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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., the S.A.S.
02:31It's the 28th of April 1945.
02:36The Ravensbrück concentration camp for women in northern Germany, 90 kilometers 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.
03:20The man who has come for Odette is Fritz Surin.
03:26Get up!
03:28Move!
03:30Yes! Up, up, up!
03:33Yes!
03:35Out! Out!
03:38Fritz 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 labor programs that the women would be sent out into, the roundups for the executions,
03:53and also the 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!
04:03Odette is about to see daylight for the first time in six months.
04:08But her life hangs in the balance.
04:12Break!
04:21Surin flees the Soviet liberation of his camp,
04:25driving south of Berlin
04:28towards the U.S. army line.
04:33As the Red Army and the Americans get closer to Ravensbrück,
04:38the commandant, Surin, panics.
04:40Because at this point, he knows he is going to get captured by one army or the other,
04:46and he's going to make that decision himself.
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,
04:59believing she is the perfect bargaining chip to win him freedom.
05:06When Odette was captured,
05:08she gave the surname of her network chief,
05:11Churchill, as her own surname,
05:14convincing Surin that she 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?
06:15Because immediately Odette announces
06:17that not only is she not Churchill's niece or any relation to him,
06:21but she's an SOE agent
06:23and she just confesses everything,
06:25this key information that he's been after for ages.
06:28It must have been incredibly frustrating
06:29and also humiliating for him.
06:33Odette's final act of humiliation
06:36is to steal Surin's bag
06:38containing his personalised pistol.
06:41She hands him over to the Americans,
06:44watches while he's taken in,
06:45takes his bag,
06:46which has a pistol and his other belongings,
06:49and hands it over in London to Vera Atkins.
06:53It would have been a huge relief
06:55to finally get to safety.
06:57It would also be crucial
06:58because she knew about other agents.
07:00She could then give crucial information to Vera Atkins.
07:078th of May, 1945.
07:11The Nazis surrender.
07:17Victory in Europe.
07:24In London, thousands pour into the streets to celebrate
07:28as Churchill announces peace across the continent.
07:34For the SOE,
07:36it appears much of their work is done.
07:41But for Vera,
07:43her hunt is just beginning.
07:47Odette arrives back in London.
07:49She meets with Vera to debrief her
07:52and to see if she can help track down
07:54the lost women spies.
07:57It's so good to have you back.
08:08After they arrested me,
08:11I was kept in prison
08:14in 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.
09:03Mm-hmm.
09:05And finally, Rivensbrook.
09:08And finally, Rivensbrook.
09:32Karlsruhe.
09:34Karlsruhe.
09:34You said there were other women.
09:45Odette describes seven female agents
09:48that she remembers from Karlsruhe.
10:00It's an important lead for Vera.
10:09Nora Nierkan was one of Vera's favorite agents.
10:12One of the people she seems to really have cared about.
10:14When she was in training,
10:16there was some question mark
10:17as to whether or not Nora was good enough for the job
10:20because she seemed to be so kind.
10:22She said she could never lie.
10:23And yet Vera was really the one
10:25who gave the final approval
10:26and said, no, you're going to go
10:28and she'll be fine and it'll work.
10:36And Vera seems to have had
10:38a very guilty conscience,
10:40a very sort of deeply felt question
10:42as to what had happened
10:43to this delightful young woman
10:45who she really had been responsible
10:47for sending to France.
10:53I do.
10:55But no.
11:20I think Vera's reaction
11:22to starting to uncover the stories
11:24of these women
11:25and to trace them to Karlsruhe
11:26must have come as a real shock to her.
11:33To understand the dehumanizing process
11:36that they'd been put through
11:37right from their arrest
11:38and now they're in solitary confinement.
11:43These women that she would have last seen
11:44on an airfield in England
11:45full of life and full of hope
11:47and excitement for their missions
11:49suddenly in this horrible world
11:51having experienced some brutal things already
11:54and just starting to unravel their stories
11:58and wondering what became of them
12:00after they left this prison at Karlsruhe.
12:06Thanks to Odette,
12:08Vera has a major breakthrough in intelligence.
12:11It's important for Vera
12:13not only professionally
12:14but also personally.
12:18In a way,
12:20although Vera never had children herself,
12:22she does kind of have maternal qualities here
12:26in her investigation.
12:34Vera has the prison in Karlsruhe
12:37in southern Germany
12:38as the last location
12:40for at least seven women.
