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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.
06:19They have to be able to đ Testing of both windows in transition lane,
06:21and her body has to be able to get out the same contact zone.
06:21That she's my face on the island throne.
06:23That she's going to take the sincerest from Mootoo to pick her place.
06:26She's a very doomed.
06:27Trashhuber has to be sure.
06:27Hopefully the milliarden,
06:27there may be truly no choice in heresyぁ or anything.
06:27Maybe her bud than us.
06:42This one
06:46She had the name Violet
06:52And
06:54What happened to her?
06:59All three were 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 and 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
08:28Missing
08:30Presumed dead
08:31Vera would have felt
08:33Shocks and 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
09:17Vera is in a very difficult position
09:19Because the fact that
09:20There 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
09:32Your 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
09:41Effectively
09:42They were meant to be
09:43Completely deniable
09:44If they were captured
09:46Or caught
09:46Or indeed killed
09:52But there remain
09:53Other spies
09:54Who are unaccounted for
09:56Like Noor Inayat Khan
09:59Who, with two other agents
10:01Was last seen
10:02At the Natzweiler camp
10:03In the mountains
10:04Of 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
10:16But 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
10:50Daigler
10:52Vera Atkins
10:54Good to finally meet you
10:56And you, sir
10:57Yes
11:01Barkworth
11:02Has offered
11:03Vera the 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
11:27Vera
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 gassing
11:49Were two english
11:51And two french women
12:04They were brought
12:06To the cells
12:06In the crematorium
12:07Building
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
12:44Of
12:44Every breathing
12:46And low groaning
12:49Next two women
12:51We heard
12:52The same noises
12:53And
12:54Regular groans
12:56But the fourth
12:58She resisted
13:00In the corridor
13:03I heard her say
13:05Why?
13:07Why?
13:09Why?
13:11Why?
13:15Why?
13:24Why?
13:26Why?
13:27Why?
13:28Why?
13:29Why?
13:29Why?
13:30Why?
13:31Why?
13:32Why?
13:32Why?
13:32Why?
13:32Why?
13:33Why?
13:34Why?
13:37Why?
14:02V-ra now has a witness statement that she can use at the upcoming Natsviler
14:08war crimes trial. A testimony identifying that some of V-ra's agents, including Noor,
14:16were killed at the camp. But even with Berg's testimony, this is only one man's recollection.
14:24V-ra needs more evidence. V-ra continues her preparation for the Natsviler war crimes trial.
14:37Thanks to Barkworth, she now has Berg's testimony and other witness statements.
14:43But V-ra lacks a critical piece of evidence if she wants to convict those who ran Natsviler.
14:51V-ra needed hard evidence. If she wants to bring those perpetrators to justice,
14:58she needs to gather enough of the hard evidence that will stand up in a court of law to actually
15:06bring them to justice. V-ra needs documentary evidence. Something that ties those who ran
15:14the camp with her missing agents. So V-ra tries to find documents that show which of her agents
15:22were murdered at Natsviler. Four 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. We don't have any. I can't imagine that.
15:47The French. When they came, they destroyed everything. Smashed it all up.
15:56All gone.
15:59Fräulein Becker tells V-ra that all the prison documents were destroyed by the French.
16:05Now, that reeks of a lie. V-ra 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?
16:25V-ra chooses to visit Becker again.
16:29This time, with the S.A.S.
16:41At Karlsruher prison, Barkworth and V-ra confront Fräulein Becker.
16:47Where are they?
16:50Where are what?
16:51The records!
16:52I don't know.
16:54I know you know. Where are they?
16:56I don't know!
16:59Search of it! All of it!
17:04You said the French destroyed everything.
17:06They did.
17:06Why would they do that?
17:07I don't know!
17:09Because you lie!
17:12Mom!
17:15What do we have here, huh?
17:16I don't know.
17:20The records.
17:23You lie.
17:26The records.
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, four women agents are transferred from the prison at Karlsruhe
18:03to the concentration camp at Natsweiler.
18:10This corroborates what Berg told Vera about four agents who were killed at Natsweiler.
18:23Vera now has clear evidence that four women agents were murdered.
18:29The names are Andre Borel, Vera Lee, Diana Roden, and Sonja Olshineski.
18:42The fourth name, Sonja Olshineski, is unknown to Vera.
18:49Vera expected to see Noor's name or alias.
18:55Witnesses had identified Noor as travelling with this group to Natsweiler.
19:01Noor was born in Moscow, so a Russian-sounding alias could make sense.
