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00:03World War II is over, but British women agents remain missing throughout Europe.
00:14The other English women, how many were there?
00:18Answer me!
00:20Nazi radio mastermind Josef Goertz gives spymaster Vera Atkins an explosive testimony.
00:28Yes, I believe that's him.
00:31Implicating Henri Derricourt as the double agent who betrays the British SOE to the Gestapo.
00:42Derricourt is arrested in Paris, but has Vera really got the man who betrayed her women agents?
00:52Whitehall has closed down the special operations executive.
00:58But Vera has evidence from a French resistance fighter that her agent, Noor Inayat Khan, could still be alive.
01:07Vera will not give up.
01:10One agent who does make it back alive is Odette Sansom.
01:14She is driven out of Ravensbrück concentration camp by its commandant, Fritz Søren.
01:20This man is a walker.
01:22Søren is now on the run.
01:25But his deputy, Johann Schwarzhuber...
01:28What happened to her?
01:29They were shot.
01:31...is in custody, awaiting the Ravensbrück trial.
01:46It's the 5th of December, 1946.
01:50In Hamburg, in the British zone of occupied Germany,
01:55The Ravensbrück trial begins.
02:00The defendants are concentration camp personnel from all divisions of the camp.
02:07SS officers.
02:09Camp doctors.
02:11Female guards.
02:13It is a Nazi camp like no other.
02:18Ravensbrück was a concentration camp, and unlike every other concentration camp,
02:23it was a concentration camp for women.
02:28It was particularly horrifying.
02:30For the sensibilities of people in the 1940s as well,
02:34where women are meant to be kept out of combat, out of war,
02:36and treated with some level of humanity,
02:39Ravensbrück was a particular horrific site to end up in.
02:47The Ravensbrück trial is important, and it's unique,
02:50because of the treatment of prisoners within the camp.
02:54In particular, the medical experiments that had been carried out
02:57for sterilisations, for example.
03:04Vera's role in the trial is to manage the extensive evidence
03:08she has brought together, passing it on to the prosecutors.
03:16But she must not reveal her role to the international press.
03:35The trial features one of the camp's most notorious SS officers.
03:44Johann Schwarzhuber.
03:47He is about to face one of his accusers.
03:52Barrister, could you please say who this man in front of us is?
03:56Johann Schwarzhuber.
04:00And who is your next witness?
04:04Adette Sansom.
04:09Odette Sansom is a star witness for the prosecution,
04:13giving damning testimony about what happened at the camp,
04:17at the hands of Schwarzhuber and others.
04:22The court hears from Odette and other witnesses
04:27about the treatment of female agent Violette Sabo,
04:31who is described talking about
04:34my baby, my baby,
04:37her young child left behind in Britain.
04:46and how Violette and two other agents,
04:51Lillian Rolfe
04:52and Denise Block,
04:55are brought from the punishment block,
04:58emaciated, dirty, and weak.
05:06They are then taken behind the crematorium building
05:11and shot.
05:14The trial would have been difficult for Vera
05:17as the witnesses took the stands,
05:19although she'd probably already interviewed
05:20some of them previously,
05:22she may have compartmentalised it in some way.
05:26But having seen and spoken to
05:29and befriended the agents
05:30that she had sent into the field,
05:32the realisation of what these women had sacrificed
05:36and what the overarching impact
05:38on their families were going to be,
05:40it must have been harrowing for her.
05:45At the end of the trial,
05:47Schwarzhuber is sentenced to death
05:51and executed on the 3rd of May, 1947.
05:56Five of the female guards
05:58are also executed.
06:01Fritz Suren, the commandant,
06:03remains a fugitive from justice.
06:07But before the closing statements are finished,
06:11Vera is already on her way to try
06:14and track down the last of her lost women spies,
06:17Nor Inayat Khan.
06:31Previously, Vera received a letter
06:34from a French resistance fighter,
06:36Yolande Lagrave,
06:39claiming she had contact with Nor
06:40in a prison in Pforzheim
06:42in the west of Germany.
