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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.
06:33The
06:35The
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
13:06I'll hear you
13:09going to be
13:09hi
13:09ah
13:19oh
13:34What's this?
13:34I'll see you
13:35apparue
14:02Vira now has a witness statement.
14:05That she can use at the upcoming Natsweiler war crimes trial.
14:10A testimony identifying that some of Vira's agents, including Noor, were killed at the camp.
14:18But even with Berg's testimony, this is only one man's recollection.
14:24Vira needs more evidence.
14:30Vira continues her preparation for the Natsweiler war crimes trial.
14:37Thanks to Barkworth, she now has Berg's testimony and other witness statements.
14:43But Vira lacks a critical piece of evidence if she wants to convict those who ran Natsweiler.
14:51Vira 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.
15:08Vira needs documentary evidence, something that ties those who ran the camp with her missing agents.
15:18So Vira 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.
15:43We 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.
16:05Now, 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?
16:25Vera chooses to visit Becker again.
16:29This time, with the S.A.S.
16:41At Karlsruher prison, Barkworth and Vera confront Fräulein Becker.
16:47Where are they?
16:50Where are what?
16:51The records.
16:52I don't know.
16:54I know you know.
16:55Where are they?
16:56I 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.
17:09Because you lie.
17:12Mom.
17:15What do we have here, huh?
17:16I don't know.
17:20The records.
17:23You lie.
17:26Liar!
17:28The records.
17:34You lie.
17:41Liar!
17:49They did.
17:56You lie.
18:09But if you lie.
18:12told Vera about four agents who were killed at Natsweiler.
18:23Vera now has clear evidence that four women agents were murdered.
18:28The names are Andre Borrell, Vera Lee, Diana Roden, and Sonja Olszunewski.
18:42The fourth name, Sonja Olszunewski, 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 Olszunewski's entry, taken with other evidence, is actually for Noor in Ayat Khan.
19:19Vera has written evidence that four SOE women, including Noor in Ayat Khan, are transported
19:26from Karlsruhe to Natsweiler and most likely killed there.
19:32She can now take the evidence to trial.
19:40The 29th of May, 1946.
19:43The Natsweiler war crimes trial begins in Vorpital in the west of Germany.
19:51The Natsweiler trial would have been so important to Vera, and it was her other chance to get
19:56information about the women so 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.
20:11It 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, but under international law.
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
20:40camps set up in Germany, and in this case in France. It was a camp of 22,000 deaths, around
20:4755,000 people
20:48held, went through Natsweiler, so relatively small compared to some of the other concentration camps in
20:53the Reich. But nevertheless, a system of tremendous brutality, slave labor, medical experimentation,
21:00oppression, violence, the 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
21:26out of the newspapers. I 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. They want to know what happened.
22:00Too bad. It's a disgusting business which is best buried.
22:24The Natsweiler trial would have been a troubling time for Vera, not only because of hearing the
22:30dreadful incidences and details of what had happened, but also that SOE was still a secretive
22:36organisation. People were not aware that women had been sent into the fields in violation of the
22:42Geneva Convention.
22:46And she probably worried not only if their names got out into the press,
22:50what had happened to them, but there was questions to be start to raised 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, is given 13 years in prison.
23:36Later that year, he is given a death sentence.
23:41Fritz Hardenstein, the commandant of Natsweiler, is imprisoned for life.
23:48The verdict of the Natsweiler trial was that the three men who were
23:52on trial for the murder of these SOE women were all found guilty. So in some respects,
23:58that's a very positive outcome. She had proved that this murder was unlawful, this execution,
24:04as they called it. But then the sentences may have been a bittersweet moment. Did Vera want an eye
24:10for an eye at this point? Did she want to see these men suffer and pay the ultimate price?
24:14Or was she just happy to have received the guilty verdict? She 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. For now.
24:57Vera turns her attention to her final three women spies from Karlsruhe, who are unaccounted for.
25:06Yolande Beekman, Eliane Plumann, and Madeleine Damermont.
25:16Vera comes across an interrogation statement taken by American investigators of Gestapo soldiers
25:23stationed in the town of Karlsruhe.
25:34One soldier, Max Vassmer, recalls transporting women prisoners from Karlsruhe to Dachau concentration camp.
25:46The ranks of three of the women match those of Vera's unaccounted agents.
