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00:08World War II is over.
00:14The Allies have occupied Germany.
00:19But British women agents remain lost across Europe.
00:24Fire!
00:30Spymaster Vera Atkins now has a permanent position with the British Air Force
00:35to find her lost women spies.
00:39And she enlists the help of a crack team of SAS Nazi hunters,
00:44led by Major Bill Barkworth.
00:50Barkworth reports about a hidden concentration camp in eastern France,
00:55designed to make secret agents disappear without a trace.
01:02And the possibility that some of Vera's lost women spies may have died there.
01:11As Vera gathers evidence for the trials of leading Nazis,
01:15the horrors she is uncovering are too much for the authorities back in London.
01:22Vera receives a clear order.
01:24I need you to keep this disgusting business out of the newspapers.
01:29The true stories of all her lost women spies must be kept covered up.
01:35At all costs.
01:46The 11th of March, 1946.
01:51Nearly nine months since the end of the war in Europe.
01:59Vera is based at the British War Crimes Office in Germany,
02:04where her promotion allows her to travel the country to hunt for her lost women spies.
02:14Two names stand out.
02:30Vera is sent by Major Barkworth an interrogation report of prison crematorium worker France Berg.
02:45Berg claims Noor was killed along with three other women spies at the Natsweiler camp in July 1944.
02:55But a warder at Karlsruhe prison, Fräulein Becker,
03:00says she remembers Noor being in Karlsruhe many months later.
03:04Vera already has an eyewitness testimony from Natsweiler saying that Noor is dead.
03:12And now she has another eyewitness testimony saying,
03:14no, that is not true.
03:18Noor could still be alive.
03:23The other name is Violette Sabo.
03:28Violette left her one-year-old child behind to take up arms,
03:33a child whose father had already given his life in the war effort.
03:39Nazis won't know what hit them.
03:41Very good.
03:44Violette Sabo's situation is particularly sad because she lost her husband,
03:50who never actually met their daughter, gave birth to a child.
03:54And she left her child back with her family in the UK and parachuted into France.
04:01So determined was she to keep fighting against the Nazis.
04:06Violette was last heard of at the women's concentration camp at Ravensbrück,
04:12a camp from where Vera's agents Odette Sansom and Yvonne Bazden have both returned.
04:21So is Violette also alive?
04:27Vera never gives up hope.
04:29There's always this little sliver of hope that some of them would be alive.
04:33They may be in a terrible condition, but they are alive.
04:36Or they would have escaped and they will show up.
04:41So she keeps this hope in her when she goes, but she is prepared for the worst.
04:46And as she is uncovering these stories, Vera is getting hardened.
04:51The torture she's hearing about, it is hardening her.
04:57We have arrested an SS lieutenants from a camp north of Berlin.
05:03Which camp?
05:05Ravensbrück.
05:15Ravensbrück is Violette Sabo's camp.
05:20Is this the stroke of luck that Vera badly needs?
05:39SS lieutenant Johann Schwarzhuber was second in command at Ravensbrück.
05:49Schwarzhuber is a very important person for Vera to be able to interview
05:54because he holds absolutely crucial information
05:57about three of the women that she is looking for
06:01that she has since found out were taken to Ravensbrück concentration camp.
06:24That's why I have been a man who is left in the park.
06:42this one
06:46she had the name Violet
06:53and
06:55what happened to her
06:59all three
07:00were taken to the crematorium building of the camp
07:05and one by one
07:07they were shot
07:15how do you know
07:21I watched
07:35Vera now has testimony
07:37that along with Violet
07:39Lillian Rolfe
07:40and Denise Block
07:41were executed
07:43at the Ravensbrück concentration camp
07:45north of Berlin
07:49Vera must have been absolutely shocked
07:51to hear this information
07:53she would have clung on to any last thread of hope
07:56that the women had survived the camp
07:58as she heard of these women
07:59who she'd been so affectionate for
08:01who she had really travelled across Europe
08:04and in dreadful conditions
08:06trying to find out what had happened to them
08:08and finally
08:09she has the evidence
08:10that these three women were murdered
08:21Vera personally writes letters
08:23for the bereaved families
08:25each one
08:26detailing her search for these spies
08:29missing
08:29presumed dead
08:31Vera would have felt
08:33shocked
08:34and upset
08:35but to some extent
08:36I think she might have also felt relief
08:38she had closure
08:40on this story
08:42and although it wasn't the end
08:43she would have wanted
08:44or hoped for
08:45she was finally able to tell
08:47the families of these three women
08:49what had happened to them
08:50and they were able to finally understand
08:53what their daughters
08:54wives
08:54children
08:55had gone through
08:56and what they had sacrificed
08:58for their country
09:06each letter