06:49This directly contradicted Vera's evidence
06:52from crematorium stoker Franz Berg.
06:55He claimed that Nor was killed
06:57at the Natsviler concentration camp
07:00in France.
07:03Vera already has an eyewitness testimony
07:06from Natsviler saying that Nor is dead.
07:08And now she has another eyewitness testimony
07:10saying, no, that is not true,
07:12she is here.
07:12What eyewitness do you trust?
07:15How does Vera make this decision?
07:18She needs some sort of corroborating evidence
07:21to prove one way or the other.
07:26So what did happen to Nor?
07:30Vera needs another witness statement.
07:35So she decides to interrogate
07:38one particular Gestapo soldier
07:40for a second time.
07:44Max Vassmer transported SOE agents
07:48to Dachau concentration camp
07:50in September 1944.
07:56Vassmer claims that he transferred
07:59three women to the camp.
08:01Even though other witnesses say
08:03there was a fourth woman.
08:06A woman from Pforzheim prison.
08:17Three.
08:19You're sure it was three?
08:23Three women.
08:26Not men.
08:27Women.
08:32Because the other guards
08:34say you're wrong.
08:41The receipt
08:42said three women.
08:46That is not
08:47what I asked.
08:48did you take
08:50three women?
08:57Three.
08:58Four.
08:59What's the difference?
09:00It's all
09:01the difference.
09:09So it was four.
09:18three from Carl Sragoa.
09:22And
09:23another.
09:27From
09:30Pforzheim,
09:31I think.
09:36Please tell me
09:37what they looked like.
09:39All of them.
09:44She looked like
09:47she may have been
09:48Indian.
09:59Vassmer describes
10:01the fourth woman
10:04giving a description
10:06of a woman
10:07who Vera believes
10:10is
10:11Nor
10:11Inayat Khan.
10:30Vassmer reveals
10:32that Nor
10:33is taken
10:33outside the camp
10:34with the other women
10:36and made
10:37and made to kneel
10:37in front of a mound
10:38of earth.
10:42The only word
10:43Nor says
10:44before she is shot
10:46is the French word
10:47for freedom.
10:49Liberté.
10:55Thank you,
10:56Herr Vassmer.
11:00We're done.
11:03Vera can now put to rest
11:05her quest
11:06to find out Nor's story
11:08and her final resting place,
11:10the concentration camp
11:12at Dachau.
11:21Now,
11:22Vera must ask
11:23the hardest question
11:24of all.
11:26Who betrayed
11:27her women agents?
11:30Who is the person
11:32that betrayed Nor,
11:35Violette Sabo,
11:37and all of Vera's
11:39other women spies,
11:41so they ended up
11:42in the hands
11:43of the Nazis?
11:46Could it have been
11:48Henri Derricourt?
11:50There were allegations,
11:52but Vera
11:53still doesn't know
11:54for sure.
11:58The man who would know
12:01is Hans Kiefer,
12:05the man in charge
12:06of Nazi intelligence
12:08in Paris.
12:12To find him,
12:14Vera needs
12:15the SAS.
12:23SAS intelligence officer
12:25Major Bill Barkworth
12:26and his men
12:27stake out a small town
12:29in southern Germany.
12:34They've received
12:35a tip-off
12:36from Vera
12:36that Hans Kiefer
12:38has been spotted here.
12:40It is Kiefer's
12:41hometown.
12:42They're looking
12:43for the caretaker
12:44of a local hotel
12:46who signs
12:47the town hall register
12:48as Hans Kiefer.
12:50The name
12:51is suspiciously similar
12:53with only one F
12:54removed.
12:57The name
12:57and his husband
12:57been
12:57the
12:57is
12:57name
12:57the
12:57has
12:57to
12:57of a
12:59a
12:59Let's go.
13:29Let's go.
14:00Get him out of here.
14:04Barkworth and Vera have their man.
14:08Now it is their chance to find out who betrayed all of Vera's women agents.
