavensbrĂĽck.
29:17RavensbrĂĽck.
29:20The women's camp.
29:2590 kilometres north of Berlin.
29:32RavensbrĂĽck is a hideous camp,
29:35which was set up specifically to hold women.
29:39And tens of thousands of women died there.
29:42I think over 50,000 women were imprisoned there.
29:49RavensbrĂĽck is of particular interest to Vera
29:51because she interviewed Odette,
29:53who'd come out of RavensbrĂĽck,
29:55who had told her about her agents who were there.
29:58So RavensbrĂĽck seems to be the place,
30:01the concentration camp,
30:02where a lot of her agents disappeared.
30:05Vera is here to interrogate the commandant,
30:09Fritz Soeren.
30:10RavensbrĂĽck camp is the camp which Odette left alive.
30:15It is also the last known location
30:17of Vera's missing agent,
30:20Violette Sabo,
30:21along with two others,
30:22Lillian Rolfe and Denise Bloch.
30:26Soeren holds the key to not just one,
30:29but possibly the lives of three of her agents.
30:34The pressure is on.
30:38Vera's not particularly experienced yet at interrogations,
30:42and she knows he has information.
30:47He knows everything that went on in the camp,
30:49and if there were special prisoners considered to be agents,
30:53he would have known.
30:59How many English women were at the camp?
31:06There were no English women at the camp.
31:11Odette is English.
31:14She was a special prisoner,
31:17for whom I had special responsibilities,
31:20because we thought she was related to Churchill.
31:25So the other English women,
31:28how many were there?
31:32I already told you,
31:35there were no others.
31:37I have testimony that there were.
31:48Answer me!
31:52I have nothing else to say.
32:00Soeren offers Vera nothing.
32:12Without any new evidence,
32:15Vera leaves RavensbrĂĽck
32:16and returns to London empty-handed.
32:29Back in London,
32:31Vera gets some news
32:32that could prevent her
32:33from ever finding her agents.
32:35Have a read, please.
32:40She is informed that F Section
32:43is to be closed down.
32:45Permanently.
32:48Norman Morton tells Vera
32:50that she's to wind down,
32:52she's to close the office,
32:53and really nobody's very interested
32:55in what's happening to these agents of hers.
33:02There is no sense
33:04that there should be accounts
33:06from surviving agents,
33:08which is what we see
33:08from other military intelligence departments.
33:11So there's no accountability,
33:13there's no learning
33:15from the mistakes of the past.
33:18SOE was so embarrassed
33:20by some of its mistakes
33:21that it was just going to
33:23hush everything up
33:24and close it down
33:25as quickly as possible.
33:28If F Section is shut down,
33:30it would see Vera
33:32without the mandate
33:33to find her lost women spies.
33:36They would remain missing,
33:39presumed dead.
33:41But for Vera,
33:42this wasn't acceptable.
33:43It wasn't fair.
33:45It wasn't fair on them.
33:46It wasn't fair on their families.
33:47And so she was determined
33:49to find out what had happened,
33:51particularly to the young women agents
33:53that she had personally sent to France.
34:03What Vera needs
34:05is new evidence
34:07that will shock her bosses
34:08into letting her continue.
34:21Vera receives word
34:23from SAS Major Barkworth
34:25about evidence
34:26from a secret concentration camp.
34:30A camp that has been liberated
34:32and filmed by US forces.
34:38Known as Natzweiler Struthof,
34:40the camp is hidden
34:41in the Vosges mountains
34:42of eastern France,
34:44close to the German border.
34:52It is the only camp
34:54of the Nazis build
34:55in France.
34:57A camp built
34:59to destroy
34:59the French resistance.
35:05On the 7th of December,
35:071941,
35:08Hitler passes an order
35:10code named
35:11Night and Fog.
35:14This secret order
35:15means anyone believed
35:17believed to be endangering
35:18German security
35:19can be abducted at night
35:21and without trial
35:22taken to Natzweiler.
35:26People would be,
35:27according to the Nazi order,
35:29turned into mist.
35:33It's a way of punishing people
35:35that was more feared
35:37than any other.
35:41But it's what Barkworth
35:43includes next
35:44in his report
35:45that has the most
35:46shocking impact
35:47on Vera's hunt
35:48for her lost
35:49women spies.
36:01Vera reads
36:02Barkworth's interrogation report
36:04of a former prisoner
36:06at Natzweiler,
36:08Franz Berg.
36:28Berg tells Barkworth
36:29he worked
36:30in the crematorium
36:31as a stoker.