09:07has to be assessed
09:08by her superiors
09:10to make sure
09:11Vera doesn't give away
09:12any incriminating evidence
09:16Vera is in a very difficult position
09:19because the fact that there were women agents
09:22is not yet common knowledge
09:23they want to keep it out of the public eye
09:25because it's a very difficult thing
09:27to try and explain to families
09:29and acquaintances
09:30and loved ones
09:31that actually your daughter was sent
09:33into harm's way
09:34without protection
09:36without the protection
09:37of the Geneva Convention
09:38or the Hague Convention
09:39without the protection
09:41of the British government effectively
09:42they were meant to be completely deniable
09:44if they were captured
09:46or caught
09:46or indeed killed
09:52but there remain other spies
09:54who are unaccounted for
09:56like Noor Inayat Khan
09:59who, with two other agents
10:01was last seen at the Natzweiler camp
10:03in the mountains of eastern France
10:08In a few months
10:09the Natzweiler war crimes trial
10:11will start
10:12and Vera
10:13has been instructed
10:14to gather as much evidence
10:16as she can
10:17but she can't do it
10:19alone
10:24In the spring of 1946
10:26Vera travels
10:28to Garganau
10:29a small town
10:30near Karlsruhe
10:43It's here
10:44she visits
10:44Major Bill Barkworth
10:46at a property
10:47his SAS unit
10:48have commandeered
10:49called
10:49the Villa Daigler
10:52Vera Atkins
10:54Good to finally meet you
10:56And you, sir
10:57Yes
11:01Barkworth
11:02has offered Vera
11:03the chance
11:03to get a witness statement
11:05from a former
11:06Natzweiler prisoner
11:08A man who worked
11:10as a crematorium stoker
11:12and is currently
11:13held captive
11:14in the cellars
11:15of the Villa
11:15along with other prisoners
11:17rounded up
11:17by Barkworth's
11:18Nazi hunter unit
11:19His name
11:21is Franz Berg
11:24Berg's testimony
11:25is key
11:26to whether Vera
11:27can get a conviction
11:28against those
11:30who ran the camp
11:30and may have murdered
11:32her women agents
11:40The next women
11:41to be killed
11:41by injection
11:48Rather than guessing
11:49were two English
11:51and two French women
12:04They were brought
12:06to the cells
12:06in the crematorium building
12:07one afternoon
12:09in July
12:101944
12:25we
12:26me
12:27and the other prisoners
12:30could see through
12:31the fan light
12:32without standing up
12:38we heard
12:39low voices
12:42we heard
12:43noises of
12:44every breathing
12:46and low groaning
12:49next to women
12:51we heard the same noises
12:53and regular groans
12:56but the fourth
12:58she resisted
13:00in the corridor
13:03I heard her say
13:05why
13:08okay
13:10Come on.
13:54Come on.
14:10A testimony identifying that some of Vera's agents, including Noor, were killed at the camp.
14:18But even with Berg's testimony, this is only one man's recollection.
14:24Vera needs more evidence.
14:30Vera continues her preparation for the Natsweiler war crimes trial.
14:36Thanks to Barkworth, she now has Berg's testimony and other witness statements.
14:43But Vera lacks a critical piece of evidence if she wants to convict those who ran Natsweiler.
14:51Vera needed hard evidence.
14:54If she wants to bring those perpetrators to justice, she needs to gather enough of the hard evidence that will
15:03stand up in a court of law to actually bring them to justice.
15:07Vera needs documentary evidence, something that ties those who ran the camp with her missing agents.
15:18So Vera tries to find documents that show which of her agents were murdered at Natsweiler.
15:26Four of her agents were sent there from Karlsruher prison.
15:31Surely, Fräulein Becker, at Karlsruher, would have kept records.
15:39I need to see your records. Now, please.
15:42We don't have any.
15:44I can't imagine that.
15:47The French.
15:49When they came, they destroyed everything.
15:51Smashed it all up.
15:56All gone.
15:59Fräulein Becker tells Vera that all the prison documents were destroyed by the French.
16:04Now, that reeks of a lie.
16:07Vera must have known she was lying.
16:09Why would the French go to a German prison and just randomly destroy all the records?
16:16But she's nowhere for finding out unless Fräulein Becker tells her the truth.
16:20And how is she going to get her to do that?
16:26Vera chooses to visit Becker again.
16:29This time with the SAS.
16:40At Karlsruher prison, Barkworth and Vera confront Fräulein Becker.
16:48Where are they?
16:50Where are what?
16:51The records!
16:52I don't know.
16:54I know you know.
16:55Where are they?
16:55I don't know.
16:59Search of it.
17:00All of it!
17:04You said the French destroyed everything.
17:06They did.
17:06Why would they do that?
17:07I don't know!
17:08Because you lie!
17:11Mom!
17:14What do we have here, hmm?
17:16I don't know.
17:21The records.
17:23You lie.
17:26Liar!
17:44Vera and Barkworth go through the prison records.
17:49Every entry and exit from the prison is marked.
17:55Vera finds entries that on the 6th of July, 1944,
18:00four women agents are transferred from the prison at Karlsruher
18:03to the concentration camp at Natsweiler.