14:18It is January 1947.
14:22Vera is face to face with her secret enemy, Hans Kiefer.
14:29Hans Kiefer is a lifelong Nazi, so he joined the Nazi party in the early 1920s, so very,
14:35very early on.
14:36And he rises to become, during the war, the head of the Gestapo and SS operation runner
14:42in Paris.
14:46So this was an operation specifically aimed at hunting down mostly special operations
14:53executive agents in the field, so agents of the SOE in France.
14:57But the thing about Hans Kiefer is he's a fascinating individual because he's not like you would
15:01imagine your archetypal SS bruiser.
15:05He's a subtle, wily, clever fox.
15:11Vera has waited almost two years for this moment.
15:15The chance to interrogate the man who could answer all her questions, the man who holds the key
15:23to her lost women spies, and what really happened to Knorr, codename Madeleine.
15:33Boleine considered the French section of SOE particularly dangerous.
15:41Both the Führer and Himmler had shown a personal interest.
16:08I remember Madeleine.
16:16Refused to cooperate.
16:20Unlike the others.
16:25She tried to escape with a group of male agents.
16:31It would have ruined us if she made it back to SOE.
16:35Ruined me.
16:38So I sent her away.
16:43She ended up in Fortsheim, I think.
16:51She was a brave one.
16:59Her name was Knorr Inayat Khan.
17:05She is most likely dead.
17:09Shot through the head at Dachau.
17:19Kiefer, if one of us is going to cry, it is going to be me.
17:23You will please stop this comedy.
17:31Who betrayed them, Kiefer?
17:34Who betrayed Knorr?
17:39You're asking me if there was a traitor in your ranks.
17:48Why are you asking me?
17:52You know yourself, there was one.
17:57You recalled him to London.
18:01Gilbert?
18:07And who is Gilbert?
18:11I think you're now.
18:15Of course you're now.
18:19Only
18:20dare he go.
18:40Here, at last, is Vera's definitive proof that Henri Derricor is the double agent.
18:48Don't worry, Derricor.
18:50We'll clear this whole sorry business up.
18:53Thanks, sir.
18:54Despite Buckmaster and Boddington's investigation clearing him.
19:04There is no doubt in Vera's mind that with all the resistance evidence coming in,
19:09all of the information that Kiefer knows about Derricor,
19:12obviously now, for Vera, she knows Derricor is the mole.
19:18He is a double agent.
19:20He's the reason that all of her agents, or a lot of them,
19:23ended up in concentration camps.
19:25He's the reason that they were murdered.
19:28And the anger that must have pulsed through her at that point.
19:31This isn't a sinking feeling anymore.
19:33This is something that she needs justice for.
19:38Now, Vera has a star witness who can testify against,
19:42and hopefully convict, Henri Derricor.
19:56June, 1948.
20:02Henri Derricor is brought to trial in Paris.
20:10Here is Vera's chance for justice.
20:14Vera had spent the last few years building up her case against Henri Derricor.
20:20I mean, she had everything.
20:22Now she was a civilian, obviously, she wasn't leading the prosecution,
20:25so she couldn't determine what evidence they were going to use in court against him.
20:29But she had so much.
20:31She had, like, affidavits from actual Nazi war criminals who named him.
20:36She had all of the evidence that she'd gathered from her own agents.
20:40She had all the evidence from the French resistance.
20:43Henri Derricor was at the centre of this web of lies,
20:47and she could prove it.
20:49It was all right there.
20:50She must have felt so confident when they entered the courtroom.
20:54But it is soon clear it may not be as easy as Vera hopes.
21:02It's now been over a year since Vera interrogated Hans Kieffer.
21:08She is told that in June, 1947,
21:11Kieffer was convicted of the murder of five SAS men
21:15and executed before he can give evidence at the Derricor trial.
21:24Hans Kieffer would have known more than anybody else
21:27about every single agent who was arrested when and how
21:31and the radio game, and also what informers he was using.