36:34One day,
36:35in July 1944,
36:38Berg and the other stokers
36:39are told to expect
36:40some English women.
36:45From his crematorium cell,
36:48he witnesses
36:49their arrival.
36:55Franz gives a
36:57detailed deposition.
36:58He describes
37:00these English women
37:01who come.
37:02And on the night,
37:03he says that
37:04the head of the crematorium
37:06has told him
37:07to light the fires
37:08and take it
37:09to the hottest point
37:10by 9.30pm.
37:12They are hearing
37:13that these girls
37:14are going to be killed
37:15by lethal injection.
37:20They see three women
37:22being dragged.
37:23These are the English women.
37:24Two are unconscious.
37:25One of them
37:26seems to be moving.
37:27There's groans and grunts.
37:28And one even speaks
37:29and says,
37:30Purkwa?
37:32They are then dragged
37:33into the crematorium.
37:34They can't see anymore.
37:35And they say later
37:36that one of the women
37:37was alive
37:38and had scratched
37:39one of the men
37:40who had come.
37:42Then they heard
37:42the crematorium doors
37:43being shut
37:44and they knew it
37:45and they knew it was
37:45all being fired up.
37:49After that,
37:50there's silence.
37:54It's horror
37:56at what these girls
37:57would have gone through.
37:58There is no way
37:59when they prepared them
38:00for their training,
38:01for the torture
38:02that might lie ahead,
38:03they would have envisaged
38:05something like this.
38:10After being shown
38:11Vera's photographs
38:12of her missing spies,
38:14Berg says
38:15that he believes
38:16one of the women
38:16brought to the crematorium
38:19is Noor Inayat Khan.
38:24Vera would have been
38:26absolutely horrified
38:27and the thought
38:28that this could have been
38:29Noor as well.
38:30I mean,
38:30horrified for all the girls.
38:35and the fact
38:36that maybe
38:37this is what happened
38:38to Noor
38:38is something
38:39that really haunted her.
38:52Armed with Berg's testimony
38:54from Natsweiler,
38:56Vera heads
38:57to her superiors.
38:59She will not
39:01give up
39:01on her women.
39:11Berg's testimony
39:12makes disturbing reading
39:14for the British
39:15security services.
39:23Whitehall will be
39:24deeply troubled
39:25by the evidence
39:26that Vera
39:27is actually gaining
39:28of the sheer horror
39:29of the concentration camps
39:31because let's not forget
39:32that the public
39:33don't know
39:34that women
39:35were sent
39:36behind enemy lines.
39:39Whitehall would not want
39:40this highly secret
39:42organisation,
39:42the SOE,
39:44knowledge of it
39:44to come out,
39:45but even more sensitive
39:47and potentially
39:49a public outcry
39:50to hear that women
39:51had been dropped
39:52into these dangerous areas
39:54and that some of them
39:56hadn't come back
39:56and had been
39:57horrifically tortured.
40:00After seeing Berg's testimony,
40:02MI6 agree
40:03to fund Vera
40:04for another three months
40:06of investigations
40:07in the hope
40:08that Vera
40:09can keep the story
40:10of the lost women spies
40:11out of the public eye.
40:16Vera heads back
40:18to Germany.
40:41Vera is assigned
40:42to the war crimes unit
40:44at the British Army
40:45headquarters
40:45in Germany.
40:48The war crimes unit
40:49was based at
40:50Bad Orenhausen,
40:51which was the headquarters
40:52of the British Army
40:54on the Rhine.
40:55So it was a very
40:56important place.
40:57And the war crimes unit
40:58was really trying
40:59to find high-ranking Nazis,
41:01people who would have
41:02been involved
41:03in what we would call
41:04war crimes.
41:05So with executions,
41:07with maltreatment
41:08of prisoners,
41:09with the concentration
41:10camp system in general.
41:12And the idea
41:13would not only be
41:13to find these officers,
41:15but also to find evidence
41:17about crimes against humanity
41:19that they had committed.
41:20So various murders
41:22or procedures
41:24that they had followed
41:25that were against
41:26the Geneva Convention.
41:30Vera will support
41:31the British judges
41:32in their evidence gathering.
41:40Vera's main role
41:41within the war crimes unit
41:42was to trace
41:42the missing SOE agents.
41:45And her job would be
41:45to trace them
41:47as best she could.
41:48This was going to be
41:49exceptionally difficult for her
41:50as the prisoners
41:51were classified as
41:53Nacht und Nabel,
41:54Night and Fog.
41:54So most records
41:55would technically
41:56have disappeared
41:57if they'd ever been kept
41:58in the first place.