18:10This corroborates what Berg told Vera
18:13about four agents who were killed at Natsweiler.
18:23Vera now has clear evidence
18:25that four women agents were murdered.
18:29The names are Andre Borel,
18:33Vera Lee,
18:35Diana Roden,
18:38and Sonia Olshineski.
18:42The fourth name,
18:44Sonia Olshineski,
18:45is unknown to Vera.
18:49Vera expected to see
18:51Noor's name or alias.
18:55Witnesses had identified Noor
18:57as travelling with this group
18:59to Natsweiler.
19:01Noor was born in Moscow,
19:02so a Russian-sounding alias
19:04could make sense.
19:09For Vera,
19:10Sonia Olshineski's entry,
19:12taken with other evidence,
19:14is actually for Noor
19:16in Ayat Khan.
19:19Vera has written evidence
19:21that four SOE women,
19:23including Noor in Ayat Khan,
19:25are transported from Karlsruher
19:27to Natsweiler
19:28and most likely killed there.
19:32She can now take the evidence
19:34to trial.
19:40The 29th of May, 1946.
19:44The Natsweiler war crimes trial
19:46begins in Vorpital,
19:48in the west of Germany.
19:51The Natsweiler trial
19:52would have been so important
19:54to Vera,
19:55and it was her other chance
19:56to get information
19:57about the women
19:58so she could provide that
19:59to the families
20:00and their close ones,
20:01but also to bring
20:02these men to justice.
20:06This was the most brutal execution,
20:09murder, in fact,
20:11of these women.
20:12It didn't need to be done
20:13in such a horrific manner,
20:15if at all.
20:17This will be a British-led trial,
20:19with Nazis tried on German soil,
20:22but under international law.
20:25a trial about one of the Nazis'
20:28specially hidden concentration camps
20:30in the mountains of France.
20:34Natsweiler isn't particularly well-known,
20:36but it was in microcosm
20:38the system of the concentration camps
20:41set up in Germany,
20:42and in this case in France.
20:43It was a camp of 22,000 deaths,
20:46around 55,000 people held,
20:49went through Natsweiler,
20:50so relatively small
20:51compared to some of the
20:52other concentration camps
20:53in the Reich,
20:54but nevertheless,
20:55a system of tremendous brutality,
20:58slave labor,
20:59medical experimentation,
21:00oppression,
21:01violence,
21:02the Kapo system,
21:03a terrible, terrible place.
21:08But before the trial starts,
21:11Vera receives a blunt instruction
21:13from her new boss,
21:15Norman Mott.
21:16Vera,
21:19everything,
21:20and I mean everything,
21:22has been done in London
21:24to keep this disgusting business
21:26out of the newspapers.
21:28I need you to ensure
21:30that the press's interest
21:31is discouraged.
21:33But to our reputations,
21:34any good?
21:37I understand.
21:42I suggest you start
21:43by getting the names of the dead
21:45withheld from the trial.
21:51Their families won't like it, Norman.
21:55They want to know what happened.
22:00Too bad.
22:02It's a disgusting business,
22:04which is best buried.
22:10Have you got a match?
22:24The Natsviler trial would have been a troubling time for Vera,
22:28not only because of hearing the dreadful incidences
22:31and details of what had happened,
22:33but also the SOE was still a secretive organisation.
22:36People were not aware
22:38that women had been sent into the fields
22:40in violation of the Geneva Convention.
22:46And she probably worried
22:47not only if their names got out into the press
22:50what had happened to them,
22:51but there was questions
22:52but there was questions
22:53to be start to raise
22:53about who had sent them,
22:55why had they sent them,
22:56why had this been allowed to happen.
23:01After four days of hearings,
23:03the verdicts are delivered
23:05to the accused.
23:15Werner Roder,
23:16the medical officer
23:17who injected the women,
23:18is given a death sentence.
23:28Peter Straub,
23:30SS officer in charge of the executions,
23:33is given 13 years in prison.
23:36Later that year,
23:38he is given a death sentence.
23:41Fritz Hardenstein,
23:43the commandant of Natsviler,
23:44is imprisoned for life.
23:48The verdict of the Natsviler trial
23:50was that the three men
23:51who were on trial
23:53for the murder of these SOE women
23:55were all found guilty.
23:56So in some respects,
23:58that's a very positive outcome.
24:00She had proved
24:01that this murder was unlawful,
24:03this execution,
24:04as they called it.
24:05But then the sentences
24:06may have been a bittersweet moment.
24:09Did Vera want an eye for an eye
24:10at this point?
24:11Did she want to see these men suffer
24:13and pay the ultimate price?
24:15Or was she just happy
24:16to have received the guilty verdict?
24:18She was a very straightforward woman,
24:20and I think she would have been
24:22just pleased to have seen
24:23these men go down
24:25for what they'd done.
24:29Vera secures the agreement
24:30of the court that the names of the dead
24:32will be withheld from publication.
