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00:03In the Second World War, British spy agency, the SOE, send more and more female agents behind enemy lines.
00:20With D-Day on the horizon, these women, handpicked by spymaster Vera Atkins,
00:27make daring attacks against Hitler's troops from deep inside Nazi-occupied France.
00:41But, as the Allies push towards Paris,
00:46the Gestapo brutally cracks down.
00:50Unfortunately, some of your agents had to be shot.
00:57What the hell are they playing at?
00:59One by one, Vera's women disappear.
01:03We can't be captured.
01:08Hide what you can, then hide yourself.
01:13We go now. Move!
01:15Halt!
01:29You go. I'll send them off as long as I can. Go! Go!
01:39But, with France liberated, and the Nazis defeated, many are still missing.
01:47Vera's mission was to send these women to war.
01:52Now, she'll do whatever it takes to find them and bring them home.
02:11The Allied invasion of Europe to recapture France from the Nazis has begun.
02:17ritical
02:35N Pl vulnerability
02:36Across France, the French resistance, supplied and coordinated by SOE, launch into action.
02:49in london f-section monitor the sabotage activity
02:56there's palpable excitement buckmaster and vera are watching as these messages come in
03:03there's already been acts of sabotage trying to disrupt the train lines trying to disrupt
03:08communication lines blow up bridges blowing up telephone exchanges to try and disrupt the
03:14Germans as much as possible it's chaotic but it's exhilarating in the flurry of messages coming
03:24in from their agents they receive one that is unusual sir message from Paul sign Leopold Leopold
03:37Leopold is inactive he was arrested in 43
03:42thank you for the large delivery of weapons and ammunition incredibly grateful for the
03:47information on your plans and objectives
03:52signed the gestapo
04:00it's not the only message f-section received that day from the nazis feared secret police
04:11another thank you for the supply drop equipment gratefully received unfortunately some of your
04:18agents had to be shot others were more open to do what we asked the gestapo what the hell are
04:28they
04:28playing at send a reply sorry to see your nerves are shot and your resilience isn't as strong as ours
04:54still SOE circuits and french resistance fighters continue their clandestine attacks against the nazis
05:06and the allied soldiers fight their way ashore
05:10but their position is precarious they need to firm up their hold of the beachhead
05:18and be ready for when german reinforcements hit back
05:30work at f-section doesn't stop wireless messages of german targets being hit continue to stream in
05:42sabotage by those SOE networks was absolutely crucial during d-day and the germans were so angry at the
05:52this success that an order went out to hunt down vera's agents
06:00just days after d-day f-section received news on one of their agents recently parachuted into france
06:10fuck
06:13violette sabo has been captured
06:17violette is already a widow she's got a two-year-old daughter
06:21and the thought that violette might not come back is just unthinkable
06:28where
06:31the report is brief
06:36does it say where she's being held
06:41just says captured
06:43nothing else
06:58in the limousine region of france resistance fighters pull off an audacious mission
07:05they have kidnapped the commander of the second ss panzer division
07:10that's right
07:12and of course the nazis are furious about this they want their commander back
07:17and so they start to ramp up their control of the area they put in roadblocks
07:23trying to capture resistance members and they start to punish the resistance for what they've done
07:30the nazis are out for revenge and choose the village of uradour sur glen to send a bloody message to
07:38the french people
07:44in london f-section monitor sabotage attacks across france
07:50they've hit another fuel depot
07:53good
07:54their tanks are thirsty beasts
07:56they'll be running on fumes by the time they reach normandy
07:59if they may get that far
08:03but soon
08:04news of the massacre reaches buckmaster
08:07sir a report from france
08:10you need to read it now
08:11thank you
08:19buck
08:25what is it
08:29the ss
08:33the resistance captured their commander
08:41they massacred a village
08:44what?