12:45Vera also knows
12:46about the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp
12:50situated in north-eastern Germany.
12:54Ravensbrück was a concentration camp
12:56just north of Berlin
12:57and unlike every other concentration camp,
13:00it was for women.
13:01It was particularly horrifying
13:03for the sensibilities of people
13:05in the 1940s as well
13:07where women are meant to be kept out of combat,
13:09out of war
13:10and treated with some level of humanity.
13:12Ravensbrück was a particular horrific sight
13:16to end up in.
13:20It's from here
13:21that three agents,
13:23including Yvonne Basden
13:25and Odette Sansom
13:27have come back alive.
13:33Ravensbrück is also
13:35the last known location
13:36for young mother and widow
13:39Violette Sabo.
13:47But there is one of Vera's agents
13:50that has not been spotted
13:51at either a prison or a camp,
13:55nor Inayat Khan.
14:02There is a generally held sense
14:04that Noor, amongst the others,
14:06might be alive.
14:10And so she realises too
14:12that there is a tremendous amount
14:13of pressure on her
14:14that if she is going to find
14:15her missing agents
14:16she is going to have to do it fast.
14:20Vera can't travel to Germany
14:22and continue her investigations
14:24due to her low rank.
14:27So she enlists the help
14:29of an army unit
14:30who are hunting Nazis
14:32across post-war Germany.
14:34A unit that was founded
14:36just a few years before.
14:39The SAS.
14:54The SAS, or Special Air Service,
14:58are an elite commando unit
15:00founded during the height of the war.
15:02The SAS were formed
15:05in the North African desert
15:06and the concept behind
15:07their kind of operations
15:08were these fast
15:09hit-and-run missions
15:10and they were deploying
15:11in these Willis jeeps
15:12which were very manoeuvrable
15:14and nimble
15:14and they were heavily armed
15:15with mounted machine guns.
15:17And the idea was
15:18to carry out
15:19these hit-and-run raids
15:20largely targeting
15:21Italian and German airfields.
15:25And they were extremely successful
15:27in the North Africa campaign.
15:29So in those 18 months or so
15:31that they soldiered there
15:32the SAS had destroyed
15:33387 proven enemy warplane kills.
15:37That's a spectacular achievement.
15:41But in the winter of 1942
15:43Hitler fights back.
15:47His Nazi high command
15:49issues the so-called
15:50commando order.
15:53What the command order said
15:55was that any parachutist
15:57so any allied parachutist
15:59that could be SAS
15:59it could be commandos
16:00it could be special operations
16:02executive agents.
16:03Any of those captured
16:04behind the lines
16:05whether in uniform
16:07or out of uniform
16:08whether fighting
16:09or not fighting
16:10whether trying to surrender
16:11or not
16:12would be kept alive
16:13only for as long
16:14as it took
16:14the Gestapo
16:15and the SS
16:16to interrogate them
16:17and find out
16:18what they knew
16:19and then they would be
16:20shot out of hand.
16:24In other words murdered.
16:28And what that meant
16:30for the SAS
16:31is if you were captured
16:32it was a death sentence.
16:34Despite the order
16:36the SAS continue
16:38their raids
16:39and are a key part
16:40of the allied success
16:41in northern France
16:43that sees the Nazis defeated.
16:49with the end of the war
16:50SAS Major Bill Barkworth
16:53and a team
16:54are sent to Germany
16:55to hunt down the Nazis
16:57who carried out
16:58the commando order
16:59and bring them to justice.
17:04Major Eric Bill Barkworth
17:06is an extraordinary figure
17:07in World War II
17:08and especially
17:09and especially
17:09within special forces history
17:10he's eccentric
17:12he's single-minded
17:13he's a maverick
17:15he's a rule breaker
17:16he's one of those
17:17very very archetypal
17:19individuals
17:20who can think
17:20the absolute unthinkable
17:22but the other thing
17:22about Barkworth as well
17:23which is key
17:24to how he develops
17:25as a character
17:26during the war
17:27is he's got this
17:28unshakable moral compass
17:29his sense of right
17:31and wrong
17:31is absolutely
17:32inflexible.