24:36Thanks to Vera's work,
24:38the trial fails to create
24:40Mott's much-feared newspaper sensation.
24:44Vera's role in the affair
24:45remains out of the public eye.
24:57Vera turns her attention
24:59to her final three women spies
25:02from Karlsruhe,
25:03who are unaccounted for.
25:06Yolande Beekman,
25:08Eliane Plumann,
25:09and Madeleine Damermont.
25:16Vera comes across
25:17an interrogation statement
25:19taken by American investigators
25:21of Gestapo soldiers
25:23stationed in the town of Karlsruhe.
25:34One soldier, Max Vassmer,
25:37recalls transporting women prisoners
25:40from Karlsruhe
25:41to Dachau concentration camp.
25:46The ranks of three of the women
25:48match those of Vera's
25:50unaccounted agents,
25:52and Vassmer's detailed description
25:55of one woman
25:56matches Madeleine Damermont.
26:03At Dachau,
26:04Vassmer reportedly tells his colleagues
26:07that he pronounced
26:08the death sentence
26:09on the women
26:11and that they were then killed.
26:16But can Vera be sure?
26:20Other Gestapo soldiers
26:22claim there were four women,
26:24not three,
26:25like Vassmer says.
26:26They also claim
26:28that one of the women
26:29came from a completely
26:30different prison
26:31called Pforzheim,
26:32not Karlsruhe,
26:34as Vassmer states.
26:36One of the problems
26:37that Vera has,
26:38and indeed all of the people
26:40involved in the war crimes trials have,
26:42is the veracity of the witnesses.
26:44Because when she got testimony
26:46or drawings
26:48or verification
26:49from her own side,
26:52her own agents
26:53or people who were also
26:54in the camps
26:54and said they saw
26:55three women
26:56or four women
26:57who came into the camp,
26:59she can believe them.
27:00They may not remember everything,
27:01but at least
27:02she knows
27:03that they're being honest.
27:04But when you're relying
27:05on the testimony
27:06of an SS officer
27:07or a capo
27:08who's worked in the camp,
27:10they're also self-interested.
27:11They also want
27:12to exonerate themselves.
27:13And so it's very difficult
27:15often to know
27:15if they're telling the truth.
27:17And so even though
27:18she gets the Vassmer testimony
27:20and she thinks
27:21she's got some solid information
27:23about what's happened
27:23to her final three agents,
27:25she can't really be sure,
27:27particularly when then
27:28she gets contradictory evidence.
27:31Can Vera trust Vassmer's testimony
27:33in the report?
27:36Vera has to find Vassmer
27:38and interrogate him herself.
27:44August 1946.
27:49After months of searching,
27:51Vera tracks Vassmer down
27:53to internment camp number 74
27:55in Ludwigsberg, Germany.
28:01Vera is the only one
28:03who knows all three SOE agents.
28:05She knows them intimately.
28:07And Max Vassmer says
28:09that he thinks
28:10he's identified them.
28:11Now, this is a huge big deal
28:12because Vera can actually
28:13get the man in front of her
28:15and determine
28:16whether these women
28:17were different women
28:19or were her agents.
28:20And, you know,
28:21being there
28:22and able to speak
28:22to somebody about it
28:23where you know,
28:24you know,
28:25if you show somebody
28:25a photograph,
28:27you know whether they go,
28:27that's definitely the person
28:28or I think that's the person.
28:30And it's all to do
28:31with intonation.
28:31It's all to do
28:32with being in the same room
28:33as someone.
28:34So for Vera,
28:35being in the same room
28:35as Max Vassmer
28:36is really important
28:38so that she
28:38can interrogate him.
28:41Your name is Max Vassmer,
28:43correct?
28:46Yes.
28:49And you transported women
28:51from Karlsruhe Prison
28:52to Dachau,
28:53correct?
29:11Yes.
29:15And then you watched
29:16as they were shot
29:17as they were shot,
29:18correct?
29:21No.
29:23I handed them over
29:24to the guards.
29:26This report clearly states
29:28that witnesses
29:29saw you take the women
29:30to be shot.
29:34Well, I was there,
29:35yes.
29:37I wasn't present
29:39at the end.
29:42The guards took
29:43the women in,
29:44not me.
29:46We just...
29:48We just did transport.
29:52Then how did others
29:54know that four women
29:55were killed?
29:56Three.
29:58The report says
29:59four women.
30:02It was three.
30:05How can you be so sure?
30:07Because they gave me
30:08a receipt.
30:12A what?
30:16The next day,
30:18the guards gave me
30:19a receipt
30:19for three women spies
30:21shot dead.
30:23We needed it
30:24for bookkeeping
30:25back at Karlsruhe.
30:32Shall I describe
30:33them for you?
30:38Three women.
30:40Vasper provides
30:42descriptions
30:42of three women
30:44transferred from
30:45Karlsruhe
30:46to Dachau
30:47that match
30:48Vera's records
30:48of three
30:49SOE women.
