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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.
06:06The
06:06that
06:07the
06:07the
06:07the
06:08the
06:08the
06:08the
06:08I don't know.
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, they were shot.
07:15How do you know?
07:21I watched.
07:22How do you know?
07:39How do you know?
08:00I'm so affectionate for who she had really travelled across Europe and in dreadful conditions trying to find out what
08:07had happened to them.
08:08And finally, she has the evidence that these three women were murdered.
08:21Vera personally writes letters for the bereaved families.
08:25Each one detailing her search for these spies missing presumed dead.
08:32Vera would have felt shocked and upset, but to some extent, I think she might have also felt relief.
08:38She had closure on this story and although it wasn't the end she would have wanted or hoped for, she
08:46was finally able to tell the families of these three women what had happened to them.
08:50And they were able to finally understand what their daughters' wives, children had gone through and what they had sacrificed
08:58for their country.
09:06Each letter has to be assessed by her superiors to make sure Vera doesn't give away any incriminating evidence.
09:17Vera is in a very difficult position because the fact that there were women agents is not yet common knowledge.
09:23They want to keep it out of the public eye because it's a very difficult thing to try and explain
09:28to families and acquaintances and loved ones that actually your daughter was sent into harm's way without protection, without the
09:37protection of the Geneva Convention or the Hague Convention, without the protection of the British government effectively.
09:42They were meant to be completely deniable if they were captured or caught or indeed killed.
09:52But there remain other spies who are unaccounted for.
09:56Like Noor Inayat Khan, who, with two other agents, was last seen at the Natsweiler camp in the mountains of
10:05eastern France.
10:08In a few months, the Natsweiler war crimes trial will start, and Vera has been instructed to gather as much
10:15evidence as she can, but she can't do it alone.
10:24In the spring of 1946, Vera travels to Garganau, a small town near Karlsruhe.
10:43It's here she visits Major Bill Barkworth, at a property his SAS unit have commandeered, called the Villa Daigler.
10:53Vera Atkins, good to finally meet you.
10:56And you, sir.
10:58Yes.
11:01Barkworth has offered Vera the chance to get a witness statement from a former Natsweiler prisoner.
11:08A man who worked as a crematorium stoker, and is currently held captive in the cellars of the villa, along
11:16with other prisoners rounded up by Barkworth's Nazi hunter unit.
11:20His name is Franz Berg.
11:24Barkworth's testimony is key to whether Vera can get a conviction against those who ran the camp, and may have
11:32murdered her women agents.
11:40The next woman to be killed by injection, rather than gassing, were two English and two French women.
12:02The next woman to be killed by injection, rather than gassing, were two English and two French women.
12:03They were brought to the cells in the crematorium building one afternoon in July, 1944.
12:26We, me, and the other prisoners, could see through the fan light without standing up.
12:38We heard low voices.
12:42We heard noises of every breathing and low groaning.
12:49Next two women, we heard the same noises and regular groans, but the fourth, she resisted in the corridor.
13:03I heard her say, why?
13:17You wereconnected in the chimney, right?
13:18No, it's not hard, it's not hard.
13:24I heard her say, why?
13:25You're rusty, I heard her say, why?
13:28Well, that's a good job, I'm sorry, I feel like we are.
13:29You're the same, aren't you?
13:33I just heard the footsteps of them, but the oisee
13:34is um, everyone.
13:34I'm sure that badly murdered Jesus.
13:34I do not care for you to be this overnight yet, have you seen her or not?
13:34I know that.
13:40So you were and've here to find that we Chi priests,
14:03Vera has a witness statement that she can use at the upcoming Natsweiler war crimes trial.
14:10A testimony identifying that some of Vera's agents, including Noor, were killed at the camp.
14:18But even with Berg's testimony, this is only one man's recollection.
14:24Vera needs more evidence.
14:30Vera continues her preparation for the Natsweiler war crimes trial.
14:36Thanks to Barkworth, she now has Berg's testimony and other witness statements.
14:43But Vera lacks a critical piece of evidence if she wants to convict those who ran Natsweiler.
14:51Vera needed hard evidence.