21:34So, one might think that his evidence would have been,
21:38or a statement at least, would have been crucial
21:40to the eventual trial of Henri Derricor as a traitor.
21:47I mean, there's a potential conspiracy theory around the fact
21:51that he was deliberately executed
21:53so that he couldn't reveal the full extent
21:56of the SOE failings and disastrous infiltrations.
22:02Next, Vera discovers the statement
22:04which she extracted from Kieffer
22:06is not going to be put before the court.
22:10Finally, no former SOE officers
22:13will appear in court to give evidence.
22:20But, on the final day,
22:23one former officer does make the trip to Paris.
22:29None other than Nicholas Boddington.
22:38Could Boddington be the man
22:39to help get Derricor convicted?
22:50Boddington gives evidence.
22:52But instead of giving evidence against Derricor,
22:55Boddington testifies that Derricor's contact with the Nazis
22:59was fully authorised for counter-espionage purposes.
23:09Henri Derricor is found not to be a traitor.
23:13Instead, partially thanks to Boddington's testimony,
23:18he is acquitted.
23:20Derricor is a free man.
23:23Vera has to face the possibility
23:26that her women agents were compromised
23:29so that Derricor could supply intelligence to London
23:32about the Nazis.
23:34Put yourself in Vera's boots.
23:36She's been trying to prosecute Henri Derricor for years.
23:39And here, it's almost like a farcical trial.
23:42And not only does the prosecution
23:44not really try and pin him down
23:46and brings virtually no witnesses,
23:48but the defence, they bring Boddington.
23:52Like, this is a man that Vera's worked with.
23:54And he knows what she's been doing.
23:56He knows that she's desperately been trying
23:59to bring justice to all the women
24:01who, some of them were tortured to death.
24:03And she feels responsible for that
24:06because she's the person who sent them out there.
24:08Vera, how could you, Nick?
24:10Vera.
24:12How could you support that traitor?
24:15Testify for him after everything he did
24:17to my agents, our agents.
24:20Vera.
24:20You're a liar.
24:22Everything I said was true.
24:24You're a liar.
24:26Vera, Derricor's contact with the SD was authorised.
24:30I sent my girls to war
24:32with no protection under the Geneva Convention.
24:35If they were made as spies,
24:37they faced certain death.
24:39You sent them to their deaths.
24:43You sent a widow with a young daughter to France.
24:46That child is now an orphan.
24:49You pulled Nora out of training early
24:51because you needed a wireless operator.
24:54You volunteered for this job.
24:56Begged Buckmaster to play with the big boys.
24:58Don't forget that.
25:01I don't know you, Nick.
25:04You never did.
25:08It appears that the men
25:10at the top of the British establishment
25:11want the true story of the women spies
25:15to be lost permanently.
25:20But others are now interested
25:22in what happened to Vera's spies.
25:26In the early 1950s,
25:29writer Jean Overton Fuller
25:31begins researching a series of books
25:33about the SOE.
25:37Jean wants to find out
25:38what happened to her friend
25:40Noor Inayat Khan,
25:41who disappeared during the war
25:43after telling Jean she was going away.
25:48Despite being warned off
25:50by establishment figures,
25:52Fuller interviews former members
25:54of the SOE,
25:56and one man in particular.
26:04Codename Gilbert.
26:08Henri Derricourt.
26:13Her work results in three books
26:16about the SOE
26:17with the last called
26:18Double Webs,
26:20published in 1958.
26:23The book makes the controversial claim
26:26that Noor and other agents
26:28are sent by the SOE
26:30into the hands of Henri Derricourt,
26:34with the full knowledge
26:35that Derricourt is a double agent,
26:39working with the Nazis.
26:44The book makes headlines.
26:47Delivery for Mrs. Ward!
26:49Several MPs receive letters
26:50from the families of lost women spies
26:53wanting to know the whole truth
26:55about their daughters.
27:02One MP is Conservative member
27:05for Tyneside, Irene Ward.
27:11Irene, through the Home Office,
27:13requests an interview
27:15with someone who knows what happened.