30:51Vera has sufficient
30:52proof
30:53that her
30:54SOE agents
30:55Jolande Beekmann,
30:57Eliane Plumann
30:59and Madeleine
31:00Dahmermoor
31:00are killed
31:02at Dachau.
31:05Vera,
31:06after interviewing
31:07Max Fassmer,
31:08now has
31:09everybody
31:09accounted for.
31:10She knows
31:11exactly where
31:12all of her
31:13agents ended up
31:14and there must have
31:15been a sort of
31:16wonderful sense
31:16of completion
31:17but also
31:17this sort of
31:18tragic pang
31:19of knowing
31:20that there's
31:21nobody left
31:22to be saved
31:23and just
31:23the horrific
31:24nature of
31:25their deaths.
31:25It must have
31:26been absolutely
31:27awful.
31:34Vera now
31:35believes
31:36she has
31:37sufficient
31:37evidence
31:38to account
31:39for every
31:39one of her
31:40lost women
31:41spies
31:41alive
31:42or dead.
31:46She writes
31:47up a report
31:48for London
31:48closing the
31:50case.
31:52Of the
31:5339 women
31:54Vera sent
31:55to war,
31:5627 returned
31:58alive.
32:00Many
32:00after
32:01sustained
32:02torture.
32:0712
32:08lose their
32:09lives
32:09at the
32:10hands
32:10of the
32:11Nazis.
32:16She
32:17encloses
32:18draft letters
32:19to be sent
32:20to the
32:20women's
32:20next of kin.
32:22Details of
32:23their names
32:23to be completed
32:24in London.
32:28It is with
32:29the deepest
32:29regret that I
32:30have to inform
32:31you that your
32:32daughter was
32:33killed in the
32:34early hours of
32:35the 13th of
32:36September,
32:371944,
32:38in the camp
32:39of Dachau.
32:40According to
32:41what is believed
32:42to be a reliable
32:43report, she was
32:44shot through the
32:45back of the head
32:46and death
32:47was immediate.
32:49the body was
32:50cremated in the
32:51camp crematorium.
32:53Vera does
32:54succeed in
32:55discovering the
32:57fate of the
32:5712 missing
32:58women agents
32:59and in that
33:01sense there is
33:02closure for her.
33:04She has succeeded
33:05in discovering
33:06what's happened to
33:06all of them,
33:07but also it
33:08means that she
33:09can write to
33:10the families
33:11and personally
33:12tell them
33:13what's happened
33:14and she carries
33:15that for the
33:16rest of her
33:17life.
33:18What you find
33:19later in life
33:20is some of the
33:21children of the
33:22agents who died
33:23in action
33:24actually seek her
33:25out.
33:25They travel from
33:26across the world
33:26because she's the
33:28one tangible
33:29physical link
33:31with those agents
33:33and so she assumes
33:34a really important
33:35role, not only
33:37immediately after
33:39investigations, but
33:41for the rest of her
33:42life.
33:42She's the one that
33:44carries their memory.
33:49Vera has finally
33:50uncovered the fate of
33:52her missing women
33:53and prepares to leave
33:55Germany.
34:00With this part
34:01of her mission
34:02over, Vera
34:03will return
34:04to England.
34:13Now, she must
34:14answer the
34:15hardest question.
34:18How did it all
34:20go so wrong?
34:33Vera must
34:34now uncover
34:35why so many
34:36of her agents
34:37were captured
34:38and how the
34:39Nazi intelligence
34:40service seemed
34:42to infiltrate
34:43SOE's agent
34:44networks so
34:45successfully?
34:47When Vera
34:47returns to
34:48England, there's
34:49a niggling
34:50doubt in her
34:50mind that
34:52perhaps they
34:53have been
34:54betrayed.
34:54She has been
34:55betrayed.
34:56Perhaps there
34:57was a spy
34:58within the
34:59SOE.
35:00Perhaps there
35:01was somebody
35:01betraying them
35:02all, all
35:02along.
35:06And the
35:07most terrifying
35:08fear starts
35:09to take hold
35:09of her, that
35:10somebody very
35:11close to her,
35:12somebody who
35:12she has to
35:13have worked
35:13with at SOE
35:15itself, might
35:16have actually
35:16betrayed her.
35:17And she has
35:18to start
35:18thinking, did
35:19I send
35:20these agents
35:22out to
35:23their deaths?
35:23were there
35:24being parachuted
35:25to or flown
35:26to the
35:27waiting arms
35:28of treachery?
35:31The man
35:32who is key
35:32to this is
35:33the head
35:34of Nazi
35:34security in
35:35France,
35:36Hans Kiefer,
35:37who is hiding
35:38somewhere in
35:39Germany.
35:42Find Kiefer
35:43and you
35:44find the
35:45traitor.
35:58Vera passes
35:59a tip to
35:59her friend,
36:00SAS Major
36:01Bill Barkworth,
36:02that Kiefer
36:03might be
36:04hiding in
36:04his hometown
36:05of Garmisch
36:06in Bavaria.