14:54If she wants to bring those perpetrators to justice,
14:58she needs to gather enough of the hard evidence
15:02that will stand up in a court of law to actually bring them to justice.
15:08Vera needs documentary evidence.
15:12Something that ties those who ran the camp with her missing agents.
15:18So Vera tries to find documents that show which of her agents were murdered at Natsweiler.
15:26Four of her agents were sent there from Karlsruhe prison.
15:31Surely, Fräulein Becker, at Karlsruhe, would have kept records.
15:39I need to see your records. Now, please.
15:42We don't have any.
15:44I can't imagine that.
15:47The French.
15:49When they came, they destroyed everything.
15:51Smashed it all up.
15:56All gone.
15:59Fräulein Becker tells Vera that all the prison documents were destroyed by the French.
16:05Now, 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 SAS.
16:41At Karlsruhe prison, Barkworth and Vera confront Fräulein Becker.
16:48Where are they?
16:50Where are what?
16:51The records!
16:52I don't know.
16:54I know you know.
16:55Where are they?
16:56I don't know!
16:59Such everything!
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.
17:21The records.
17:24You lie.
17:43Vera and Barkworth go through the prison records.
17:49Every entry and exit from the prison is marked.
17:55Vera finds entries that on the 6th of July, 1944,
18:00four women agents are transferred from the prison at Karlsruhe
18:03to the concentration camp at Natsweiler.
18:10This corroborates what Berg told Vera
18:13about four agents who were killed at Natsweiler.
18:23Vera now has clear evidence that four women agents were murdered.
18:28The names are Andre Borrell,
18:33Vera Lee,
18:35Diana Roden,
18:38and Sonia Olshaneski.
18:43The fourth name, Sonia Olshaneski,
18:45is unknown to Vera.
18:49Vera expected to see Noor's name or alias.
18:55Witnesses had identified Noor
18:57as travelling with this group to Natsweiler.
19:01Noor was born in Moscow,
19:02so a Russian-sounding alias could make sense.
19:09For Vera,
19:10Sonia Olshaneski's entry,
19:12taken with other evidence,
19:14is actually for Noor
19:16in Ayat Khan.
19:19Vera has written evidence
19:21that four SOE women,
19:23including Noor in Ayat Khan,
19:25are transported from Karlsruhe
19:27to Natsweiler
19:28and most likely killed there.
19:32She can now take the evidence
19:34to trial.
19:40The 29th of May, 1946.
19:44The Natsweiler war crimes trial
19:46begins in Vorpital
19:47in the west of Germany.
19:51The Natsweiler trial
19:52would have been so important to Vera
19:54and it was her other chance
19:56to get information about the women
19:58so she could provide that
19:59to the families and their close ones,
20:01but also to bring these men to justice.
20:06This was the most brutal execution,
20:09murder, in fact, of these women.
20:12It didn't need to be done
20:13in such a horrific manner,
20:15if at all.
20:17This will be a British-led trial,
20:19with Nazis tried on German soil,
20:22but under international law.
20:25A trial about one of the Nazis'
20:28specially hidden concentration camps
20:30in the mountains of France.
20:34Natsweiler isn't particularly well-known,
20:36but it was in microcosm
20:38the system of the concentration camps
20:41set up in Germany,
20:42and in this case in France.
20:43It was a camp of 22,000 deaths,
20:46around 55,000 people
20:48went through Natsweiler,
20:50so relatively small
20:51compared to some of the other concentration camps
20:53in the Reich.
20:54But nevertheless,
20:55a system of tremendous brutality,
20:58slave labour,
20:59medical experimentation,
21:00oppression, violence,
21:02the capo system,
21:03a terrible, terrible place.
21:08But before the trial starts,
21:11Vera receives a blunt instruction
21:13from her new boss,
21:14Norman Mott.
21:16Vera,
21:19everything,
21:20and I mean everything,
21:22has been done in London
21:24to keep this disgusting business
21:26out of the newspapers.
21:28I need you to ensure
21:30that the press's interest
21:31is discouraged.
21:33And to our reputations,
21:34any good?
21:37I understand.
21:42I suggest you start
21:43by getting the names of the dead
21:45withheld from the trial.
21:51Their families won't like it,
21:53Norman.