08:48over 600 dead
08:50women
08:52children
09:01i thought the germans had honor
09:03that they acted like gentlemen
09:08look
09:12i never thought they'd do something like this
09:22the news of the massacre at orador sur glen
09:25really is shocking for buckmaster
09:28that the germans have sunk so low
09:30that they'll massacre innocent women and children
09:35where did this happen
09:39buck where did this happen
09:50limousine
09:53limousine
09:55limousine
10:09limousine
10:13but no further information on violette has come through
10:27in northern france the allies consolidate their foothold in normandy
10:33and prepare to push out deeper into the country
10:37and prepare to push out deeper into the country
11:02the scholar circuit are requesting a supply drop to the juror region
11:10and she's been operating in france for about three months in the juror region which is to the east of
11:15france
11:16authorize the drop
11:20on the 25th of June 1944 32 flying fortresses were flown over by the RAF
11:29and they released 440 parachutes and attached to those parachutes were
11:35canisters full of weapons and explosives and arms and equipment needed by the
11:43resistance
11:44it's the largest daylight parachute drop of the war
11:48hidden at the drop zone
11:49is Yvonne with a team of resistance fighters
11:55it took 48 hours for those canisters to be emptied and for the equipment to be stored
12:01meaning that every minute and every hour that went by they were more and more at risk of being caught
12:07but Yvonne was so excited when this happened and she said as every one of those parachutes opened hope was
12:14attached to them
12:21after a frantic two days on the ground
12:25Yvonne and her team are exhausted
12:28with the last container collected they leave the drop zone and head back to their headquarters
12:46at F section messages from the circuits flood in
12:51targets are being hit the resistance are taking the fight to the Germans across the country
13:00but that's tinged with uncertainty
13:04what about the agents how many have survived how many have the Germans managed to capture
13:13then F section finally receives the report they've been waiting for
13:21Eva, what is it?
13:26Eva, what is it?
13:37they're driving to meet other SOE leaders
13:40but what they don't know is the resistance of course?
13:44one of the SS commanders of the 2nd Panzer Division
13:47and the Germans are frantic to get him back
13:49they start mounting roadblocks and they start searching people asking everybody for their papers
13:55where were they when this happened?
14:00No
14:01What?
14:03I thought you said this road was clear
14:07It was
14:08What?
14:09It was
14:10It's a new checkpoint
14:11They can't search us
14:13I know
14:13They can't search us
14:15If they search the car they'll find our weapons
14:16We have British weapons
14:19If they search the car they'll know we're resistance
14:26We can't be captured
14:28Stop the car
14:40We make for the woods
14:42Try to lose them
14:45We go now
14:46Move
14:50Halt
15:11As Violet's escaping
15:12She twists her ankle
15:14It was already damaged from the parachute drop she'd done
15:17During training as an SOE agent
15:30Are you hit?
15:31No
15:32It's my ankle
15:33Can you walk on it?
15:34No
15:35You go
15:36I'll fan them off as long as I can
15:39Go
15:40Go
15:42She's basically immobile at this point
15:44So she provides cover fire for the resistance men so that they can get away
16:04You go
16:05And theana
16:09I require a bolt
16:09So you do
16:09You go
16:09You go
16:12You go
16:38The report ends.
16:41Violet was held by the SS in the French city of Limoges, but has since disappeared.
16:52She is one of many agents now missing.
17:06Since D-Day, Allied forces have made steady gains against the Germans.
17:14Two months after the Normandy landings, the Nazis are forced to abandon the French capital.
17:26The liberation of Paris was the moment everybody had been waiting for.
17:31The relief of finally being able to be in the city and not be under German occupation just must have
17:37been phenomenal.
17:39With the Allies pushing deeper into France, what's left of SOE's circuits begin to lose their importance.
17:50Boddington is travelling, he's lecturing to Allied forces on the conditions in France.
17:57Buckmaster himself has set up in the Hotel Cecil in Paris.
18:01And he will then very quickly start a tour of the surviving circuits.
18:08At F section, work begins to slow down and staff start to leave.
18:16But disturbing reports are coming in about the fate of SOE's agents.
18:22Vera is tasked with making sense of them all.
18:26Goodbye, Miss Atkins.
18:28Sorry, Flight Officer Atkins.
18:32Yes, goodbye.
18:37But Vera, no longer a civilian and now commissioned in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, stays in London.
18:50Paris is back in Allied hands, but the victory came at a huge cost to SOE's agents.
18:59It was understood that the casualty numbers would be quite high, particularly surrounding the D-Day landings.
19:08Many more female agents had been sent out in 1944 than before.
19:14And this was Vera's responsibility.
19:17She's the one who's sent them to France in the first place.
19:21With Paris liberated, the human toll of this decision comes into focus.
19:29Of the more than 400 SOE agents dispatched to France, 118 are missing.
19:37Sixteen of them are Vera's women.
19:58After the liberation at the hotel where F section have set up a new office,
20:03a man turns up and he's angry.
