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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.
02:12The Allied invasion of Europe, to recapture France from the Nazis, has begun.
02:17The Allied invasion of Europe, to recapture France from the Nazis, has begun.
02:37The French resistance, supplied and coordinated by SOE,
02:42launch into action.
02:49In London, F-Section monitor the sabotage activity.
02:56There's palpable excitement.
02:59Buckmaster and Vera are watching as these messages come in.
03:03There's already been acts of sabotage, trying to disrupt the train lines,
03:08trying to disrupt communication lines, blow up bridges,
03:11blowing up telephone exchanges, to try and disrupt the Germans as much as possible.
03:18It's chaotic, but it's exhilarating.
03:22In the flurry of messages coming in from their agents,
03:26they receive one that is unusual.
03:29Sir, message from Paul sign Leopold.
03:34Leopold?
03:37Leopold is inactive.
03:38He was arrested in 43.
03:42Thank you for the large delivery of weapons and ammunition.
03:46Incredibly grateful for the information on your plans and objectives.
03:52Signed the Gestapo.
03:56The Gestapo?
04:00It's not the only message F-Section received that day
04:04from the Nazis' feared secret police.
04:09Buck?
04:10Another.
04:12Thank you for the supply drop. Equipment gratefully received.
04:16Unfortunately, some of your agents had to be shot.
04:21Others were more open to do what we asked.
04:24The Gestapo.
04:26What the hell are they playing at?
04:31Send a reply.
04:34Sorry to see your nerves are shot,
04:37and your resilience isn't as strong as ours.
04:41Buckmaster.
04:42Yes, sir.
04:44Yes, sir.
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.
05:13They 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.
05:34Wireless messages of German targets being hit continue to stream in.
05:42Sabotage by those SOE networks was absolutely crucial during D-Day.
05:49And the Germans were so angry at this 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 Sabot has been captured.
06:17Violette is already a widow.
06:19She's got a two-year-old daughter.
06:22And 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?
06:41It just says captured.
06:44Nothing else.
06:58In the Limousin region of France, resistance fighters pull off an audacious mission.
07:05They have kidnapped the commander of the 2nd SS Panzer Division, Das Reich.
07:12And, of course, the Nazis are furious about this.
07:15They want their commander back.
07:17And so they start to ramp up their control of the area.
07:21They've put in roadblocks.
07:23Trying to capture resistance members.
07:26And they start to punish the resistance for what they've done.
07:30The Nazis are out for revenge.
07:33And choose the village of Ourador-sur-Glan to send a bloody message to the French people.
07:50They've hit another fuel depot.
07:53Good.
07:54Their tanks are thirsty beasts.
07:57They'll be running on fumes by the time they reach Normandy.
07:59If they may get that far.
08:03But soon, news of the massacre reaches Buckmaster.
08:08Sir, a report from France.
08:10You need to read it now.
08:19Buck?
08:26What is it?
08:28The SS.
08:33The resistance captured their commander.
08:41They massacred a village.
08:44What?
08:49Over 600 dead.
08:51Women.
08:53Children.
09:01I thought the Germans had honour.
09:03That they acted like gentlemen.
09:08Buck.
09:12I never thought they'd do something like this.
09:22The news of the massacre at Ourador-sur-Glan really is shocking for Buckmaster.
09:28That the Germans have sunk so low that they'll massacre innocent women and children.
09:35Where did this happen?
09:39Buck, where did this happen?
09:41Buck, where did this happen?
09:50A limousine.
09:54A limousine.
10:03Violet was operating out of the limousine.
10:06Before capture.
10:13But no further information on Violet has come through.
10:27In northern France, the Allies consolidate their foothold in Normandy.
10:33And prepare to push out deeper into the country.
10:41F section is a hive of activity.
10:45Organising weapons drops, ammunitions, explosives.
10:48For the French resistance to stop the Germans being able to defend themselves against the Allied attack.
10:55I'm sorry.
10:58Buck, a message from callsign Bursa.
11:01The Scholar Circuit are requesting a supply drop to the Jura region.
11:06Bursa is Vera's agent, Yvonne Bazden.
11:10And she's been operating in France for about three months in the Jura region, which is to the east of
11:15France.
11:17Authorise the drop.
11:20On the 25th of June 1944, 32 flying fortresses were flown over by the RAF.
11:29And they released 440 parachutes.
11:33And attached to those parachutes were canisters full of weapons and explosives and arms and equipment needed by the resistance.
11:44It's the largest daylight parachute drop of the war.
11:48Hidden at the drop zone is 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, meaning that every
12:02minute and every hour that went by, they were more and more at risk of being caught.
12:08But Yvonne was so excited when this happened.
12:11And she said, as every one of those parachutes opened, hope was attached to them.
12:20After a frantic two days on the ground, Yvonne 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.