17:37Barkworth
17:38has commandeered
17:39a private villa
17:40the Villa Daegler
17:43in Garganau
17:44near Karlsruhe
17:45on the edge
17:47of the Black Forest
17:51and he is here
17:52on a special mission
17:54for the SAS
17:59on the 12th of August
18:011944
18:02an SAS team
18:03was dropped
18:04behind enemy lines
18:05in the Vosges mountains
18:07of eastern France
18:08to hit the Nazis
18:10before an Allied advance
18:14but the team
18:15were tracked down
18:17and 31 soldiers
18:19were captured
18:26after months
18:27of interrogation
18:30the soldiers
18:31were taken
18:31to the woods
18:32stripped
18:33and shot
18:38such a loss
18:39of life
18:39would have
18:40a profound effect
18:41on everyone
18:42in the SAS
18:44when you are
18:46serving in a unit
18:47like the SAS
18:47in World War II
18:48you forge
18:50these bonds
18:50of brotherhood
18:51with your fellow operators
18:53which are extremely
18:54extremely powerful
18:55and close
18:56you read the accounts
18:57from people at the time
18:58or you interview veterans
18:59as I have
19:00and you speak about
19:01those kind of relationships
19:02they are very
19:03very very special
19:05it's the kind of
19:06spirit that means
19:07you will lay down
19:08your life
19:09for your fellow
19:10brother in arms
19:11and that's what
19:11so often happens
19:20Barkworth is determined
19:22to find those
19:23responsible
19:23for the deaths
19:25of the 31 SAS
19:26soldiers
19:30chief among them
19:33is Hans Kiefer
19:35the head
19:36of the SD
19:40the Nazi intelligence agency
19:42in Paris
19:44a man Vera
19:46also believes
19:47may know
19:48what happened
19:49to her lost
19:50women spies
19:54so Vera shares
19:55the photos
19:56of her agents
19:56with Barkworth
19:57in the hopes
19:58he can help her
20:01both Barkworth
20:02and Vera
20:03their investigations
20:04led them to one name
20:06and that was
20:06Hans Kiefer
20:09he was in charge
20:10of the SD
20:11he was responsible
20:12for all of the
20:13investigations
20:14that the Gestapo
20:15and the SD
20:15were doing
20:16in Paris
20:16so he was responsible
20:18for the interrogation
20:20of what the agents
20:21and what the soldiers
20:22of the SAS
20:22went through
20:26he was a spider
20:27at the centre
20:28of the web
20:28issuing all these orders
20:30for interrogating
20:31and this is the man
20:32that they were desperate
20:33to find
20:35but as the atrocities
20:36of Kiefer
20:37and other Nazis
20:38come to light
20:40people back in the UK
20:41begin to ask
20:43some difficult questions
20:52Vera receives
20:54a letter
20:54alerting her
20:56to the actions
20:56of Violet Sabo's
20:58father
20:58Charles Bushell
21:02Violet has a child
21:04called Tanya
21:05and Bushell
21:06wants to know
21:07when the baby's
21:08mother will return
21:33Bushell is talking
21:35to his MP
21:35and giving interviews
21:37to the newspapers
21:38about his missing daughter
21:43for Vera
21:44and the SOE
21:45this could be
21:47a major problem
21:49Vera is in a very
21:50difficult situation
21:51because suddenly
21:53the war's over
21:54and these young women
21:56who've gone off
21:57to serve somewhere
21:57and their families
21:58don't know anything
21:59about what they really
22:00did in the SOE
22:01aren't coming home
22:07Violet Sabo's father
22:08who's been left
22:09with her infant daughter
22:10is starting to ask
22:12questions
22:12is starting to push
22:13for answers
22:13what's happened
22:14to my daughter
22:15why hasn't she come home
22:16and there are others
22:17starting to step forward
22:18and say listen
22:18we've heard nothing
22:20we don't know
22:20where they were serving
22:21we don't know
22:22what part of the world
22:23they've ended up in
22:23we don't know
22:24why they're not home
22:25and so there starts
22:26to become this pressure
22:27from family members
22:28and friends
22:29and other acquaintances
22:30of these young women
22:31who've just suddenly vanished
22:34and Vera