20:06He's furious.
20:09Marcel Rousset, an F section agent with the code name Leopold,
20:14demands to see anyone in the British Secret Service.
20:22I'm sorry to interrupt, but do you think you could fetch someone from SOE for me?
20:26Now!
20:27He had been captured by the Gestapo and in fact it was even his radio that was used by the
20:32Gestapo
20:33to send the taunting signals to SOE headquarters on D-Day.
20:40Hello, I'm Nancy. How can I help?
20:42Sorry, I need a chance.
20:43I am...
20:43He is angry.
20:45He's absolutely furious at mistakes that SOE has made,
20:50that so many agents have been captured.
20:53Please take a seat here, sir.
20:56An SOE officer sits down with Rousset for a debriefing on his time in captivity.
21:02He might know who has actually been arrested by the Gestapo.
21:06He might know who has survived.
21:11Rousset says how stupid everyone at F section had been,
21:16particularly Buckmaster and Vera, and how they had risked agents' lives.
21:23The SD, Sicherheitsdienst, forced him to relay radio messages back to London.
21:29And he quite deliberately, totally follows SOE protocol,
21:34which is that he doesn't include special code words as a warning to SOE,
21:40but they just ignored this and continued to accept the messages that came from his radio as genuine.
21:49His interrogation report is explosive,
21:54and provides Vera with important leads to the whereabouts of her missing agents.
22:07At F section, Vera receives Rousset's interrogation report.
22:15After his arrest, he's taken to the SD headquarters in Paris,
22:21at 84 Avenue Foch.
22:27The SD is the SS intelligence agency,
22:32and worked hand in hand with the Gestapo.
22:35Here, Rousset is confronted with Prosper's wireless operator,
22:41Gilbert Norman, codenamed Butcher.
22:45It was Norman who told the Germans that Rousset was SOE,
22:50wireless operator, Leopold.
22:54And he also tells Rousset that the Gestapo know everything about SOE,
23:00and their activities.
23:06So, Sittal, who was the organizer of that circuit,
23:10and Norman, had given up everything about the Prosper's circuit in Paris,
23:16in order to try and save his life and maybe other agents' lives as well.
23:22Rousset is advised to do the same.
23:26Had he given up every piece of information?
23:29What had he told them?
23:31Can you imagine how awful it was for Vera?
23:34Just finding out that they could have revealed so much
23:37that every time Vera sent a woman over,
23:40she was just basically feeding them straight into the German prisons.
23:46In the Gestapo's cells, Rousset is held in solitary confinement.
23:53But, by tapping on the wall in Morse code,
23:56he manages to communicate with an SOE agent in the cell next to his.
24:02Rousset learns that a wireless operator with the codename Madeleine
24:06is also being held by the Nazis.
24:11Noor Inyat Khan goes under the codename Madeleine.
24:16Noor hadn't surfaced after the liberation of Paris.
24:22Vera assumed she'd been captured,
24:25but no further intel had been discovered.
24:31Rousset's report suggests
24:33that Noor had been in the Gestapo's prison in Paris.
24:39His report continues.
24:43From Paris, the women prisoners were then transferred to Germany.
24:49This is news to Vera.
24:52She wasn't aware that any female prisoners
24:55have been transferred to Germany.
24:57Where were they?
24:58Where have they gone?
25:01Could those women have been her agents?
25:03Could one of them have been Noor?
25:07Frustratingly, Rousset's intel now dries up.
25:12He remains in the Gestapo's prison,
25:14working as a cleaner until two days after D-Day.
25:20Noticing a gate unlocked,
25:23he knocks out a guard
25:25and makes his escape.
25:49Vera haunts the F-Section operations room,
25:54waiting for any news on her missing women spies.
26:01Then, a report comes in
26:04from a member of Yvonne Bazden's SOE circuit.
26:11After Yvonne and her colleagues had hidden all the equipment
26:14that had come in on this daylight parachute drop,
26:17they headed back to their headquarters.
26:22But soon after they arrive, everything changes.
26:28The Germans, they're coming.
26:31What?
26:32We spotted a patrol of German soldiers.
26:34They're heading for us.
26:35Do we have time to move?
26:37No.
26:39Hide what you can, then hide yourself.
26:53The Germans who arrived, they just heard a tip-off
26:56that this building might be of some interest
26:58and they're just going to do a cursory search.