21:55They want to know what happened.
22:00Too bad.
22:02It's a disgusting business
22:04which is best buried.
22:10Have you got a match?
22:13No.
22:15No.
22:17Jim.
22:24The Natsweiler trial
22:26would have been
22:27a troubling time for Vera,
22:28not only because of hearing
22:30the dreadful incidences
22:31and details of what had happened,
22:33but also that SOE
22:35was still a secretive organisation.
22:36People were not aware
22:38that women had been sent
22:40into the fields
22:40in violation
22:41of the Geneva Convention.
22:46And she probably worried
22:47not only if their names
22:49got out into the press
22:50what had happened to them,
22:51but there was questions
22:52to be start to raise
22:53about who had sent them,
22:55why had they sent them,
22:56why had this been allowed
22:58to happen.
23:01After four days of hearings,
23:03the verdicts are delivered
23:05to the accused.
23:15Werner Roder,
23:16the medical officer
23:17who injected the women,
23:18is given a death sentence.
23:28Peter Straub,
23:30SS officer in charge
23:31of the executions,
23:33is given 13 years in prison.
23:36Later that year,
23:38he is given a death sentence.
23:41Fritz Hardenstein,
23:43the commandant of Natsweiler,
23:44is imprisoned for life.
23:48The verdict of the Natsweiler trial
23:50was that the three men
23:51who were on trial
23:53for the murder
23:54of these SOE women
23:55were all found guilty.
23:56So, in some respects,
23:58that's a very positive outcome.
24:00She had proved
24:01that this murder
24:01was unlawful,
24:03this execution,
24:04as they called it.
24:05But then the sentences
24:06may have been
24:08a bittersweet moment.
24:09Did Vera want
24:10an eye for an eye
24:10at this point?
24:11Did she want to see
24:12these men suffer
24:13and pay the ultimate price?
24:15Or was she just happy
24:16to have received
24:17the guilty verdict?
24:18She was a very
24:19straightforward woman,
24:20and I think she would
24:21have been just pleased
24:23to have seen
24:23these men go down
24:25for what they'd done.
24:28Vera secures
24:30the agreement
24:30of the court
24:31that the names
24:32of the dead
24:32will be withheld
24:33from publication.
24:36Thanks to Vera's work,
24:38the trial fails
24:39to create Mott's
24:40much-feared
24:41newspaper sensation.
24:44Vera's role
24:45in the affair
24:45remains out
24:47of the public eye.
24:48for now.
24:57Vera turns
24:59her attention
24:59to her final
25:00three women spies
25:02from Karlsruhe,
25:03who are unaccounted for.
25:06Yolande Beekman,
25:08Eliane Plumann,
25:09and Madeleine Damermont.
25:16Vera comes across
25:17an interrogation
25:19statement
25:19taken by
25:20American investigators
25:21of Gestapo soldiers
25:23stationed
25:24in the town
25:25of Karlsruhe.
25:34One soldier,
25:36Max Vassmer,
25:38recalls transporting
25:39women prisoners
25:40from Karlsruhe
25:41to Dachau
25:42concentration camp.
25:46The ranks
25:47of three of the women
25:48match those of
25:50Vera's
25:50unaccounted agents,
25:51and Vassmer's
25:54detailed description
25:55of one woman
25:56matches Madeleine Damermont.
26:03At Dachau,
26:04Vassmer reportedly
26:06tells his colleagues
26:07that he pronounced
26:08the death sentence
26:09on the women,
26:11and that they
26:13were then killed.
26:16But can Vera
26:17be sure?
26:20Other Gestapo
26:21soldiers claim
26:23there were four women,
26:24not three,
26:25like Vassmer says.
26:26They also claim
26:28that one of the women
26:29came from a completely
26:30different prison
26:31called Pforzheim,
26:33not Karlsruhe,
26:34as Vassmer states.
26:36One of the problems
26:37that Vera has,
26:38and indeed
26:39all of the people
26:40involved in the war crimes
26:41trials have,
26:42is the veracity
26:43of the witnesses.