22:36has another problem
22:39she has a new boss
22:43head of SOE F section
22:45Morris Buckmaster
22:47has returned
22:48to his civilian role
22:49of public relations manager
22:51at the Ford Motor Company
22:54he is replaced
22:55by new broom
22:56Vera
22:59Captain Norman Mott
23:01please
23:02have a seat
23:03a man who comes
23:05from the SOE
23:06security section
23:08and whose main interest
23:10is in keeping things secret
23:13Mott doesn't help
23:15Vera very much
23:16he doesn't see this
23:17as the sort of
23:18passionate necessity
23:19that Vera sees it as
23:20and she's now started
23:22to get information
23:23about the camps
23:27and she's pushing
23:29to see if she can get
23:30a chance
23:30to have some sort of contact
23:32or interrogate
23:34the heads of these camps
23:35where her agents
23:36might have ended up
23:39and yet she's given
23:40the cold shoulder
23:41she's really effectively
23:42told that
23:43this isn't of interest
23:45to the government
23:46this is not of interest
23:47to her former colleagues
23:48and would she please
23:49just leave it alone
23:56so it's really
23:57tense for Vera
23:58she doesn't know
23:59how much power
24:00she will have
24:00to carry on
24:01this investigation
24:02she needs to find out
24:03if there are agents
24:04surviving in these camps
24:05she has to find them
24:07before they are dead
24:08or gone
24:08or any evidence
24:10of them
24:10is wiped out
24:11so the timing
24:12is crucial
24:13and she is basically
24:14racing against the clock
24:17Vera has to fight
24:19to convince Mott
24:20and the war office
24:21to allow her to go
24:22to Germany
24:23and speed up the hunt
24:24for her missing spies
24:29letters from agents
24:31relatives
24:31asking difficult questions
24:33puts pressure
24:34on the home office
24:38and after months
24:39of lobbying
24:40Vera gets her answer
24:45Vera will be given
24:46the rank
24:46of flight officer
24:48in the women's
24:49auxiliary air force
24:50allowing her
24:51to travel to Germany
24:56but she is told
24:57that she has just
24:59four days
25:00to demonstrate
25:01she can get results
25:14December 1945
25:19Vera's destination
25:20is Berlin
25:23a capital city
25:24in ruins
25:28a city conquered
25:29by the Soviet Union
25:34in among the destruction
25:35of Germany
25:36Vera has
25:37just a few days
25:38to prove her worth
25:40to the war office
25:46Vera's first mission
25:47is to identify
25:48the grave
25:49of F-Section's
25:50male agent
25:51Clément Marc Jumeau
25:53who is believed
25:54to have died
25:55of tuberculosis
25:56at a hospital
25:57north of Berlin
25:59many women
26:00were sent to Germany
26:01post-war
26:01but mostly
26:02in secretarial roles
26:03or in a way
26:04to assist
26:05with the men
26:06of the armed forces
26:07who were trying
26:08to reconcile
26:09Germany
26:10but Vera was there
26:11in a totally
26:11different capacity
26:12she had a mission
26:14that she wanted
26:14to fulfil
26:20and although
26:21she was probably
26:21very nervous
26:22and had a sense
26:23of trepidation
26:24she really had
26:25to mask that
26:26and to go forward
26:27with an air
26:28of confidence
26:28and to prove
26:30that she was
26:31the right person
26:31to uncover
26:32the stories
26:33of the missing agents
26:34but Vera
26:36has a problem
26:36Jumeau's grave
26:38is most likely
26:39in Soviet-controlled
26:40Germany
26:41north of Berlin
26:43after the fall
26:44of Germany
26:45the country
26:46is split
26:46into zones
26:47under control
26:48of the US
26:49the UK
26:49France
26:50and the Soviet Union
26:56at a checkpoint
26:57in Buch
26:58Vera is stopped
27:00by a Soviet sentry
27:01and her progress
27:02is halted
27:18Vera is blocked
27:19from entering
27:20from entering
27:21the Soviet zone
27:26if Vera fails
27:28here
27:28she knows
27:29there is no chance
27:30that Mott
27:30and the war office
27:31would allow her
27:32to continue
27:33her investigations
27:36but then
27:37Vera addresses