25:53And Vassmer's detailed description of one woman matches Madeleine Damermont.
26:03At Dachau, Vassmer reportedly tells his colleagues that 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, not three, like Vassmer says.
26:26They also claim that one of the women came from a completely different prison,
26:31called Pforzheim, not Karlsruhe, as Vassmer states.
26:36One of the problems that Vera has, and indeed all of the people involved in the war crimes trials have,
26:42is the veracity of the witnesses.
26:44Because when she got testimony or drawings or verification from her own side, her own agents,
26:53or people who were also in the camps and said they saw three women or four women who came into
26:58the camp,
26:59she can believe them.
27:00They may not remember everything, but at least she knows that they're being honest.
27:04But when you're relying on the testimony of an SS officer or a capo who's worked in the camp,
27:10they're also self-interested.
27:11They also want to exonerate themselves.
27:13And so it's very difficult often to know if they're telling the truth.
27:17And so even though she gets the Vassmer testimony,
27:20and she thinks she's got some solid information about what's happened to her final three agents,
27:25she can't really be sure, particularly when then she gets contradictory evidence.
27:31Can Vera trust Vassmer's testimony in the report?
27:36Vera has to find Vassmer and interrogate him herself.
27:45It's very difficult to find her, but it's very difficult to find her.
27:45August 1946.
27:49After months of searching, Vera tracks Vassmer down
27:53to internment camp number 74 in Ludwigsberg, Germany.
28:01Vera is the only one who knows all three SOE agents.
28:05She knows them intimately, and Max Vassmer says that he thinks he's identified them.
28:11Now, this is a huge big deal because Vera can actually get the man in front of her
28:15and determine whether these women were different women or were her agents.
28:20And, you know, being there and able to speak to somebody about it,
28:24where you know, you know, if you show somebody a photograph,
28:26you know when they go, that's definitely the person,
28:28or I think that's the person.
28:30And it's all to do with intonation.
28:31It's all to do with being in the same room as someone.
28:33So for Vera, being in the same room as Max Vassmer is really important,
28:38so that she can interrogate him.
28:41Your name is Max Vassmer, correct?
28:46Yes.
28:49And you transported women from Karlsruhe Prison to Dachau, correct?
29:14And then you watched as they were shot, correct?
29:21No.
29:23I handed them over to the guards.
29:26This report clearly states that witnesses saw you take the women to be shot.
29:34Well, I was there, yes.
29:37I wasn't present at the end.
29:42The guards took the women in, not me.
29:46We just...
29:48We just did transport.
29:52Then how did others know that four women were killed?
29:56Three.
29:58Your report says four women.
30:02It was three.
30:05How can you be so sure?
30:07Because they gave me a receipt.
30:12A what?
30:16The next day, the guards gave me a receipt for three women spies shot dead.
30:23We needed it for bookkeeping back at Karlsruhe.
30:32Shall I describe them for you?
30:39Three women.
30:40Vassmer provides descriptions of three women transferred from Karlsruhe to Dachau that match Vera's records of three SOE women.
30:51Vera has sufficient proof that her SOE agents, Jolande Beekmann, Eliane Plumann and Madeleine Dahmermoor are killed at Dachau.
31:03It's just a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very much.
31:05Vera, after interviewing Max Vassmer, now has everybody accounted for.
31:10She knows exactly where all of her agents ended up.
31:14And there must have been a sort of wonderful sense of completion, but also this sort of tragic pang of
31:20knowing that there's nobody left to be saved.
31:23And just the horrific nature of their deaths.
31:25It must have been absolutely awful.
31:34Vera now believes she has sufficient evidence to account for every one of her lost women spies, alive or dead.
31:46She writes up a report for London, closing the case.
31:52Of the 39 women Vera sent to war, 27 returned alive.
32:00Many after sustained torture.
32:08Twelve lose their lives at the hands of the Nazis.
32:17She encloses draft letters to be sent to the women's next of kin.
32:22Details of their names to be completed in London.
32:28It is with the deepest regret that I have to inform you that your daughter was killed in the early
32:34hours of the 13th of September 1944 in the camp of Dachau.
32:40According to what is believed to be a reliable report, she was shot through the back of the head and
32:47death was immediate.
32:49The body was cremated in the camp crematorium.
32:53Vera does succeed in discovering the fate of the 12 missing women agents.