12:54The resistance are taking the fight to the Germans across the country.
13:00But that's tinged with uncertainty.
13:04What about the agents?
13:07How many have survived?
13:09How 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?
13:34Vialet is with two resistance men and they're driving to meet other SOE leaders.
13:40But what they don't know is the resistance have caught one of the SS commanders of the 2nd Panzer Division.
13:47And the Germans are frantic to get him back.
13:50They start mounting roadblocks and they start searching people, asking everybody for their papers, where were they when this happened?
14:00No.
14:01What?
14:03I thought you said this road was clear.
14:07It was.
14:09What?
14:09It was.
14:10It's a new checkpoint.
14:12They can't search us.
14:13I know.
14:14They can't search us.
14:15If they search the car they'll find our weapons.
14:17We have British weapons.
14:19If they search the car they'll know we're resistance.
14:25We can't be captured.
14:28Stop the car.
14:40We make for the woods.
14:42Try to lose them.
14:43We go now.
14:46Move.
14:49Halt!
15:11As Violet's escaping, she twists her ankle.
15:14It was already damaged from the parachute drop she'd done during 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.
15:45So she provides cover fire for the resistance men so that they can get away.
16:10Go!
16:12Go!
16:15Go!
16:21Go!
16:29Go!
16:29Go!
16:30Go!
16:38The report ends.
16:41Violet was held by the SS in the French city of Limoges.
16:48But 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 the relief of finally being
17:33able to be in the city and not be under german occupation just must have been phenomenal
17:39with the allies pushing deeper into france
17:44what's left of soe's circuits begin to lose their importance
17:50boddington is traveling he's lecturing to allied forces on the conditions in france
17:57buckmaster himself has set up in the hotel cecil in paris and he will then very quickly start a
18:05tour of the surviving circuits at 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
18:23vera is tasked with making sense of them all goodbye miss atkins sorry a flight officer atkins
18:31yes 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
19:00it was understood that the casualty numbers would be quite high particularly surrounding the d-day
19:07landings many more female agents had been sent out in 1944 than before and this was vera's responsibility
19:17she's the one who's sent them to france in the first place with paris liberated the human toll of this
19:25decision comes into focus of the more than 400 soe agents dispatched to france 118 are missing
19:3716 of them are vera's women
19:57so after the liberation at the hotel where f section have set up a new office
20:03a man turns up and he's angry she's furious
20:09marcel rousset an f-section agent with the code name leopold demands to see anyone in the british secret
20:20service
20:22i'm sorry to interrupt but do you think you could fetch someone from soe for me
20:26now he had been captured by the gestapo and in fact it was even his radio that was used by
20:32the
20:32gestapo to send the taunting signals to soe headquarters on d-day hello i'm nancy how can i help
20:42it's my only chance i am he is angry he's absolutely furious at mistakes that soe has made that so
20:51many
20:51agents have been captured please take a seat here sir an soe officer sits down with rousset for a
21:00debriefing on his time in captivity he might know who has actually been arrested by the gestapo
21:06he might know who has survived so buckmaster rousset 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 force him to relay radio messages back to london and he quite deliberately
21:31totally follows soe protocol which is that he doesn't include special code words as a warning
21:39to soe but they just ignored this and continued to accept the messages that came from his radio as genuine
21:50his interrogation report is explosive and provides vera with important leads to the whereabouts
21:58of her missing agents at f section vera receives rousset's interrogation report
22:16after his arrest he's taken to the sd headquarters in paris
22:20at 84 avenue foch
22:27the sd is the ss intelligence agency and worked hand in hand with the gestapo here rousset is confronted
22:38with prosper's wireless operator gilbert norman code name butcher
22:45it was norman who told the germans that rousset was soe wireless operator leopold
22:54and he also tells rousset that the gestapo know everything about soe and their activities
23:06so sitel who's the organizer of that circuit and norman had given up everything about the prosper
23:14circuit in paris in order to try and save his life and maybe other agents lives as well
23:22as well as rousset is advised to do the same had he given up every piece of information what had
23:30he told
23:30them can you imagine how awful it was for vera just finding out that they could have revealed so much
23:37that every time vera sent a woman over she was just basically feeding them straight into the german prisons
23:46in the gestapo's cells rousset is held in solitary confinement but by tapping on the wall in morse code
23:56he manages to communicate with an soe agent in the cell next to his rousset learns that a wireless operator
24:05with the code name madeleine is also being held by the nazis
24:11nor in yet khan goes under the code name madeleine nor hadn't surfaced after the liberation of paris
24:22vera assumed she'd been captured but no further intel had been discovered
24:31rousset's report suggests that nor had been in the gestapo's prison in paris
24:40his report continues from paris the women prisoners were then transferred to germany