26:44Because when she got
26:45testimony,
26:46or drawings
26:48or verification
26:50from her own side,
26:52her own agents
26:53or people
26:53who were also
26:54in the camps
26:54and said they saw
26:55three women
26:56or four women
26:57who came into the camp,
26:59she can believe them.
27:00They may not remember
27:01everything,
27:01but at least
27:02she knows
27:03that they're being honest.
27:04But when you're relying
27:05on the testimony
27:06of an SS officer
27:07or a capo
27:08who's worked in the camp,
27:10they're also self-interested.
27:11They also want
27:12to exonerate themselves.
27:13And so it's very difficult
27:15often to know
27:15if they're telling the truth.
27:17And so even though
27:18she gets the Vassmer testimony
27:20and she thinks
27:21she's got some
27:22solid 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
27:32Vassmer's testimony
27:33in the report?
27:35Vera has to find Vassmer
27:38and interrogate him
27:39herself.
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,
28:26you know whether they go,
28:27that's definitely the person
28:28or I think that's the person.
28:30And it's all to do
28:31with intonation.
28:31It's all to do
28:32with being in the same room
28:33as someone.
28:34So for Vera,
28:35being in the same room
28:35as Max Vassmer
28:36is really important
28:38so that she
28:38can interrogate him.
28:41Your name is Max Vassmer,
28:43correct?
28:45Yes.
28:49And you transported women
28:51from Karlsruhe Prison
28:52to Dachau,
28:54correct?
29:11Yes.
29:15And then you watched
29:16as they were shot,
29:18correct?
29:20No.
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 the 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 them
30:34for you?
30:38Three women.
30:40Vasper provides
30:42descriptions
30:42of three women
30:44transferred from Karlsruhe
30:46to Dachau
30:47that match
30:48Vera's records
30:48of three
30:49SOE women.
30:51Vera has sufficient proof
30:53that her SOE agents,
30:55Jolande Beekmann,
30:57Eliane Plumann,
30:59and Madeleine Darmamor
31:00are killed
31:02at Dachau.
31:05Vera,
31:06after interviewing
31:07Max Fassmer,
31:08now has everybody
31:09accounted for.
31:10She knows
31:11exactly where
31:12all of her agents
31:13ended up
31:14and there must have been
31:15a sort of wonderful
31:16sense of completion
31:17but also this sort of
31:18tragic pang
31:19of knowing
31:20that there's nobody
31:22left to be saved
31:23and just the horrific
31:24nature of their deaths.
31:25It must have been
31:26absolutely awful.
31:34Vera now believes
31:36she has sufficient evidence
31:38to account for every one
31:39of her lost women spies
31:41alive or dead.
31:46She writes up a report
31:48for London
31:48closing the case.
31:52Of the 39 women
31:54Vera sent to war,
31:5527 returned alive.
31:59Many after
32:01sustained torture.
32:0712 lose their lives
32:09at the hands
32:10of the Nazis.
32:17She encloses draft letters
32:19to be sent to the women's
32:20next of kin.
32:22Details of their names
32:23to be completed
32:24in London.
32:28It is with the deepest regret
32:30that I have to inform you
32:31that your daughter
32:32was killed
32:33in the early hours
32:34of the 13th of September
32:361944
32:38in the camp of Dachau.
32:40According to what is believed
32:42to be a reliable report,
32:44she was shot through
32:45the back of the head
32:46and death was immediate.
32:49The body was cremated
32:50in the camp crematorium.
32:53Vera does succeed
32:55in discovering
32:56the fate of the 12
32:58missing women agents.
33:00And in that sense,
33:01there is closure for her.
33:03She has succeeded
33:05in discovering
33:06what's happened
33:06to all of them.
33:07But also,
33:08it means that she can
33:10write to the families
33:11and personally tell them
33:13what's happened.
33:14And she carries that
33:16for the rest of her life.
33:18What you find later in life
33:20is some of the children
33:21of the agents
33:23who died in action
33:24actually seek her out.
33:25They travel from
33:26across the world
33:26because she's the one
33:28tangible physical link
33:31with those agents.
33:33And so she assumes
33:34a really important role,
33:36not only immediately
33:38after investigations,
33:40but for the rest
33:41of her life,
33:42she's the one
33:43that carries their memory.