32:59And in that sense there is closure for her, she has succeeded in discovering what's happened to all of them.
33:07But also it means that she can write to the families and personally tell them what's happened.
33:14And she carries that for the rest of her life.
33:18What you find later in life is some of the children of the agents who died in action actually seek
33:24her out.
33:25They travel from across the world because she's the one tangible physical link with those agents.
33:33And so she assumes a really important role, not only immediately after investigations, but for the rest of her life,
33:42she's the one that carries their memory.
33:49Vera has finally uncovered the fate of her missing women and prepares to leave Germany.
34:00With this part of her mission over, Vera will return to England.
34:13Now, she must answer the hardest question.
34:32Vera must now uncover why so many of her agents were captured and how the Nazi intelligence service seemed to
34:42infiltrate SOE's agent networks so successfully.
34:47When Vera returns to England, there's a niggling doubt in her mind that perhaps they have been betrayed, she has
34:55been betrayed, perhaps there was a spy within the SOE, perhaps there was somebody betraying them all, all along.
35:06And the most terrifying fear starts to take hold of her, that somebody very close to her, somebody who she
35:12has to have worked with at SOE itself, might have actually betrayed her.
35:17And she has to start thinking, did I send these agents out to their deaths, were they being parachuted to
35:25or flown to the waiting arms of treachery?
35:31The man who is key to this is the head of Nazi security in France, Hans Kiefer, who is hiding
35:38somewhere in Germany.
35:42Find Kiefer, and you find the traitor.
35:58Vera passes a tip to her friend, SAS Major Bill Barkworth, that Kiefer might be hiding in his hometown of
36:05Garmisch in Bavaria.
36:12With Kiefer on the run, Vera turns to another leading Nazi to try and uncover how the Germans captured her
36:20women agents.
36:23He is the man who masterminded the Nazi radio operation in northern France, Dr. Josef Goertz.
36:40Goertz worked as one of Kiefer's lead counter-intelligence officers.
36:46Dr. Goertz works in Avenue Foch in the Sicherheitsdienst headquarters in Paris, and he's an underling of SS Sturbanfer or
36:56Kiefer from the Sicherheitsdienst.
36:58And his job is effectively to engage in counter-espionage, to collect the evidence, letters, documents from enemy agents, and
37:08keep them, analyze them, and then give that information forward back to Kiefer,
37:13and inform him about what the agents are up to.
37:17There is one thing Goertz is especially good at, which is fooling the British with fake radio transmissions.
37:28London was oblivious that agents had been captured,
37:33and that Goertz was using information tortured out of them to trick SOE into revealing intelligence about the agents' circuits.
37:43It's basically a game that they were playing with the British by sending them false messages through their own wireless
37:51transmitters.
37:51So when you'd capture an agent, it'd be taken back to Avenue Foch, and they had been interrogated, and their
37:57actual transmitter was kept.
37:59So that that meant that when they gave them the right codes, they could then give false messages back to
38:05London, and get them to do all sorts of things that they wanted to do, make them think that agents
38:10were still okay and hadn't been detained,
38:12or indeed give them false messages about what was happening in the war that would get passed up the chain
38:17to Winston Churchill and affect the war.
38:27But when it is discovered that he is the radio mastermind at Avenue Foch, he is sent to England for
38:34further interrogation.
38:38Funkspiel, that's what we called it, the radio game, and London was very bad at it.
38:48We would impersonate one of your agents, ask questions, and London would give us the answer, with a little slap
38:59on the wrist.
39:01Please use your security code next time.
39:11London was a joke.
39:14When the agents we captured knew how much we knew already, well, they simply gave up.
39:24What did you do once the agents were caught?
39:30We interrogated them for more personal information.
39:37More?
39:39Kiefer told your agents that we knew all their secrets already.
39:46And if they wanted to live, well, they'd have to collaborate with him.
39:55How did Kiefer know so much?
39:59Personal information was never shared by radio.
40:03No.
40:04Not by radio.
40:08The only personal information was sent by...
40:11By mail.
40:21Gertz reveals that Kiefer somehow gets access to personal letters that Vera's agents send from France back home to England.
40:37Uncoded letters full of private information.
40:43Vira discovers that Kiefer has actually had access to all of the mail from the agents.
40:50So they didn't have a chance when the agents had dropped into France.