27:18The Home Office sends Vera.
27:32Overton Fuller writes,
27:34and I quote,
27:35I have read the book,
27:37Mrs. Ward.
27:43It's a shame, really,
27:45that accuracy appears to be
27:47secondary concern.
27:50I find these things
27:51of such importance.
27:59You're disputing
28:00that Henri Derricourt
28:02was a double agent?
28:04Perhaps you could ask him yourself.
28:06I'm sure Miss Overton Fuller
28:08could direct you to him.
28:13Miss Atkins,
28:16what concerns me
28:18is that the SOE,
28:20that you're superiors,
28:22that you,
28:23were sending women to fight
28:25in the full knowledge
28:26they had no chance to survive.
28:28Mrs. Ward,
28:31what did you do
28:32during the war?
28:34I served my constituents.
28:44Atkins,
28:46your mother's name,
28:48I believe.
28:50Your father's name,
28:52Rose.
28:55Rosenberg,
28:56if I'm not mistaken.
28:59And you're from Romania,
29:01originally.
29:04How did a young
29:05Romanian girl
29:06like yourself
29:07and...
29:07I'm so sorry,
29:08Mrs. Ward,
29:09but I have another meeting.
29:15Good day,
29:16Miss Atkins.
29:19See yourself out, please.
29:24After the meeting,
29:25Irene Ward
29:26digs into Vera's
29:28personal history,
29:29who she is,
29:30where she comes from,
29:32and what she really did
29:33at SOE.
29:40Irene Ward's digging
29:42threatens to reveal the story
29:44of the lost women spies.
29:47The security establishment
29:48goes into damage control.
29:52An academic,
29:53called MRD Foote,
29:55at the University of Oxford,
29:57is engaged to produce
29:59an official history
30:00of the SOE.
30:03MRD Foote
30:05is ex-SAS.
30:06He also was captured
30:08in the war,
30:09and he was put in
30:10a prisoner of war camp
30:11in France,
30:12so he has all of this
30:13direct experience
30:14within the war,
30:14but he's also a historian,
30:16so he's got that authority
30:17as well.
30:18He understands
30:18how to write about history,
30:20and he understands
30:21that there are still
30:22some secrets
30:23that must stay secret.
30:27His exhaustive work
30:28concludes that,
30:30To the question
30:31of why people
30:32with so little training
30:33were sent
30:34to do such important work,
30:36the only reply
30:38is the work
30:39had to be done,
30:40and there was nobody
30:41else to send.
30:51Professor Foote.
30:53Before the book
30:54is published,
30:55Vera speaks to Foote
30:56and persuades him
30:58to omit
30:59her Romanian background
31:00from his history
31:01of SOE.
31:06So why does Vera hide
31:08who she really is?
31:10Because Vera
31:11is forced to cover up
31:13not just her public story
31:14and the lost women's spies,
31:16but also the private story
31:18of her family's life.
31:33It was a closely guarded secret
31:38at SOE
31:39that Vera was born
31:40in Romania
31:41rather than the UK.
31:46But that wasn't
31:47Vera's only secret.
31:58Vera was not born
32:00Vera Atkins,
32:03but Vera Rosenberg.
32:07Vera is one of three children
32:09of Max and Hilda Rosenberg,
32:12who are both German Jews.
32:15Just before the First World War,
32:18Max purchases an estate
32:19and woodmill
32:20in Bukovina,
32:22a region that will become
32:23part of Romania.
32:28But after Vera's father dies
32:31in 1932,
32:32and with anti-Semitism
32:33in Europe on the rise,
32:35Vera and her two brothers
32:37move to the United Kingdom,
32:41where they take their English
32:43mother's surname
32:44of Atkins.
32:48Vera leaves behind
32:49in Romania
32:50an extended family.
32:53As the Nazis
32:54take hold of Europe,
32:56the family who stay
32:57are in mortal danger.