33:49Vera has finally
33:50uncovered the fate
33:51of her missing women
33:53and prepares
33:54to leave Germany.
34:00With this part
34:01of her mission over,
34:03Vera will return
34:04to England.
34:33Vera must now uncover
34:35why so many of her agents
34:37were captured
34:38and how the Nazi
34:40intelligence service
34:41seemed to infiltrate
34:43SOE's agent networks
34:44so successfully.
34:46When Vera returns
34:48to England,
34:49there's a niggling
34:50doubt in her mind
34:51that perhaps
34:52they have been betrayed,
34:54she has been betrayed,
34:56perhaps there was
34:57a spy within the SOE,
35:00perhaps there was
35:01somebody betraying
35:02them all,
35:02all along.
35:06And the most terrifying
35:08fear starts to take
35:09hold of her,
35:10that somebody
35:10very close to her,
35:12somebody who she has
35:13to have worked with
35:14at SOE itself,
35:15might have actually
35:16betrayed her.
35:17And she has to start
35:18thinking,
35:19did I send these
35:21agents out
35:22to their deaths?
35:24Were they being
35:24parachuted to
35:25or flown to
35:26the waiting arms
35:28of treachery?
35:31The man who is
35:32key to this
35:33is the head
35:34of Nazi security
35:35in France,
35:36Hans Kiefer,
35:37who is hiding
35:38somewhere in Germany.
35:42Find Kiefer
35:43and you find
35:45the traitor.
35:58Vera passes a tip
35:59to her friend,
36:00SAS Major Bill
36:02Barkworth,
36:02that Kiefer
36:03might be hiding
36:04in his 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 uncover
36:18how the Germans
36:19captured her
36:20women agents.
36:24He is the man
36:25who masterminded
36:26the Nazi radio
36:27operation
36:27in northern
36:28France.
36:32Dr. Josef
36:33Goertz.
36:40Goertz
36:41worked as one
36:42of Kiefer's
36:42lead counter-intelligence
36:44officers.
36:46Dr. Goertz
36:47works in
36:48Avenue Falk
36:49in the
36:50Sicherheitsdienst
36:51headquarters
36:51in Paris
36:52and he is
36:53an underling
36:54of SS
36:55Strobampfer
36:55or Kiefer
36:56from the
36:56Sicherheitsdienst
36:57and his job
36:59is effectively
37:00to engage
37:02in counter-espionage,
37:03to collect
37:04the evidence,
37:06letters,
37:06documents
37:07from enemy agents
37:08and keep them,
37:09analyze them
37:10and then give that
37:11information forward
37:12back to Kiefer
37:13and inform him
37:14about what the
37:14agents are up to.
37:17There is one thing
37:18there is one thing
37:18there is one thing Goertz
37:18is especially good at
37:20which is fooling the
37:21British with fake
37:22radio transmissions.
37:28London was oblivious
37:30that agents had been
37:31captured
37:33and that Goertz was using
37:35information tortured out
37:36of them
37:36to trick SOE
37:38into revealing
37:39intelligence
37:40about the
37:41agents'
37:41circuits.
37:43It's basically
37:44a game
37:45that they were
37:46playing
37:46with the British
37:47by sending them
37:48false messages
37:49through their own
37:50wireless transmitters.
37:51So when you'd
37:52capture an agent
37:53it'd be taken back
37:54to Avenue Falk
37:55and they'd been
37:56interrogated
37:57and their actual
37:57transmitter was kept.
37:59So that that meant
38:00that when they gave
38:01them the right codes
38:03they could then
38:04give false messages
38:05back to London
38:06and get them to do
38:07all sorts of things
38:08that they wanted to
38:09make them think
38:09that agents
38:10were still okay
38:10and hadn't been
38:11detained
38:12or indeed
38:13give them false
38:14messages about
38:15what was happening
38:15in the war
38:16that would get
38:16passed up the chain
38:17to Winston Churchill
38:18and affect the war.
38:22Goertz is one
38:23of thousands
38:23of suspected war
38:24criminals
38:25arrested after the war
38:27but when it is
38:28discovered that he
38:29is the radio
38:30mastermind at
38:31Avenue Foch
38:32he is sent to
38:33England for further
38:34interrogation.