19:09For Vera, Sonja Olshineski's entry, taken with other evidence, is actually for Noor Inayat Khan.
19:19Vera has written evidence that four SOE women, including Noor Inayat Khan,
19:25are transported from Karlsruhe to Natsweiler and most likely killed there.
19:32She can now take the evidence to trial.
19:40The 29th of May, 1946.
19:44The Natsweiler war crimes trial begins in Vorpital, in the west of Germany.
19:51The Natsweiler trial would have been so important to Vera,
19:55and it was her other chance to get information about the women,
19:58so she could provide that to the families and their close ones,
20:01but also to bring these men to justice.
20:06This was the most brutal execution, murder, in fact, of these women.
20:12It didn't need to be done in such a horrific manner, if at all.
20:17This will be a British-led trial, with Nazis tried on German soil,
20:25a trial about one of the Nazis' specially hidden concentration camps in the mountains of France.
20:34Natsweiler isn't particularly well known, but it was in microcosm the system of the concentration camps set up in Germany,
20:42and in this case in France, it was a camp of 22,000 deaths, around 55,000 people held, went
20:49through Natsweiler,
20:50so relatively small compared to some of the other concentration camps in the Reich.
20:54But nevertheless, a system of tremendous brutality, slave labor, medical experimentation, oppression, violence,
21:01the capo system, a terrible, terrible place.
21:08But before the trial starts, Vera receives a blunt instruction from her new boss, Norman Mott.
21:15Vera, everything, and I mean everything, has been done in London to keep this disgusting business out of the newspapers.
21:28I need you to ensure that the press's interest is discouraged.
21:33And to our reputations, any good?
21:37I understand.
21:42I suggest you start by getting the names of the dead, withheld 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, which is best buried.
22:24The Natsweiler trial would have been a troubling time for Vera,
22:28not only because of hearing the dreadful incidences and details of what had happened,
22:34but also that SOE was still a secretive organisation.
22:36People were not aware that women had been sent into the fields in violation of the Geneva Convention.
22:46And she probably worried not only if their names got out into the press what had happened to them,
22:51but there was questions we start to raise about who had sent them,
22:55why had they sent them, why had this been allowed to happen.
23:01After four days of hearings, the verdicts are delivered to the accused.
23:15Werner Roder, the medical officer who injected the women, is given a death sentence.
23:28Peter Straub, SS officer in charge of the executions,
23:33Peter Straub, SS officer in charge of the executions, is given 13 years in prison.
23:36Later that year, he is given a death sentence.
23:48The verdict of the Natsweiler trial was that the three men who were on trial for the murder of these
23:54SOE women were all found guilty.
23:56So, in some respects, that's a very positive outcome.
24:00She had proved that this murder was unlawful, this execution, as they called it.
24:05But then the sentences may have been a bittersweet moment.
24:09Did Vera want an eye for an eye at this point?
24:11Did she want to see these men suffer and pay the ultimate price?
24:15Or was she just happy to have received the guilty verdict?
24:18She was a very straightforward woman,
24:20and I think she would have been just pleased to have seen these men go down for what they'd done.
24:28Vera secures the agreement of the court that the names of the dead will be withheld from publication.
24:36Thanks to Vera's work, the trial fails to create Mott's much-feared newspaper sensation.
24:44Vera's role in the affair remains out of the public eye.
24:49For now.
24:57Vera turns her attention to her final three women spies from Karlsruhe,
25:03who are unaccounted for.
25:06Yolande Beekman,
25:08Eliane Plumann,
25:09and Madeleine Damermont.
25:16Vera comes across an interrogation statement
25:19taken by American investigators
25:21of Gestapo soldiers stationed 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 match those of Vera's unaccounted agents,
25:52and Vassmer's detailed description of one woman
25:56matches Madeleine Damermont.
26:03At Dachau,
26:05Vassmer reportedly tells his colleagues
26:07that he pronounced the death sentence on the women,
26:11and that they were then killed.
26:16But can Vera be sure?
26:20Other Gestapo soldiers claim 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 different prison
26:31called Pforzheim,
26:33not Karlsruhe,
26:34as Vassmer states.
26:36One of the problems that Vera has,
26:38and indeed all of the people involved
26:40in the war crimes trials have,
26:42is the veracity of the witnesses.
26:44Because when she got testimony
26:46or drawings
26:48or verification
26:50from her own side,
26:52her own agents
26:53or people who were also in the camps
26:54and said they saw three 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 that 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 often
27:15to 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.
27:45August 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
28:14get 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,
28:25you know,
28:25if you show somebody
28:25a photograph,
28:27you know when 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.