33:01The terror
33:02that people live with
33:03cannot be underestimated,
33:05even if they weren't
33:06actually at direct risk
33:08of being moved
33:09to concentration camps.
33:10This isn't just
33:11my family,
33:12this isn't just
33:13my aunt and my dad
33:14and my direct family,
33:15this is everybody
33:16with Jewish family
33:17who were living
33:18in the UK
33:19and England at the time
33:20were terrified
33:21about what was going
33:22to happen
33:22to their relatives.
33:23And I think everybody
33:24wanted to do
33:25whatever they could
33:26to help.
33:30According to a family story,
33:32Vera's family
33:33in the UK
33:33raise a large amount
33:35of money
33:35to help
33:36their European relatives.
33:40My dad,
33:41my uncle and Vera
33:42were very keen
33:43to provide any help
33:44they could,
33:45so they obviously
33:46found money
33:46and they found resources.
33:47But it was very clear
33:49that by this point
33:50to get money,
33:51to get resources,
33:51to get a logistical plan,
33:53you probably needed
33:54to go.
33:55You needed to leave England,
33:57you needed to get on a boat
33:58and you needed to go
33:59and practically help.
34:02Vera travels to Antwerp,
34:04Belgium,
34:04in 1940,
34:06just as the Nazis
34:07are about to invade.
34:17During the war,
34:18people would often
34:19store their wealth
34:20in something
34:21that could be
34:22more easily hidden
34:23and transported.
34:31Diamonds.
34:42For hundreds of years,
34:44Antwerp
34:45has been the center
34:46of the diamond trade
34:47in Europe.
34:50Vera is believed
34:51to have converted
34:52the money
34:53from the UK
34:53into diamonds
34:55for the family
34:56in Romania.
35:01But who are
35:02the relatives
35:03facing Nazi persecution
35:05that Vera
35:06wants to save?
35:16Fritz Rosenberg
35:18is Vera's cousin.
35:20Vera's relatives
35:22in the 1940s
35:23faced disaster.
35:30The region
35:31has been occupied
35:32by Hungary,
35:33an ally
35:34of Nazi Germany.
35:39under new anti-Jewish laws,
35:42Fritz and his wife Karen
35:44lose their passports.
35:46They may even be deported
35:48to concentration camps.
35:53But without a passport,
35:55they are unable
35:56to escape
35:56to another country.
36:00This rise
36:01in anti-Semitism
36:02in the law
36:03is reflected
36:03in the population.
36:05They wouldn't be able
36:06to trust their neighbours.
36:07They wouldn't be able
36:08to trust
36:09that at any point
36:10they might be snatched
36:11away in the middle
36:12of the night.
36:13They could be put
36:13on a train
36:14and taken to
36:14God knows where.
36:16I mean,
36:16it must have been
36:16absolutely terrifying
36:17for them.
36:20Karen Rosenberg
36:21contacts a German
36:23family friend.
36:25someone who has
36:27good contacts
36:28with the Abwehr,
36:29German military
36:30intelligence.
36:35Karen is able
36:37to obtain
36:37Aryan passports
36:39issued by the
36:40Nazi government
36:40for her and Fritz.
36:45The Rosenbergs
36:46pay the Abwehr
36:47a large sum,
36:49about £150,000
36:51in today's money
36:52to get
36:53the prized passports.
36:57Money that could
36:58be the diamonds
36:59that Vera sources
37:00in Antwerp.
37:02Karen and Fritz
37:03are able
37:04to leave Romania.
37:07They are free,
37:08but it's a freedom
37:10that comes
37:11at a personal cost.
37:20Fritz and Karen
37:21relocate to the
37:22safety of Istanbul,
37:26where Vera's brother,
37:28Ralph Rosenberg,
37:30lives.
37:32The reason they
37:34go to Istanbul
37:34is because of
37:36a condition
37:36set by the
37:37Abwehr.
37:42Vera's brother
37:43is not only
37:44working for an oil
37:45company in Istanbul,
37:47but also supplying
37:49MI6
37:50with local
37:51intelligence.