27:39the sentry
27:39in Russian
27:43something the sentry
27:44would not
27:45have been expecting
27:48they come to a Russian
27:49checkpoint
27:50and she speaks
27:51in Russian
27:51and it must have
27:52been a real shock
27:53because for him
27:54she was a member
27:56of the WAF
27:56you know
27:57she was a lady
27:58in a blue uniform
27:59and suddenly
28:00she's speaking Russian
28:01which would have been
28:02something he would have
28:03been completely
28:03unprepared for
28:06Vera somehow
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 is able
28:19to continue
28:19her journey
28:20into the Soviet zone
28:21thanks to her
28:23unexpected ability
28:24to speak Russian
28:36at 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
29:01now she can move
29:03on to the main reason
29:04for her journey
29:06Ravensbrück
29:16Ravensbrück
29:20the women's camp
29:2590 kilometers north
29:27of Berlin
29:32Ravensbrück
29:33is a hideous camp
29:35which was set up
29:36specifically
29:37to hold women
29:38and tens of thousands
29:40of women died there
29:41I think over 50,000 women
29:43were imprisoned there
29:48Ravensbrück
29:49Ravensbrück
29:49is of particular
29:50interest to 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 of her agents
30:03disappeared
30:05Vera is here
30:06to interrogate
30:08the commandant
30:08Fritz Soeren
30:10Ravensbrück camp
30:12is the camp
30:12which Odette
30:13left alive
30:14it is also
30:16the last known location
30:17of Vera's missing agent
30:19Violette Sabo
30:20along with two others
30:22Lillian Rolfe
30:23and Denise Block
30:26Soeren holds the key
30:28to not just one
30:29but possibly the lives
30:31of three
30:31of her agents
30:34the pressure
30:35is on
30:38Vera's not particularly
30:40experienced yet
30:41at 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
31:17I had special
31:18responsibilities
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
31:37I 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
32:51down
32:52she's
32:52to close
32:53the 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
33:07which is what we
33:08see from other
33:09military intelligence
33:10departments
33:11so there's no
33:12accountability
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 as
33:25quickly as
33:25possible
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 young
33:52women agents
33:53that she had
33:54personally
33:54sent to
33:55France
34:03what Vera
34:05needs
34:05is new
34:06evidence
34:07that will
34:07shock
34:08her bosses
34:08into letting
34:09her
34:10continue
34:21Vera receives
34:22word from
34:23SAS Major
34:24Barkworth
34:25about evidence
34:26from a secret
34:27concentration
34:28camp
34:29a camp
34:31that has been
34:32liberated
34:32and filmed
34:33by US
34:34forces
34:37known as
34:39Natsviler
34:39Strutov
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 the
34:53only camp
34:54the Nazis
34:54build
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
35:14secret order
35:15means anyone
35:16believed to be
35:17endangering German
35:18security
35:19can be abducted at
35:20night
35:21and without trial
35:22taken to
35:23Natsviler
35:26people would be
35:27according to the
35:28Nazi order
35:29turned into
35:30mist
35:33it's a way of
35:34punishing people
35:35that was more
35:36feared than
35:37any other
35:41but it's what
35:42Barkworth includes
35:43next in his
35:44report that
35:45has the most
35:46shocking impact
35:47on Vera's
35:48hunt for her
35:49lost women
35:50spies
36:01Vera reads
36:02Barkworth's
36:03interrogation
36:04report
36:04of a
36:05former
36:05prisoner
36:06at
36:06Natsviler
36:08Franzberg
36:28Bergh
36:28tells Barkworth
36:29he worked in
36:31the
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 English
37:01women who
37:01come
37:02and on the
37:02night
37:03he says
37:04that
37:04the head
37:05of the
37:05crematorium
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
37:11p.m.