41:59But her job
42:00was to trace them
42:01through the various
42:02prison systems
42:03that they'd been through,
42:04had they gone into camps.
42:06And not only to trace them,
42:08but to trace the people
42:08responsible for their
42:09imprisonment
42:10and murders
42:11if that was going
42:12to be the case.
42:16Vera begins
42:17by tracing back
42:18her agent's whereabouts
42:20before they get
42:21to the camp
42:22at Natsweiler.
42:24And her attention
42:25turns to a witness
42:27who could hold the key.
42:29It's a name
42:30given to Vera
42:31by Odette Sansom.
42:34It is the chief warder
42:35of Karlsruhe prison,
42:37Fräulein Becker.
42:44Vera leaves
42:45the war crimes office,
42:46headed for Karlsruhe prison,
42:48in the hope
42:49that finding Becker
42:50might give her
42:51the information
42:52she needs.
42:56Fräulein Becker
42:57would have been
42:58really important
42:58for Vera
42:59to get her hands on.
43:00She'd been identified
43:01in one of the affidavits
43:02of the surviving agents
43:03anyway,
43:04and Vera needed
43:05to go out
43:06and find her.
43:07Because as the chief wardress,
43:08she would have received
43:09all new prisoners
43:10coming into Karlsruhe.
43:12She would have met
43:13them personally,
43:14taken away
43:14their personal effects,
43:16made a record
43:17of what they were.
43:18She would have also
43:18recorded their names.
43:20So be they real names
43:22or their aliases,
43:23she would have recorded
43:24the names of the SOE women
43:25going into that prison.
43:34On arrival at the prison,
43:37Vera discovers
43:37that Fräulein Becker
43:39hasn't even left
43:40her post
43:42as chief warder.
43:45Vera can now
43:47begin her questioning.
43:52Karlsruhe was technically
43:54a civilian prison,
43:55so it wasn't really
43:56used for political prisoners,
43:58which arguably
43:58the SOE agents were.
44:01When they arrived
44:02at Karlsruhe,
44:03they were put
44:04into solitary confinement.
44:09Food would have been
44:10pretty grim
44:11and very scarce.
44:13They would have only
44:13had the clothes
44:14they were standing up in.
44:15And we know
44:16that the cells
44:17were quite sparse,
44:18a single bed,
44:19maybe a bucket
44:19for a toilet.
44:20So it was
44:21a very grim place.
44:26I didn't want them here.
44:28This is a regular prison,
44:29not for politicals
44:30like them.
44:31They should never
44:32have been here.
44:45Them?
45:07Yes.
45:11All of them.
45:16And they all left
45:17in July 1944.
45:21No.
45:23The one you mentioned,
45:24Adette.
45:25She left then.
45:27The others,
45:28it was later in the year.
45:31So these seven
45:33in the photographs,
45:34they didn't leave
45:36in July.
45:36That's what I said.
45:38They left later.
45:41I need to see
45:42your records.
45:43Now, please.
45:44We don't have any.
45:46I can't imagine that.
45:50The French.
45:52When they came,
45:53they destroyed everything.
45:54Smashed it all up.
45:58All gone.
46:08Thank you,
46:09Fraulein Becker.
46:10I'm sure I'll see you
46:12again soon.
46:17Vera
46:17doesn't have the written
46:19records she needs
46:20as evidence,
46:21but she does have
46:22something more
46:23important.
46:25Becker's testimony
46:26directly contradicts
46:28the evidence
46:29of the crematorium
46:30stoker at
46:30Natsweiler,
46:32Franz Berg.
46:34Berg stated that
46:35four women
46:36are killed
46:37at the Natsweiler
46:38camp in July
46:391944.
46:41But Becker
46:42claims that,
46:43including Noor,
46:44seven of Vera's
46:45lost women spies
46:46are still in
46:48Karlsruhe prison
46:49later than July
46:501944.
46:51So those women
46:53could not have been
46:54the ones killed
46:55at Natsweiler.
46:57Vera already has
46:59an eyewitness
47:00testimony from
47:00Natsweiler saying
47:01that Noor is dead.
47:03And now she has
47:04another eyewitness
47:04testimony saying,
47:05no, that is not true.
47:06She is here.
47:07She needs some
47:09sort of
47:09corroborating evidence
47:10to prove where
47:12Noor is,
47:12one way or the other.
47:15Vera leaves
47:16Becker and
47:17Karlsruhe
47:18with the chance
47:19that some of
47:20her lost women
47:21spies could still
47:23be alive.
47:46And here is
47:54the honey
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