37:56The Abwehr
37:57want Karen
37:58to give them
37:59valuable information
38:00about Ralph
38:01and MI6.
38:10Vera had almost
38:12certainly gone
38:13to Antwerp
38:14to raise the money
38:15for Fritz
38:16and Karen's
38:17passports,
38:18the very passports
38:20that allow
38:20the Abwehr
38:21to get close
38:22to an MI6
38:23agent.
38:25Vera has
38:26paid the
38:27bribe.
38:28She's
38:28possibly
38:29met
38:30German
38:30intelligence
38:31officers
38:31face-to-face.
38:33Karen
38:34herself
38:34has had
38:35contact
38:36with a
38:37German
38:37intelligence
38:37officer
38:38who's
38:39asked her
38:39to work
38:40for the
38:40Germans.
38:41It's beginning
38:42to look
38:43really suspicious.
38:44Anyone
38:44looking at
38:45this
38:46situation
38:47is going
38:48to start
38:48throwing
38:48suspicion
38:49on Vera
38:50and on
38:50the Rosenbergs.
38:52Are they
38:52loyal?
38:53What's going
38:54on here?
38:55It's opening
38:55a Pandora's
38:56box.
38:59Had it been
39:00known by
39:01the SOE
39:01that Vera
39:02had handed
39:03over money
39:04to get
39:04Aryan
39:05passports
39:05from the
39:06Abwehr,
39:07it would
39:07have put
39:08Vera
39:08under
39:09serious
39:09suspicion
39:10of being
39:11a double
39:11agent.
39:15Instead,
39:16Vera
39:16keeps her
39:17family story
39:18a closely
39:19guarded
39:19secret.
39:21And when
39:22the British
39:22Security
39:23Services
39:23publish
39:24MRD
39:24Foote's
39:25History
39:26of the
39:26SOE,
39:28Vera
39:28has all
39:29mention
39:29of her
39:30Romanian
39:31family
39:31roots
39:32erased.
39:34But despite
39:35the Security
39:36Services'
39:37best attempts
39:37to cover
39:38up the
39:39story
39:39of the
39:40lost
39:40women
39:40spies,
39:42it's a
39:43story
39:43that just
39:44won't
39:44go away.
39:50after creating
39:50controversy
39:51with her
39:51book
39:52Double
39:52Webs,
39:53Jean
39:53Overton
39:54Fuller
39:55starts
39:55researching
39:56a new
39:56book,
39:57this time
39:58about
39:59Henri
39:59Derricor's
40:00relationship,
40:01not with
40:02the Nazis,
40:03but with
40:03MI6.
40:05The book
40:06is called
40:06The Checkered
40:08Spy,
40:08and it claims
40:10Derricor
40:10wasn't just
40:11a double
40:12agent,
40:13but that he
40:14was spying
40:14on the
40:15SOE,
40:16on the
40:17orders
40:17of MI6.
40:20Derricor
40:20was MI6's
40:22mole at
40:23the heart
40:23of the
40:24SOE,
40:25monitoring
40:26everything
40:26they were
40:27doing,
40:28as MI6
40:29believed
40:29that the
40:30SOE
40:31were
40:32incompetent.
40:35The suggestion
40:36is that
40:37members of
40:38the British
40:38Security
40:38Services
40:39knew that
40:40the women
40:40Vera trained,
40:42like
40:42Noor
40:43Inayat
40:43Khan,
40:48like
40:48Violette
40:49Sabo,
40:51like
40:52Odette
40:52Sansom,
40:54were being
40:54sent into
40:55the hands
40:55of a
40:56known
40:56double
40:56agent.
41:00But
41:00Henri
41:01Derricor
41:01never sees
41:02the day
41:03that the
41:03book is
41:04published.
41:31sub-editor's desk.
41:34Poddington?
41:36Yes?
41:38It's Buckmaster.
41:40Good grief.
41:43Been a while.
41:44How are you?
41:47Good.
41:48Thanks,
41:49Bucks.
41:49You?