27:25There is literally nobody in sight.
27:27They can't find anybody.
27:28So they leave, but they just leave behind one
27:31person.
27:33He's effectively watching it just in case something happens
27:36or somebody arrives.
27:37One can only imagine what would be going through the minds
27:40of Yvonne and her team as they are hiding,
27:43holding their breath, not moving,
27:45because they have to be totally quiet.
27:48And then the plumbing makes a noise.
27:57Hello?
27:59Is there anybody in there?
28:08I heard something.
28:10Keep searching.
28:32Keep searching.
28:43And when Laura perfect I play?
28:46This is a melody.
28:47In London, Vera scours allied intelligence reports,
28:51searching for any clues to her agents whereabouts.
28:57who survived where were they being held and where were they now she has cause for optimism
29:06some agents are surfacing after the liberation of Paris one of her agents Mary Herbert astonishingly
29:17has survived hiding in a farmhouse in France it gives Vera hope that some of the other women might
29:25still be alive but for those still missing few details are known f-section operations are all
29:36but wound down but Vera remains she is worried about her agents about the women she sent into
29:47the field she has to find out where they are the work is all-encompassing searching for any trace
30:01of where her agents were transported to in Germany and where they could be rescued from once the Allies
30:09are victorious in October British officials investigate 84 Avenue Foch the Nazis former
30:21intelligence headquarters in Paris some of her agents were held in captivity there by piecing
30:34together what happened there maybe she'll get some information about her lost agents I visited the
30:41torture chamber at Avenue Foch where Kiefer had an office Hans Kiefer was the head of the SD in Paris
30:55during the German occupation he's the man who convinced Gilbert Norman to reveal everything
31:03he knew about SOE operations Hans Kiefer would have been personally in charge of the SOE agents who
31:13were held at that prison Kiefer would have to have known first of all who was held in his prison
31:20and
31:20what happened to them the report continues I found a moving inscription from men and women who knew
31:33they had lost everything except their honor but I was informed during the last few days before the
31:40departure of the Germans that several people have been taken downstairs into the courtyard and shot
31:49it's a tragic revelation were her agents executed in this group
31:57she has to track down Kiefer he must know where Vera's agents are he must know what's happened to them
32:13in the meantime she has the agonizing task of updating the families of the missing agents on what is known
32:21about them before nor departed for France Vera had promised to send her mother periodic good news letters
32:33which she had but now the tone of these letters has to change from all the reports of Norse training
32:44everybody was saying that she wasn't ready but Paris needed a wireless operator and immediately she'd put
32:52this young woman into the jaws of the Gestapo
33:01Dear Mrs. Inayat Khan I am extremely sorry to have to inform you that we have recently lost touch with
33:08your daughter
33:09due to the confused state of affairs in France we were not unduly worried but I am afraid now your
33:15daughter must be considered as missing although there is every reason to believe that she will
33:22eventually be notified to us as a prisoner of war just the idea of writing letters to the family that's
33:29heartbreaking but Vera's got other issues that she has to worry about the British government was never
33:34very happy about sending women combatants overseas because they were not protected by the Geneva
33:40Convention and that meant the Nazis could do whatever they liked with them she also has fear about her
33:47own future because once it is revealed in the public that something has happened to these women she's
33:53also fearful about the consequences for her as the person who sent them out I would impress upon you in
34:04the interests of your daughter's safety that you make no inquiries with regard to her except through me
34:23by January 1945 the Allies are making steady gains and Nazi Germany is on its knees
34:42but many agents are still missing despite combing through any and all intelligence documents Vera's
34:52investigation finds no trace of them she now lobbies inside SOE
35:04what Vera wants to do as the Allies are moving through Germany is to give the names of her agents
35:09to the Allied troops so that when they liberate camps and prisoners of war they can see if any of
35:15her agents
35:15are prisoners they can rescue them at the height of F section operations Vera is Buckmaster's right-hand
35:22man she's right in the center of all of the major decisions but once F section is over and Buckmaster
35:29is
35:29gone it becomes incredibly difficult to convince anybody that her plight within SOE is worth pursuing
35:37particularly John Center the head of SOE security division and a commander in the Royal Navy
35:47Atkins yes sir a memo of yours just came across my desk yes sir a memo suggesting that we give
36:00out the