28:40Your name is Max Vassmer,
28:43correct?
28:46Yes.
28:49And you transported women
28:51from Karlsruhe Prison
28:52to Dachau,
28:54correct?
28:57Correct.
29:11Yes.
29:15And then you watched
29:16as 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 know
29:54that 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?
30:39Three women.
30:41Vasma 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
30:53proof
30:53that her SOE
30:54agents,
30:55Jolande Beekman,
30:57Eliane Plumann
30:59and Madeleine
31:00Darmamore
31:00are killed
31:02at Dachau.
31:05Vera,
31:06after interviewing
31:07Max Vasma,
31:08now has
31:09everybody
31:09accounted for.
31:10She knows
31:11exactly where
31:12all of her agents
31:13ended 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 evidence
31:38to account
31:39for every one
31:39of her lost
31:40women spies
31:41alive or dead.
31:46she writes
31:47up a report
31:48for London
31:48closing the
31:50case.
31:52Of the 39
31:53women
31:54Vera sent
31:55to war,
31:5627
31:57returned
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.
32:17she encloses
32:18draft letters
32:19to be sent
32:20to the
32:20women's
32:20next of kin.
32:22Details
32:23of their
32:23names
32:23to be
32:24completed
32:24in London.
32:28It is
32:28with the
32:29deepest regret
32:30that I have
32:30to inform
32:31you that
32:32your daughter
32:32was killed
32:33in the
32:34early hours
32:34of the
32:3513th
32:35of September
32:361944
32:37in the
32:39camp
32:39of Dachau.
32:40According
32:41to what is
32:42believed
32:42to be a
32:42reliable
32:43report,
32:44she was
32:44shot through
32:45the back
32:45of the
32:46head
32:46and death
32:47was
32:47immediate.
32:49The body
32:49was cremated
32:50in the
32:51camp
32:51crematorium.
32:53Vera does
32:54succeed
32:55in discovering
32:56the fate
32:57of the
32:5712
32:58missing
32:58women
32:59agents
32:59and in
33:01the
33:01family.
33:01that sense
33:01there is
33:02closure for
33:03her.
33:03She has
33:04succeeded in
33:05discovering what's
33:06happened to all
33:06of them.
33:07But also it means
33:09that she can write
33:10to the families
33:11and personally
33:12and personally tell
33:12them what's
33:13happened and
33:15she carries
33:15that for the
33:16rest of her
33:17life.
33:18What you
33:18find later
33:19in life
33:20is some
33:20of the
33:21children
33:21of the
33:22agents who
33:23died in
33:23action
33:24actually seek
33:24her out.
33:25They travel
33:25from across
33:26the world
33:26because she's
33:28the one
33:28tangible
33:29physical
33:30link
33:31with those
33:32agents.
33:33and so
33:34she assumes
33:34a really
33:35important role
33:36not only
33:37immediately
33:38after
33:39investigations
33:40but for
33:41the rest
33:41of her
33:42life.
33:42She's the
33:43one that
33:44carries
33:44their
33:44memory.
33:49Vera
33:49has finally
33:50uncovered the
33:51fate of
33:52her missing
33:52women and
33:54prepares to
33:54leave
33:55Germany.
34:00With this
34:01part of her
34:02mission over
34:02Vera will
34:04return to
34:04England.
34:12Now she
34:14must answer
34:15the hardest
34:16question.
34:18How did
34:20it all go
34:21so wrong?
34:33Vera must
34:34now uncover
34:35why so
34:36many of
34:37her agents
34:37were captured
34:38and how
34:39the Nazi
34:40intelligence
34:40service
34:41seemed to
34:42infiltrate
34:43SOE's
34:43agent
34:44networks
34:44so
34:45successfully.
34:46When
34:47Vera returns
34:48to England
34:48there's a
34:49niggling
34:50doubt in
34:50her mind
34:51that perhaps
34:52they have
34:53been betrayed,
34:55she has been
34:55betrayed,
34:56perhaps there
34:57was a
34:58spy within
34:59the SOE,
35:00perhaps there
35:01was somebody
35:01betraying them
35:02all,
35:02all along.
35:06And the
35:07most terrifying
35:08fear starts to
35:09take hold of
35:10her, that
35:10somebody very
35:11close to her,
35:12somebody who
35:12she has to
35:13have worked
35:13with at SOE
35:15itself,
35:15might have
35:16actually betrayed
35:17her.
35:17And she has to
35:18start thinking,
35:19did I send
35:20these agents
35:22out to their
35:23depths?