40:55The Germans know exactly who's coming and when.
40:58And that realisation that the Germans were reading all the agents' mail must have been such a shocking revelation to
41:07Vera.
41:07And then it leads to the next question, who had betrayed them?
41:17How did Kiefer get the mail?
41:21Kiefer told me that he got it from Gilbert.
41:38Yes.
41:40I believe that's him.
41:46Gilbert is the codename for French agent Henri Deracore.
42:01The man SOE had trusted with the safety of their agents appears to be a traitor.
42:09Deracore had already been recalled to London by Buckmaster and Boddington after allegations of collaborating with the Nazis.
42:19Deracore pleaded his innocence and after an investigation...
42:23Don't worry, Deracore. We'll clear this whole sorry business up.
42:28Thanks, sir.
42:29He is cleared.
42:32Vera is put in a position where she either believes a Nazi or a possible double agent.
42:39Henri Deracore is in the heart of the SOE.
42:42He is one of their own.
42:44This is a man that she hands over her agents to.
42:47How could she possibly believe that he could be a double agent?
42:50He was cleared. I mean, surely everybody knows him.
42:54But how did the Nazis know so much?
42:57How is it possible?
42:58And here is Goertz saying, well, you know this.
43:02I'm telling you the truth.
43:04And it must have been such a worm in her mind.
43:07Was Deracore a spy? A double agent?
43:12So who is telling the truth? Deracore or Goertz?
43:19One of the problems with trying to tease out a spy is that you have to trust people that you
43:25don't trust.
43:26And in this case, she's talking to people like Dr. Goertz from the SD.
43:30And it's in his vested interest and has been for years to play cat and mouse games with the SOE
43:38and with people like Vera.
43:39And so she has to decide, well, can I trust somebody like Dr. Goertz?
43:43So these doubts are also in her mind.
43:47What does she really know?
43:54The only way for Vera to be sure is to find the mastermind for all Nazi intelligence in northern France,
44:02Hans Kiefer.
44:05A man who is on the run, hiding somewhere in Germany.
44:21But all of Vera's work comes into question when she receives a letter forwarded by her superior, Norman Mott.
44:31The letter is written by Yolande Lagrave, a member of the French resistance.
44:39Lagrave writes that in June 1943, she was arrested by the Gestapo and transferred to Pforzheim prison.
44:53I was able to correspond with an English parachutist who was locked up there also.
44:59She was very unhappy.
45:02Her hands and feet were chained and she was never allowed out.
45:07I heard the blows which she received from the prison guards.
45:10She was taken away from Pforzheim in September 1944.
45:16Before she left, she had been able to send me, not her name because it was too dangerous, but her
45:21alias.
45:22And she also wrote down her address for me.
45:25It was this.
45:26Nora Baker, Radio Centre Officers Service, RAF, 4 Taveston Street, London.
45:33I kept the address on a piece of paper sewn into my hand.
45:39Noor Inayat Khan had been recruited as a wireless operator from the WAF, the women's division of the RAF.
45:484 Taveston Street, London had once been her family's home, and Nora Baker had once been her alias.
46:10Vera believes the prisoner La Grave writes about is Noor.
46:15And if Noor had been held at Pforzheim until September 1944, then there is no way she could have been
46:23one of the four women killed at Natsweiler in July 1944.
46:29When Vera learns about Noor's fate and the fact that she's gone to Pforzheim, it's such a mix of emotions.
46:35Because here she thought, she's written to the family, that Noor has been killed in Natsweiler.
46:40She has internalised that now, dealt with that, thought there's been some closure.
46:45And now this has opened up something else.
46:47Could Noor be alive? Did she manage to get out? What happened to her?
46:51So she is in a space where now she has to find out the final journey.
46:56She has to find out if she escaped, there is a sliver of hope, but also what could have happened
47:00to Noor.
47:02So what did happen to Noor?
47:05If she wasn't killed at Natsweiler, could Noor still be alive?
47:11Vera has to uncover the truth.
47:38Hello, Justine, we'll go to Natsweiler.
47:39This is a series of nine minutes.
47:43The next episode is Natsweiler.
47:43You've got to find out if you want to find out natsweiler.
47:43You've got to find out if you're doing something.
47:50Let's find out if none of those things are possible.
47:54Go to Natsweiler.
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