38:38Funkspiel.
38:39That's what we
38:40called it.
38:41The radio game.
38:44And London
38:45was very bad at it.
38:48We would impersonate
38:50one of your agents
38:52ask questions
38:54and London
38:55would give us
38:55the answer
38:56with a
38:57little slap
38:59on the wrist.
39:01please use your
39:02security code
39:03next time.
39:11London
39:12was a joke.
39:14When the agents
39:15we captured
39:16knew how much
39:17we knew already
39:18well
39:20they simply gave up.
39:24What did you do
39:25once the agents
39:26were caught?
39:29We
39:31interrogated them
39:33for more
39:34personal information.
39:37More?
39:39Kiefer
39:40told your agents
39:42that we knew
39:43all their secrets
39:44already
39:45and if they
39:46wanted to live
39:48well
39:49they'd have to
39:51collaborate
39:52with him.
39:55How did Kiefer
39:57know so much?
39:59Personal information
40:00was never shared
40:01by radio.
40:02no
40:04not by radio
40:07the only
40:09personal
40:09information
40:10was sent
40:11by
40:11mail
40:21Gertz reveals
40:22that Kiefer
40:23somehow gets
40:24access
40:25to personal
40:26letters
40:26that Vera's
40:28agents
40:28send from
40:29France
40:29back home
40:30to England.
40:37Uncoded letters
40:38full
40:39of private
40:40information.
40:44Vera discovers
40:45that Kiefer
40:46has actually
40:47had access
40:47to all
40:49of the mail
40:49from the
40:50agents
40:50so they
40:52didn't have
40:52a chance
40:53when the agents
40:54had dropped
40:54into France.
40:55The Germans
40:55know exactly
40:56who's coming
40:57and when
40:57and that
40:58realisation
41:00that the Germans
41:01were reading
41:01all the agents
41:02mail
41:03must have
41:04been such
41:05a shocking
41:06revelation
41:06to Vera
41:07and then
41:08it leads
41:09to the next
41:09question
41:10who had
41:11betrayed them?
41:17How did Kiefer
41:18get the mail?
41:21Kiefer told me
41:22that he
41:24got it
41:24from Gilbert?
41:28Gilbert?
41:38Yes.
41:40I believe
41:41that's him.
41:45Gilbert
41:46is the
41:47codename
41:48for
41:49French agent
41:50Henri
41:51Derricor.
41:59How lovely
42:00to see you.
42:01Likewise.
42:01The man
42:02SOE had trusted
42:03with the safety
42:04of their agents
42:05appears to be
42:06a traitor.
42:09Derricor
42:10had already
42:11been recalled
42:11to London
42:12by Buckmaster
42:13and Boddington
42:14after allegations
42:15of collaborating
42:16with the Nazis.
42:19Derricor pleaded
42:20his innocence
42:21and after an
42:22investigation
42:23Don't worry,
42:24Derricor.
42:25We'll clear this
42:26whole sorry
42:26business up.
42:27Thanks, sir.
42:29He is cleared.
42:32Vera
42:33is put in a position
42:34where she either
42:35believes a Nazi
42:36or a possible
42:38double agent.
42:39Henri Derricor
42:40is in the heart
42:41of the SOE.
42:42He is
42:42one of their own.
42:44This is a man
42:45that she hands
42:46over her agents to.
42:47How could she
42:47possibly believe
42:49that he could be
42:49a double agent?
42:50He was cleared.
42:51I mean,
42:51surely everybody
42:52knows him.
42:54But how did
42:55the Nazis
42:55know so much?
42:57How is it possible?
42:58And here is
42:59Gertz
43:00saying,
43:01well,
43:01you know this.
43:02I'm telling you
43:03the truth.
43:04And it must have
43:05been such a worm
43:07in her mind.
43:08Was Derricor
43:09a spy,
43:10a double agent.
43:12So who
43:13is telling the truth?
43:16Derricor
43:17or Gertz?
43:19One of the problems
43:20with trying to
43:21tease out
43:22a spy
43:23is that you
43:24have to trust
43:25people that
43:25you don't trust.