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
35:33is the
35:33head of
35:34Nazi security
35:35in France,
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,
36:01SAS 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
36:33Goertz.
36:40Goertz
36:41worked as
36:41one of
36:42Kiefer's
36:42lead
36:43counter-intelligence
36:44officers.
36:46Dr.
36:47Goertz
36:47works in
36:48Abneufoch
36:49in the
36:50Sicherheitsdienst
36:51headquarters
36:51in Paris
36:52and he's
36:53an underling
36:54of SS
36:55Strömband
36:55for Kiefer
36:56from the
36:56Sicherheitsdienst
36:57and his
36:59job is
37:00effectively
37:00to engage
37:02in
37:02counter-espionage
37:03to collect
37:04the evidence,
37:06letters,
37:06documents
37:07from enemy
37:07agents
37:08and keep
37:09them,
37:09analyze them
37:10and then
37:10give that
37:11information
37:11forward back
37:12to Kiefer
37:13and inform
37:13him about
37:14what the
37:14agents
37:15are up to.
37:17There is
37:17one thing
37:18Goertz
37:18is especially
37:19good at
37:20which is
37:21fooling the
37:21British
37:21with fake
37:22radio
37:23transmissions.
37:28London was
37:29oblivious that
37:30agents had
37:31been captured
37:33and that
37:34Goertz was
37:34using information
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 basically
37:44a game
37:45that they
37:45were playing
37:46with the
37:47British
37:47by sending
37:48them false
37:49messages
37:49through their
37:50own wireless
37:51transmitters.
37:51So when you'd
37:52capture an agent
37:53it'd be taken
37:54back to
37:54Avenue Fough
37:55and they'd
37:56been interrogated
37:57and their
37:57actual transmitter
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
38:05back to
38:05London
38:06and get
38:07them to do
38:07all sorts
38:08of things
38:08that they
38:08wanted to do.
38:09Make them
38:09think their
38:10agents were
38:10still okay
38:10and hadn't
38:11been detained
38:12or indeed
38:13give them
38:13false
38:14messages
38:14about what
38:15was happening
38:15in the war
38:16that would
38:16get passed
38:17up the
38:17chain
38:17to
38:17Winston
38:18Churchill
38:18and affect
38:19the war.
38:22Gertz is
38:22one of
38:23thousands
38:23of suspected
38:24war criminals
38:25arrested
38:26after the
38:26war.
38:27But when
38:28it is
38:28discovered
38:29that he
38:29is the
38:30radio
38:30mastermind
38:31at
38:31Avenue
38:31Fosh
38:32he is
38:33sent to
38:33England
38:33for
38:34further
38:34interrogation.
38:38Funkspiel
38:39that's what
38:40we called
38:40it
38:41the radio
38:42game
38:44and London
38:45was very
38:45bad at
38:46it.
38:48We would
38:49impersonate
38:50one of
38:50your agents
38:52ask
38:52questions
38:54and London
38:55would give
38:55us the
38:55answer
38:56with a
38:57little
38:58slap
38:59on the
38:59wrist.
39:01Please
39:02use your
39:02security
39:02code
39:03next
39:03time.
39:11London
39:12was a
39:12joke.
39:14When the
39:15agents
39:15we
39:15captured
39:16knew
39:16how much
39:17we knew
39:17already
39:19well
39:20they simply
39:21gave up.
39:24What did
39:25you do
39:25once the
39:26agents
39:26were caught?
39:29We
39:31interrogated
39:32them
39:33for more
39:34personal
39:35information.
39:37More?
39:39Kiefer
39:40told
39:41your
39:41agents
39:42that we
39:43knew
39:43all their
39:44secrets
39:44already
39:45and if
39:46they wanted
39:47to live
39:48well
39:49they'd
39:51have to
39:51collaborate
39:52with him.
39:55How did
39:56Kiefer
39:57know
39:57so much?
39:59Personal
39:59information
40:00was never
40:01shared
40:01by radio.
40:03No.
40:04Not
40:05by radio.
40:08The only
40:09personal
40:09information
40:10was sent
40:11by...
40:11By
40:11mail.
40:21Gertz
40:22reveals
40:22that Kiefer
40:23somehow
40:24gets
40:24access
40:25to
40:25personal
40:26letters
40:26that
40:27Vera's
40:28agents
40:28send
40:28from
40:29France
40:29back
40:30home
40:30to
40:31England.
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 they
40:52didn't have
40:52a chance
40:53when the
40:53agents
40:54had dropped
40:54into
40:54France.