36:12with Kiefer
36:13on the run,
36:14Vera turns
36:15to another
36:16leading Nazi
36:17to try and
36:18uncover how
36:19the Germans
36:19captured her
36:20women agents.
36:24He is the
36:25man who
36:25masterminded
36:26the Nazi
36:26radio operation
36:27in northern
36:28France.
36:32Dr.
36:33Josef
36:33Goetz.
36:40Goetz
36:41worked as
36:41one of
36:42Kiefer's
36:42lead
36:43counterintelligence
36:44officers.
36:46Dr.
36:47Goetz
36:47works
36:48in
36:48Avenue
36:49Fauch
36:49in the
36:50Sicherheitsdienst
36:51headquarters
36:51in Paris
36:52and he's
36:53an underling
36:54of SS
36:55Strombanfeu
36:55or Kiefer
36:56from the
36:56Sicherheitsdienst
36:57and his
36:59job is
37:00effectively
37:00to engage
37:02in
37:02counterespionage
37:03to collect
37:04the evidence,
37:06letters,
37:06documents from
37:07enemy agents
37:08and keep
37:09them,
37:09analyze them
37:10and then give
37:11that information
37:11forward back
37:12to Kiefer
37:13and inform
37:13him about
37:14what the
37:14agents are
37:15up to.
37:17There is
37:17one thing
37:18Goetz
37:18is especially
37:19good at
37:20which is
37:21fooling the
37:21British
37:21with fake
37:22radio
37:23transmissions.
37:28London
37:29London was
37:29oblivious
37:30that agents
37:30had been
37:31captured
37:33and that
37:34Goetz
37:34was using
37:35information
37:35tortured out
37:36of them
37:36to trick
37:37SOE
37:38into revealing
37:39intelligence
37:40about the
37:41agents'
37:41circuits.
37:43It's
37:43basically a
37:44game that
37:45they were
37:46playing with
37:47the British
37:47by sending
37:48them false
37:49messages through
37:50their own
37:50wireless
37:51transmitters.
37:51So when
37:52you'd capture
37:52an agent
37:53it'd be
37:53taken back
37:54to Avenue
37:54Foch
37:55and they'd
37:56been
37:56interrogated
37:57and their
37:57actual
37:57transmitter
37:58was kept.
37:59So that
38:00that meant
38:00that when
38:01they gave
38:01them the
38:02right codes
38:03they could
38:03then give
38:04false
38:05messages back
38:05to London
38:06and get
38:07them to do
38:07all sorts of
38:08things that
38:08they wanted
38:09to make
38:09them think
38:09that agents
38:10were still
38:10okay and
38:11hadn't been
38:11detained or
38:12indeed give
38:13them false
38:14messages about
38:15what was
38:15happening in
38:15the war that
38:16would get
38:16passed up
38:17the chain
38:17to Winston
38:18Churchill
38:18and affect
38:19the war.
38:22Gertz is
38:22one of
38:23thousands of
38:23suspected war
38:24criminals arrested
38:26after the war
38:27but when it is
38:28discovered that
38:29he is the radio
38:30mastermind at
38:31Avenue Foch
38:32he is sent to
38:33England for
38:34further interrogation.
38:37Funk spiel
38:39that's what we
38:40called it
38:41the radio game
38:44and London was
38:45very bad at it.
38:48we would
38:49impersonate one
38:50of your agents
38:52ask questions
38:54and London
38:55would give
38:55us the answer
38:56with a
38:57little slap
38:59on the wrist
39:01please use
39:02your security
39:02code next
39:03time.
39:11London was
39:12a joke
39:14when the agents
39:15we captured
39:16knew how much
39:17we knew already
39:19well
39:20they simply
39:21gave up.
39:24What did
39:25you do once
39:25the agents
39:26were caught?
39:29We
39:31interrogated
39:32them
39:33for more
39:34personal
39:35information.
39:37More?
39:39Kiefer
39:40told your
39:41agents
39:42that we
39:43knew all
39:44their secrets
39:44already
39:45and if
39:46they wanted
39:47to live
39:48well
39:49they'd have
39:51to
39:51collaborate
39:52with him.
39:55How did
39:56Kiefer
39:57know so
39:57much?
39:59Personal
39:59information
40:00was never
40:01shared
40:01by radio.
40:03No
40:04not by
40:05radio.
40:08The only
40:09personal
40:09information
40:10was sent
40:11by
40:11mail.
40:21Goetz
40:22reveals
40:22that Kiefer
40:23somehow
40:24gets access
40:25to personal
40:26letters
40:26that Vera's
40:28agents
40:28send from
40:29France
40:29back home
40:30to England.
40:37Uncoded
40:38letters
40:38full
40:39of
40:40private
40:40information.