43:26And in this case,
43:27she's talking to
43:28people like
43:28Dr. Gertz
43:29from the SD.
43:30And it's in his
43:32vested interest
43:33and has been
43:33for years
43:35to play
43:36cat and mouse
43:36games with
43:37the SOE
43:38and with people
43:39like Vera.
43:39And so she
43:40has to decide,
43:41well,
43:41can I trust
43:42somebody like
43:43Dr. Gertz?
43:44So these doubts
43:45are also in her mind.
43:47What does she
43:48really know?
43:54the only way
43:55for Vera
43:56to be sure
43:57is to find
43:58the mastermind
43:59for all
44:00Nazi intelligence
44:01in northern France,
44:02Hans Kiefer.
44:05A man
44:06who is on the run
44:07hiding somewhere
44:09in Germany.
44:21But all
44:22of Vera's work
44:23comes into question
44:24when she receives
44:25a letter
44:25forwarded by
44:27her superior,
44:28Norman Mott.
44:31The letter
44:32is written
44:33by Yolande
44:34La Grave,
44:35a member
44:35of the French
44:36resistance.
44:39La Grave
44:40writes
44:40that in June
44:411943
44:42she was arrested
44:44by the Gestapo
44:45and transferred
44:46to Pforzheim
44:47prison.
44:53I was able
44:54to correspond
44:55with an English
44:56parachutist
44:57who was locked
44:57up there also.
44:59She was very
45:00unhappy.
45:02Her hands
45:03and feet
45:03were chained
45:04and she was
45:05never allowed
45:06out.
45:07I heard
45:08the blows
45:08which she
45:09received
45:09from the
45:09prison guards.
45:10She was
45:11taken away
45:12from Pforzheim
45:13in September
45:141944.
45:16Before she
45:16left,
45:17she had been
45:18able to send
45:18me,
45:19not her name
45:20because it
45:20was too
45:21dangerous,
45:21but her
45:21alias,
45:22and she also
45:23wrote down
45:23her address
45:24for me.
45:25It was
45:25this.
45:26Nora Baker,
45:28Radio Centre
45:29Officers Service,
45:30RAF,
45:314 Taveston
45:31Street,
45:32London.
45:33I kept
45:34the address
45:35on a piece
45:35of paper
45:36sewn into
45:36my hand.
45:39Noor Inayat
45:40Khan had
45:41been recruited
45:42as a wireless
45:43operator from
45:44the WAF,
45:45the women's
45:45division of
45:46the RAF.
45:494 Taveston
45:50Street,
45:50London,
45:51had once
45:51been her
45:52family's
45:52home,
45:53and Nora
45:54Baker had
45:56once been
45:57her alias.
46:10Veera believes
46:11the prisoner
46:11Lagrave writes
46:12about is
46:14Noor.
46:15And if Noor
46:16had been held
46:17at Pforzheim
46:18until September
46:191944,
46:21then there is
46:22no way she
46:22could have been
46:23one of the
46:23four women
46:24killed at
46:25Natswiler
46:25in July
46:261944.
46:29When Veera
46:30learns about
46:30Noor's fate
46:31and the fact
46:32that she's
46:32gone to Pforzheim,
46:33it's such a mix
46:34of emotions
46:35because here
46:36she thought,
46:36she's written
46:37to the family,
46:38that Noor
46:39has been killed
46:39in Natswiler.
46:40She has
46:42internalized that
46:42now,
46:43dealt with that,
46:44thought there's
46:44been some closure,
46:45and now this has
46:46opened up something
46:47else.
46:47Could Noor be
46:48alive?
46:49Did she manage
46:49to get out?
46:50What happened
46:51to her?
46:51So she is
46:52in a space
46:53where now
46:53she has to
46:54find out
46:54the final journey.
46:56She has to
46:56find out if
46:57she escaped,
46:57there is a
46:58sliver of hope,
46:59but also what
47:00could have
47:00happened to Noor.
47:02So what
47:03did happen
47:04to Noor?
47:06If she wasn't
47:07killed at
47:07Natswiler,
47:08could Noor
47:09still be alive?
47:12Veera has
47:13to uncover
47:13the truth.
47:50Noor
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