37:13They are hearing
37:13that these
37:14girls are going
37:14to be killed
37:15by lethal
37:16injection
37:20they see
37:21three women
37:22being dragged
37:23these are the
37:23English women
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 and
37:30says
37:30Purkwa
37:32they are
37:33then dragged
37:33into the
37:33crematorium
37:34they can't
37:35see anymore
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 had
37:40come
37:42then they
37:42heard the
37:42crematorium
37:43doors being
37:43shut
37:44and they
37:45knew it
37:45was all
37:45being fired
37:46up
37:49after that
37:50there's
37:50silence
37:54it's horror
37:55at what
37:56these girls
37:57would have
37:57gone through
37:58there is no
37:59way when
37:59they prepared
38:00them for
38:00their training
38:01for the
38:02torture
38:02that might
38:03lie ahead
38:03they would
38:04have envisaged
38:05something like
38:05this
38:09after being
38:10shown
38:11Vera's
38:11photographs
38:12of her
38:12missing
38:13spies
38:13Berg
38:15says
38:15that he
38:15believes
38:16one of
38:16the
38:16women
38:16brought
38:17to the
38:17crematorium
38:19is
38:20Noor
38:20Inayat
38:21Khan
38:25Vera
38:25would have
38:25been
38:26absolutely
38:27horrified
38:27and the
38:28thought
38:28that this
38:28could have
38:28been Noor
38:29as well
38:29I mean
38:30horrified
38:30for all
38:31the girls
38:35and the
38:36fact that
38:37maybe this
38:37is what
38:38happened to
38:38Noor
38:38is something
38:39that really
38:39haunted her
38:52armed with
38:53Berg's
38:53testimony
38:54from
38:54Natsweiler
38:55Vera
38:56heads to
38:57her
38:57superiors
38:59she will
39:00not give
39:01up on
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
39:24will 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 come
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
39:52been
39:52dropped
39:52into
39:53these
39:53dangerous
39:54areas
39:54and
39:55that
39:55some
39:55of
39:55them
39:56hadn't
39:56come
39:56back
39:56and
39:57had
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 the
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 the
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
41:08prisoners
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
41:22procedures
41:24that
41:24they
41:24had
41:25followed
41:25that
41:26were
41:26against
41:26the
41:27Geneva
41:27Convention
41:30Vera
41:31will
41:31support
41:31the
41:32British
41:32judges
41:32in
41:33their
41:33evidence
41:33gathering
41:40Vera's
41:40main
41:40role
41:41within
41:41the
41:41war
41:41crimes
41:41unit
41:42was
41:42to
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
41:53naval
41:54night
41:54and
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
42:04gone
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 tracing
42:18back
42:18her
42:19agent's
42:19whereabouts
42:19before
42:20they
42:21get
42:21to
42:21the
42:21camp
42:22at
42:22Nats
42:22Weiler
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
42:36Fräulein
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
42:55she
42:56Fräulein
42:57Becker
42:57would
42:57have
42:57been
42:58really
42:58important
42:58for
42:59Vera
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
43:12would
43:12have
43:13met
43:13them
43:13personally
43:13taken
43:14away
43:14their
43:15personal
43:15effects
43:16made
43:16a
43:16record
43:17of
43:17what
43:17they
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
43:47questioning
43:52Karlsruhe
43:53was
43:53technically
43:54a
43:54civilian
43:55prison
43:55so
43:55it
43:56wasn't
43:56really
43:56years
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 a
44:29regular
44:29prison
44:29not
44:29for
44:30political
44:30like
44:30them
44:31they
44:32should
44:32never
44:32have
44:32been
44:32here
44:44them
44:45them
45:07yes
45:11all
45:12of
45:13them
45:16and
45:17they
45:17all
45:17left
45:17in
45:18July
45:181944
45:21no
45:23the
45:24one
45:24you
45:24mentioned
45:24Adette
45:25she
45:26left
45:26then
45:27the
45:28others
45:28it
45:28was
45:28later
45:28in
45:29the
45:29year
45:31so
45:32these
45:32seven
45:33in
45:33the
45:33photographs
45:34they
45:35didn't
45:35leave
45:36in
45:36July
45:36that's
45:37what
45:37I
45:37said
45:37they
45:38left
45:38later
45:41I
45:42need
45:42to
45:42see
45:42your
45:42records
45:43now
45:44please
45:44we
45:45don't
45:45have
45:45any
45:47I
45:47can't
45:47imagine
45:48that
45:50the
45:51French
45:52when
45:52they
45:52came
45:52they
45:53destroyed
45:53everything
45:53smashed
45:54it
45:54all
45:54up
45:58all
45:58gone
46:07thank
46:09thank you
46:09becker i'm sure i'll see you again soon vera doesn't have the written records she needs
46:20as evidence but she does have something more important becker's testimony directly contradicts
46:28the evidence of the crematorium stoker at natsweiler franz berg berg stated that four women
46:36are killed at the natsweiler camp in july 1944 but becker claims that including nor seven of vera's
46:45lost women spies are still in karlsruhe prison later than july 1944 so those women could not
46:53have been the ones killed at natsweiler vera already has an eyewitness testimony from natsweiler saying
47:01that nor is dead and now she has another eyewitness testimony saying no that is not true she is here
47:08she needs some sort of cooperating evidence to prove where nor is one way or the other
47:15vera leaves becker and karlsruhe with the chance that some of her lost women spies could still be alive
47:34so
47:43so
47:44so
47:44so
47:45so
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