41:51Seeing the news.
41:54Derricor's
41:55disappeared
41:56in the far
41:56east.
41:57Plane he was
41:58flying,
41:58carrying a
41:59cargo load
42:00of God.
42:01I think the
42:02cause of the
42:02crash was
42:04fuel starvation.
42:07No.
42:08No,
42:08I haven't
42:09seen it.
42:10What does that
42:11mean?
42:15Any
42:15survivors?
42:17No.
42:18And they
42:19can't find
42:20Derricor's
42:20body.
42:24Wasn't
42:25Vera
42:25close to
42:26that man
42:26from the
42:26SAS?
42:28The sort
42:28of thing
42:29they're good
42:29at.
42:30Giving
42:31people a
42:32helping hand
42:32into the
42:33grave.
42:35I, uh,
42:36I wouldn't
42:36know.
42:38Vera and
42:38I don't
42:39speak.
42:42I think
42:42she works
42:43for the
42:43UN now.
42:45Well,
42:46if you
42:47hear anything.
42:51All that
42:52Derricor
42:53business
42:54was
42:56very
42:57unfortunate
42:57for
42:59everyone.
43:03It's
43:04best that
43:05he's
43:05gone.
43:06Dead
43:07men
43:07don't
43:08talk.
43:14Vera
43:14Atkins
43:15retires
43:16to the
43:17south
43:17coast
43:17of
43:17Britain,
43:18moving
43:19to
43:19Winchelsea.
43:21She
43:21has
43:21a
43:22steady
43:22but
43:23discreet
43:23stream
43:24of
43:24visitors,
43:25including
43:26Tanya
43:26Sabo,
43:27the
43:27daughter
43:28of
43:28agent
43:28Violette
43:29Sabo.
43:42Now
43:43you see
43:43the
43:43George
43:43Cross
43:44for
43:44Mother.
43:50Odette
43:51Samson
43:51was
43:51the
43:52first
43:52ever
43:52woman
43:52to
43:53receive
43:53that.
43:58The
43:59French
43:59also
43:59gave
43:59Mother
44:00the
44:00quadriguer.
44:03That
44:04was good
44:04of them.
44:09And
44:10Nore
44:10received
44:11both
44:11medals
44:11too.
44:15There's
44:16a memorial
44:16now at
44:16Dachau.
44:24And
44:25now you
44:26received
44:26your
44:27CBE.
44:28Finally.
44:29They took
44:30their time,
44:30didn't they?
44:33Are you
44:34looking forward
44:34to the
44:34ceremony?
44:39We'll
44:39see,
44:40won't
44:40we?
44:47I'll
44:47leave
44:47this
44:48here.
44:56I
44:56always
44:57drove
44:57them
44:57down
44:58to
44:58the
44:58aerodromes.
45:00It
45:01always
45:01seemed
45:02to be
45:02a
45:02summer's
45:03day.
45:04I
45:05saw
45:05them
45:05off.
45:08When
45:09the war
45:09ended
45:09and when
45:10they didn't
45:10come back,
45:11I went
45:11looking for
45:12them
45:12all.
45:15Missing,
45:16presumed
45:17dead,
45:21is such
45:22a terrible
45:23epitaph
45:23for anyone.
45:29Can't
45:29believe my
45:30time has
45:30finally
45:30come.
45:32Been
45:32such a
45:33whirlwind.
45:36And yet
45:36the adventure's
45:37just about
45:37to start.
45:40Remember
45:41what they've
45:41taught you,
45:42Noor.
45:44Yes,
45:45Miss Atkins.
45:50There.
45:51You're
45:52clean.
45:56You're so
45:57smart,
45:57Miss Atkins.
45:59You're
45:59one of the
46:00nicest things.
46:04Here.
46:06It's
46:07yours.
46:10May it bring
46:11you luck.
46:18Thank you,
46:19Miss Atkins.
46:20Are you
46:21ready?
46:24Yes,
46:25Miss Atkins.
46:28Very good.
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