24:49this is news to vera she wasn't aware that any female prisoners have been transferred to germany
24:57where were they where have they gone could those women have been her agents could one of them have been
25:05no
25:08frustratingly rousset's intel now dries up he remains in the gestapo's prison working as a cleaner until two
25:17days after d-day
25:20noticing a gate unlocked he knocks out a guard and makes his escape
25:39so
25:49vera haunts the f section operations room
25:54waiting for any news on her missing women's spies
26:01then a report comes in from a member of yvonne baston's soe circuit
26:11after yvonne and her colleagues had hidden all the equipment that had come in on this daylight parachute
26:16drop they headed back to their headquarters
26:22but soon after they arrive everything changes
26:28the germans they're coming
26:31what we spotted a patrol of german soldiers they're heading for us
26:35do we have time to move no
26:39hide what you can then hide yourself
26:53the germans who arrived they just heard a tip off that this building might be of some interest and
26:59they're just going to do a cursory search
27:25there is literally nobody in sight they can't find anybody
27:28so they leave but they just leave behind one person
27:33he's effectively watching it just in case something happens or somebody arrives
27:37one can only imagine what would be going through the minds of yvonne and her team as they
27:42are hiding holding their breath not moving because they have to be totally quiet
27:47and then the plumbing makes a noise
27:58hello is anybody in there
28:08i heard something keep searching
28:20i heard something to say
28:47oh
28:47in london vera scours allied intelligence reports searching for any clues to her agents whereabouts
28:57who survived where were they being held and where were they now
29:03she has cause for optimism some agents are surfacing after the liberation of paris
29:12one of her agents mary herbert astonishingly has survived hiding in a farmhouse in france
29:20it gives vera hope that some of the other women might still be alive
29:29but for those still missing few details are known
29:34f-section operations are all but wound down but vera remains
29:43she is worried about her agents about the women she sent into the field she has to find out where
29:51they
29:51are the work is all-encompassing searching for any trace of where her agents were
30:02transported to in germany and where they could be rescued from once the allies are victorious
30:13in october british officials investigate 84 avenue foch
30:20the nazis former intelligence headquarters in paris
30:27some of her agents were held in captivity there by piecing together what happened there
30:35maybe she'll get some information about her lost agents
30:40i visited the torture chamber at avenue foch where kiefer had an office
30:52hans kiefer was the head of the sd in paris during the german occupation
31:00he's the man who convinced gilbert norman to reveal everything he knew about soe operations
31:08hans kiefer would have been personally in charge of the soe agents who were held at that prison
31:15kiefer would have to have known first of all who was held in his prison and what happened to them
31:25the report continues
31:28i found a moving inscription from men and women who knew they had lost everything except their honor
31:37but i was informed during the last few days before the departure of the germans
31:41that several people had been taken downstairs into the courtyard and shot
31:50it's a tragic revelation were her agents executed in this group
31:58she 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
32:20is known about them
32:25before nor departed for france vera had promised to send her mother periodic good news letters
32:33which she had
32:37but now the tone of these letters has to change
32:42from all the reports of nor's training everybody was saying that she wasn't ready
32:46but paris needed a wireless operator and immediately she'd put this young woman
32:54into 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
33:08with your daughter due to the confused state of affairs in france we were not unduly worried
33:13but i am afraid now your daughter must be considered as missing
33:19although there is every reason to believe that she will eventually be notified to us as a prisoner
33:24of war just the idea of writing letters to the family that's heartbreaking but vera's got other
33:31issues that she has to worry about the british government was never very happy about sending
33:36women combatants overseas because they were not protected by the geneva convention and that meant
33:41the nazis could do whatever they liked with them she also has fear about her own future because
33:48once it is revealed in the public that something has happened to these women
33:52she's also fearful about the consequences for her as the person who sent them out
34:02i would impress upon you in the interests of your daughter's safety that you make no
34:08inquiries with regard to her except through me
34:23by january 1945 the allies are making steady gains
34:30and nazi germany is on its knees
34:42the other side of the country
34:43but many agents are still missing
34:47despite combing through any and all intelligence documents
34:51vera's investigation finds no trace of them
34:57she now lobbies inside soe
35:04what vera wants to do as the allies are moving through germany
35:07is to give the names of her agents to the allied troops so that when they liberate
35:12camps and prisoners of war they can see if any of her agents are prisoners they can rescue them
35:18at the height of f-section operations vera is buckmaster's right-hand man she's right in the