40:55The Germans
40:55know exactly
40:56who's coming
40:57and when
40:57and that
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.
41:45is the
41:47codename
41:48for
41:48French
41:49agent
41:50Henri
41:51Deracore.
41:59How lovely
42:00to see you.
42:01The man
42:02SOE had
42:03trusted
42:03with the
42:03safety
42:04of their
42:04agents
42:05appears
42:06to be
42:06a traitor.
42:09Deracore
42:10had already
42:11been recalled
42:11to London
42:12by Buckmaster
42:13and Boddington
42:14after allegations
42:15of collaborating
42:16with the
42:17Nazis.
42:19Deracore
42:20pleaded
42:20his innocence
42:21and after
42:22an investigation
42:24Don't worry
42:24Deracore
42:25we'll clear
42:26this whole
42:26sorry business
42:27up.
42:28Thanks sir.
42:29He is
42:29cleared.
42:32Vera
42:33is put
42:33in a
42:34position
42:34where she
42:35either
42:35believes
42:36a Nazi
42:36or a
42:37possible
42:38double
42:38agent.
42:39Henri
42:39Deracore
42:40is in
42:40the
42:40heart
42:41of the
42:41SOE.
42:42He
42:42is one
42:43of their
42:43own.
42:44This
42:44is a
42:45man
42:45that she
42:45hands
42:46over
42:46her
42:46agents
42:47to.
42:47How
42:47could
42:47she
42:47possibly
42:48believe
42:49that he
42:49could be
42:49a double
42:50agent?
42:50He
42:50was cleared.
42:51I mean
42:51surely
42:52everybody
42:52knows
42:53him.
42:54But how
42:54did the
42:55Nazis
42:55know so
42:56much?
42:57How
42:57is it
42:58possible?
42:58And here
42:59is
42:59Goertz
43:00saying
43:00well
43:01you
43:01know
43:01this.
43:02I'm
43:02telling
43:03you
43:03the
43:03truth.
43:04And
43:04it
43:04must
43:05have
43:05been
43:05such
43:06a
43:06worm
43:06in
43:07her
43:07mind.
43:08Was
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
43:17Goertz?
43:19One
43:20of the
43:20problems
43:20with
43:21trying
43:21to tease
43:22out
43:22a spy
43:23is that
43:24you
43:24have to
43:24trust
43:25people
43:25that
43:25you
43:25don't
43:25trust.
43:26And in
43:27this
43:27case
43:27she's
43:28talking
43:28to
43:28people
43:28like
43:28Dr.
43:29Goertz
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
43:42like
43:43Dr.
43:43Goertz?
43:44So
43:44these
43:45doubts
43:45are
43:46also
43:46in
43:46her
43:46mind.
43:47What
43:47does
43:48she
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
44:24she
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
44:34LaGravre,
44:35a member
44:35of the
44:36French
44:36resistance.
44:39LaGravre
44:40writes
44:40that in
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.
44:59She
44:59was
44:59very
45:00unhappy.
45:02Her
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.
45:25It
45:25was
45:25this
45:26Nora
45:27Baker
45:27Radio
45:28Center
45:29Officer
45:29Service
45:30RAF
45:304 Taveston
45:31Street
45:32London.
45:33I
45:34kept
45:34the address
45:35on a piece
45:35paper
45:36paper
45:36sewn
45:36of
45:36paper
45:36into my
45:36hand.
45:39Nora
45:40Inayat
45:40Khan
45:41had
45:41been
45:41recruited
45:42as
45:42a
45:42wireless
45:43operator
45:43from
45:44the
45:44WAF
45:44the
45:45women's
45:45division
45:46of
45:46the
45:46RAF.
45:494 Taveston
45:50Street
45:50London
45:50had
45:51once
45:51been
45:52her
45:52family's
45:52home
45:53and
45:54Nora
45:54Baker
45:55had
45:56once
45:56been
45:57her
45:57alias.
46:10Vera
46:10believes
46:11the
46:11prisoner
46:11LaGrav
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
46:20then
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
46:24Natsweiler
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
46:39Natsweiler
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
46:49manage
46:49to
46:49get
46:50out
46:50what
46:50happened
46:57there is
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
47:07Natsweiler
47:08could
47:08Noor
47:09still
47:09be
47:10alive
47:11Vera
47:12has
47:13to
47:13uncover
47:13the
47:14truth
47:28to
47:30noor
47:30to
47:30and
47:50to
47:52her
47:52to
47:53her
47:57she
47:57has
47:57all
47:57to
47:57her
47:57to
47:57her
47:57and
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