40:44Vera
40:44discovers
40:45that Kiefer
40:46has actually
40:47had access
40:47to all
40:49of the
40:49mail
40:49from the
40:50agents
40:50so
40:51they didn't
40:52have a
40:53chance
40:53when the
40:53agents
40:54had dropped
40:54into
40:54France.
40:55The
40:55Germans
40:55know
40:56exactly
40:56who's
40:57coming
40:57and
40:57when
40:57and
40:58that
40:58realisation
41:00that the
41:00Germans
41:01were reading
41:01all the
41:02agents'
41:02mail
41:03must have
41:04been
41:04such a
41:05shocking
41:06revelation
41:06to Vera.
41:07And then
41:08it leads
41:09to the
41:09next
41:09question
41:10who
41:11had
41:11betrayed
41:12them?
41:17How did
41:18Kiefer
41:18get the
41:19mail?
41:21Kiefer
41:22told me
41:22that he
41:24got it
41:24from
41:24Gilbert.
41:38Yes.
41:40I believe
41:41that's him.
41:45Gilbert
41:46is the
41:47codename
41:48for
41:48French
41:49agent
41:50Henri
41:51Deracore.
42:01The man
42:02SOE
42:02had
42:03trusted
42:03with
42:03the
42:03safety
42:04of
42:04their
42:04agents
42:05appears
42:06to
42:06be
42:06a
42:07traitor.
42:09Deracore
42:10had
42:11already
42:11been
42:11recalled
42:11to
42:12London
42:12by
42:12Buckmaster
42:13and
42:13Boddington
42:14after
42:15allegations
42:15of
42:16collaborating
42:16with
42:17the
42:17Nazis.
42:19Deracore
42:20pleaded
42:20his
42:21innocence
42:21and
42:22after
42:22an
42:22investigation
42:23Don't
42:24worry
42:24Deracore
42:25we'll
42:25clear
42:26this
42:26whole
42:26sorry
42:26business
42:27up
42:27and
42:27thanks
42:28sir
42:28he
42:29is
42:29cleared
42:32Vera
42:33is
42:33put
42:33in
42:34a
42:34position
42:34where
42:34she
42:35either
42:35believes
42:36a
42:36Nazi
42:36or
42:37a
42:37possible
42:38double
42:38agent
42:39Henri
42:39Deracore
42:40is in
42:40the
42:40heart
42:41of
42:41the
42:41SOE
42:42he
42:42is
42:42one
42:43of
42:43their
42:43own
42:44this
42:44is
42:44a
42:45man
42:45that
42:45she
42:45hands
42:46over
42:46her
42:46agents
42:47to
42:47how
42:47could
42:47she
42:47possibly
42:48believe
42:49that
42:49he
42:49could
42:49be
42:49a
42:50double
42:50agent
42:50he
42:50was
42:50cleared
42:51I
42:51mean
42:51surely
42:52everybody
42:52knows
42:53him
42:53but
42:54how
42:54did
42:55the
42:55Nazis
42:55know
42:56so
42:56much
42:56how
42:57is
42:58it
42:58possible
42:58and
42:59here
42:59is
42:59Gertz
43:00saying
43:01well
43:01you
43:01know
43:01this
43:02I'm
43:02telling
43:03you
43:03the
43:03truth
43:03and
43:04it
43:04must
43:05have
43:05been
43:05such
43:06a
43:06worm
43:06in
43:07her
43:07mind
43:07was
43:08Deracore
43:09a
43:09spy
43:10a
43:10double
43:11agent
43:12so
43:13who
43:13is
43:14telling
43:14the
43:14truth
43:15Deracore
43:16or
43:17Gertz
43:19one
43:19of
43:20the
43:20problems
43:20with
43:21trying
43:21to
43:21tease
43:22out
43:22a
43:23spy
43:23is
43:23that
43:24you
43:24have
43:24to
43:24trust
43:25people
43:25that
43:25you
43:25don't
43:25trust
43:26and
43:27in
43:27this
43:27case
43:27she's
43:28talking
43:28to
43:28people
43:28like
43:28Dr.