35:23center of all of the major decisions but once f-section is over and buckmaster is gone it becomes
35:30incredibly difficult to convince anybody that her plight within soe is worth pursuing
35:37particularly john center the head of soe's security division and a commander in the royal navy
35:46atkins yes sir a memo of yours just came across my desk yes sir
35:56a memo suggesting that we give out the names of our agents
36:05publish their names for the red cross the american army
36:11the soviet army
36:16yes sir so that once those forces begin liberating pow camps they will have a register of all of our
36:22missing agents
36:27atkins you do understand what we do here the work we did during the war
36:34yes sir but then you'll also understand the meaning of secret as in the term secret agent
36:43sir if i may flight officer atkins
36:47let me remind you you are addressing a commander in the royal navy
36:52sir
36:58the war is not yet over
37:02how long do you think it would be before the germans also got to see those names
37:09why should we advertise who our agents are on a register for our enemies to see sir the germans are
37:19spent
37:20this is our best chance of finding our agents women agents alive
37:31consider your request denied on security grounds he's wanting to find out where were the security
37:39leaks in soe he's not interested in the fate of the missing agents
37:47the war is
37:47stick 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 find out what's happened to these agents because unless she finds out who will
38:05the war in march 1945 vera receives a report by french investigators searching friend prison in paris
38:20this is the gestapo prison where people were held when they were not being interrogated and tortured
38:26and it indicates something really quite disturbing for vera
38:30next to the name of one of the prisoners is n and n this means nacht und nebel or night
38:38and fog the
38:40nacht und nebel order was decreed by hitler that people who have been involved in espionage
38:47or resistance are to him so despicable that they have to be punished in an extraordinary way
38:55not only will they be captured interrogated tortured and then killed but they're supposed to disappear
39:02without a trace they will disappear as into night and fog time is running out to find her missing women
39:11alive
39:20by april 1945 germany is in total collapse
39:27the foreign office now they want to release the soe agents names vera is allowed to issue
39:35the names of her agents so that people liberating these prisoner of war camps can find them
39:42if 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
40:27the war in europe is over
40:35the war in europe is
40:43the war in america
40:48amid the celebrations in london vera gets news that gives her hope her agents survived
40:57on the 20th of may 1945 evonne basden captured and missing turns up at euston station in london
41:12the second
41:13how did you get here
41:31where are we going
41:34I'm taking you home
41:35your father is waiting
41:36my father
41:49from Euston station
41:51Vera takes Yvonne Bayston
41:53back to her family home
41:55in Brockwood Park in London
42:07Yvonne
42:17please come in
42:36you
42:37look
42:39weak
42:40let me make you
42:42something to eat
43:06what happened after you were captured
43:08did you see anyone else
43:10other agents
43:18Yvonne
43:19I need you to think
43:28after I was caught
43:30after I was caught
43:31they sent me
43:32east
43:34to a prison
43:37to a place called
43:39Saarbrocken
43:44there I started
43:45there I started seeing
43:46some familiar faces
43:49agents
43:51I'd been in training with
43:54I saw
43:57they've got the hold of Baker Street
43:59I didn't talk to them
44:03and I
44:04I kept my distance
44:09you see
44:11I told the Germans
44:12after they caught me
44:13that I was just
44:14an ordinary French girl
44:16caught in the wrong place
44:17at the wrong time
44:18that was my cover
44:20so I
44:21I had to keep my distance
44:23I
44:24I couldn't let the Nazis
44:27know that I was an agent
44:31it was my only hope of getting out alive
44:39then they moved us
44:41all to
44:43a camp
44:45north of Berlin
44:49who went with you?
44:54I remember Violette
44:57a couple of others
44:59from F section
45:03Violette Szabo
45:06yes
45:10Violette and the others
45:12we were all there
45:12we were all sent to
45:15Ravensbrück
45:16concentration camp
45:17it was a camp
45:19just for women
45:24Ravensbrück
45:27a women's only
45:28concentration camp
45:34yes
45:38at this time
45:40very little is widely known
45:41about concentration camps
45:42very few people have heard
45:44about them
45:44the idea of there being one
45:46just for women
45:47I mean it's completely
45:48horrifying
45:52one day
45:55Violette
45:55and the others
45:57just
46:00just disappeared
46:05I never saw them again
46:13then the Russians came
46:15liberated us
46:16the Red Cross
46:19took me to Malmo
46:20in Sweden
46:21in a bus
46:21the RAF flew me
46:23to Scotland
46:25I found a train to Houston
46:31while horrific
46:33that Vera finds out
46:34her agents
46:34went to Ravensbrück
46:35the female
46:36concentration camp
46:37she can place them
46:39somewhere
46:39and she knows
46:40where they were
46:54thank you
46:57I'll leave you with
46:59you have a lot
47:00to catch up on
47:09Vera was incredibly happy
47:10to find Yvonne
47:11it might be possible
47:13she's able to trace
47:14all of her missing agents
47:19but had they survived
47:21and where
47:22were they all now
47:55and where
47:57and where
47:57and the hand
47:57and she
47:58and she
47:58she
47:59and she
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