36:00names of our agents publish their names for the Red Cross the American army Soviet army yes sir so that
36:18once
36:18those forces begin liberating POW camps they will have a register of all of our missing agents
36:27atkins you do understand what we do here the work we did during the war yes sir but then you'll
36:36also
36:36understand the meaning of secret as in the term secret agent sir if I may flight officer Atkins let me
36:47remind
36:48you you you are addressing a commander in the Royal Navy sir the war is not yet over how long
37:03do you think it
37:03would be before the Germans also got to see those names why should we advertise who our agents are on
37:13a
37:13register for our enemies to see sir the Germans are spent this is our best chance of finding our agents
37:23women agents alive consider your request denied on security grounds he's wanting to find out where were the
37:39security leaks in SOE he's not interested in the fate of the missing agents stick with the welfare work
37:54Vera is stymied from trying to find her agents all she can do is just pick up on intelligence reports
37:59to
37:59find out what's happened to these agents because unless she finds out who well in March 1945 Vera receives a
38:14report by French investigators searching friend prison in Paris this is the Gestapo prison where people were
38:23held when they were not being interrogated and tortured and it indicates something really quite
38:28disturbing for Vera next to the name of one of the prisoners is N and N this means Nacht und
38:37Nebel or night and fog
38:39the Nacht und Nebel order was decreed by Hitler that people who have been involved in espionage or resistance
38:48are to him so despicable that they have to be punished in an extraordinary way not only will they be
38:56captured
38:57interrogated tortured and then killed but they're supposed to disappear without a trace they will
39:04disappear as into night and fog time is running out to find her missing women alive
39:20by April 1945 Germany is in total collapse the foreign office now they want to release the SOE agents names
39:32Vera is allowed to issue the names of her agents so that people liberating these prisoner of war camps can
39:40find
39:40them if they are found there is now a register for their return to Britain if they survived
40:06on the 30th of April 1945 with Berlin all but captured by the Red Army
40:15Hitler commits suicide
40:18Hitler commits suicide
40:23by the 8th of May the Allies accept Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender the war in Europe is over
40:48amid the celebrations in London Vera gets news that gives her hope her agents survived on the 20th of May
40:591945
41:00even based on captured and missing turns up at Euston station in London
41:12Miss Atkins how did you get here
41:31where are we going
41:34I'm taking you home your father is waiting
41:36my father
41:47my father
41:49from Euston station Vera takes Yvonne Bayston back to her family home in Brockwood Park in London
42:06me
42:07his father
42:07my father
42:12my father
42:13my father
42:18myse
42:19my father
42:19my father
42:24my family
42:26my father
42:26my father
42:26yes
42:26yes
42:36you look um weak let me make you something to eat
43:05what happened after you were captured did you see anyone else other agents
43:15uh uh yvonne i need you to think
43:28um after i was caught they sent me uh east to a uh to a prison to a place called
43:39starbrocken
43:43um that there i started seeing some some familiar faces agents i'd been in training with
43:54i saw they've got the hold of baker street
43:59i didn't talk to them i i i kept my distance
44:09you see i told the germans after they caught me that i was just an ordinary french girl
44:16caught in the wrong place at the wrong time that was my cover
44:20so i i had to keep my distance i i couldn't let the nazis know that i was an agent
44:31it was my only hope of getting out alive
44:38uh uh then then then they moved us um all to a camp uh north of berlin
44:49who went with you
44:54i remember violette
44:58a couple of others from from f section
45:00uh violette zabeau
45:06yes
45:10violette and and the others we were all there
45:13we were all sent to um um ravensbruck concentration camp it was a camp just for women
45:24ravensbruck
45:26a women's only concentration camp
45:33yes
45:39at this time very little is widely known about concentration camps very few people have heard
45:44about them the idea of there being one just for women i mean it's completely horrifying
45:52one day
45:56violette and the others just
46:00just disappeared
46:06i never saw them again
46:13and then um the russians came and liberated us the red cross uh took me to malmo in sweden in
46:21a bus
46:21the raf flew me to scotland i found a train to houston
46:31while horrific that vera finds out her agents went to ravensbruck the female concentration camp
46:37she can place them somewhere and she knows where they were
46:54thank you
46:57i'll leave you with you have a lot to catch up on
47:09there was incredibly happy to find yvonne it might be possible she's able to trace
47:14all of her missing agents
47:19but had they survived and where were they all now
47:26so
47:37so
47:38so
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