43:29Goetz
43:29from
43:29the
43:29SD
43:30and
43:31it's
43:31in
43:31his
43:32vested
43:32interest
43:33and
43:33has
43:33been
43:33for
43:34years
43:34to
43:35play
43:36cat
43:36and
43:36mouse
43:36games
43:37with
43:37the
43:37SOE
43:38and
43:38with
43:38people
43:39like
43:39Vera
43:39and
43:40so
43:40she
43:40has
43:40to
43:41decide
43:41well
43:41can
43:42I
43:42trust
43:42somebody
43:48really
43:48know
43:54the
43:55only
43:55way
43:55for
43:56Vera
43:56to
43:56be
43:57sure
43:57is
43:58to
43:58find
43:58the
43:58mastermind
43:59for
43:59all
44:00Nazi
44:00intelligence
44:01in
44:01northern
44:01France
44:02Hans
44:03Kiefer
44:05a
44:06man
44:06who
44:07is
44:07on
44:07the
44:07run
44:07hiding
44:08somewhere
44:09in
44:09Germany
44:21but
44:21all
44:22of
44:22Vera's
44:22work
44:23comes
44:23into
44:23question
44:24when
44:25she
44:25receives
44:25a
44:25letter
44:25forwarded
44:26by
44:27her
44:27superior
44:27Norman
44:28Mott
44:31the
44:32letter
44:32is
44:33written
44:33by
44:33Yolande
44:34LaGrav
44:34a
44:35member
44:35of
44:36the
44:36French
44:36resistance
44:39LaGrav
44:40writes
44:40that
44:41in
44:41June
44:411943
44:42she
44:43was
44:43arrested
44:44by
44:44the
44:44Gestapo
44:45and
44:45transferred
44:46to
44:47Pforzheim
44:47prison
44:53I
44:54was
44:54able
44:54to
44:55correspond
44:55with
44:55an
44:55English
44:56parachutist
44:57who
44:57was
44:57locked
44:57up
44:57there
44:58also
44:58she
44:59was
44:59very
45:00unhappy
45:01her
45:02hands
45:03and feet
45:03were
45:03chained
45:04and
45:05she
45:05was
45:05never
45:05allowed
45:06out
45:07I
45:07heard
45:08the
45:08blows
45:08which
45:08she
45:09received
45:09from
45:09the
45:09prison
45:10guards
45:10she
45:11was
45:11taken
45:11away
45:12from
45:12Fortsheim
45:13in
45:13September
45:141944
45:15before
45:16she
45:16left
45:17she
45:17had
45:18been
45:18able
45:18to
45:18send
45:18me
45:19not
45:19her
45:19name
45:20because
45:20it
45:20was
45:20too
45:21dangerous
45:21but
45:21her
45:21alias
45:22and
45:23she
45:23also
45:23wrote
45:23down
45:23her
45:24address
45:24for
45:24me
45:24it
45:25was
45:25this
45:26Nora
45:27Baker
45:27Radio
45:28Center
45:29Officer
45:29Service
45:30RAF
45:304
45:31Taveston
45:31Street
45:32London
45:33I
45:34kept
45:34the
45:34address
45:36into
45:36my
45:36hand
45:39Noor
45:40Inayat
45:40Khan
45:41had been
45:41recruited
45:42as a
45:42wireless
45:43operator
45:43from
45:44the
45:44WAF
45:44the
45:45women's
45:45division
45:46of
45:46the
45:46RAF
45:484
45:49Taveston
45:50Street
45:50London
45:50had once
45:51been
45:52her
45:52family's
45:52home
45:53and
45:54Nora
45:54Baker
45:55had once
45:56been
45:57her
45:57alias
46:10Vera
46:10believes
46:11the
46:11prisoner
46:11Lagrave
46:12writes
46:12about
46:13is
46:14Noor
46:15and
46:16if
46:16Noor
46:16had
46:16been
46:17held
46:17at
46:17Pforzheim
46:18until
46:18September
46:191944
46:21then
46:21there
46:21is
46:22no
46:22way
46:22she
46:22could
46:23have
46:23been
46:23one
46:23of
46:23the
46:23four
46:24women
46:24killed
46:24at
46:24Natsviler
46:25in
46:26July
46:261944
46:29When
46:29Vera
46:30learns
46:30about
46:30Noor's
46:31fate
46:31and
46:32the
46:32fact
46:32that
46:32she's
46:32gone
46:32to
46:32Pforzheim
46:33it's
46:33such
46:34a
46:34mix
46:34of
46:34emotions
46:35because
46:35here
46:36she
46:36thought
46:36she's
46:36written
46:37to
46:37the
46:37family
46:37that
46:38Noor
46:39has
46:39been
46:39killed
46:39in
46:39Natsviler
46:40she
46:41has
46:41internalized
46:42that
46:42now
46:43dealt
46:43with
46:43that
46:44thought
46:44there's
46:44been
46:44some
46:44closure
46:45and
46:45now
46:45this
46:46has
46:46opened
46:46up
46:46something
46:47else
46:47could
46:48Noor
46:48be
46:48alive
46:48did
46:49she
46:54the
46:55final
46:55journey
46:56she
46:56has
46:56to
46:56find
46:57out
46:57if
46:57she
46:57escaped
46:57there
46:57is
46:58a
46:58sliver
46:58of
46:58hope
46:58but
46:59also
46:59what
47:00could
47:00have
47:00happened
47:00to
47:00Noor
47:02So
47:02what
47:03did
47:03happen
47:04to
47:04Noor
47:05If
47:06she
47:06wasn't
47:07killed
47:07at
47:07Natsviler
47:08could
47:08Noor
47:09still
47:09be
47:10alive
47:11Vera
47:12has
47:13to
47:13uncover
47:13the
47:14truth
47:27She
47:28I
47:36had
47:37her
47:37to
47:37is
47:37to
47:37a
47:37want
47:38to
47:54going
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