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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.
06:05That she's been rejected by Oliviasbrück.
06:06That she has been murdered.
06:09Be fair.
06:18Bye.
06:21We are out there.
06:24Bye.
06:29Bye.
06:42this one
06:46she had the name violette
06:54and what happened to her
06:59all three were taken to the crematorium building of the camp
07:05and one by one
07:07they were shot
07:15how do you know
07:21I watched
07:35Vera now has testimony
07:37that along with violette
07:39Lillian Rolfe and Denise Block
07:41were executed
07:43at the Ravensbrück concentration camp
07:45north of Berlin
07:49Vera must have been absolutely shocked
07:51to hear this information
07:53she would have clung on to any last thread of hope
07:56that the women had survived the camp
07:58as she heard of these women
07:59who she'd been so affectionate for
08:01who she had really travelled across Europe
08:04and in dreadful conditions
08:06trying to find out what had happened to them
08:08and finally
08:09she has the evidence
08:10that these three women were murdered
08:21Vera personally writes letters
08:23for the bereaved families
08:25each one detailing her search for these spies
08:28missing
08:29presumed dead
08:31Vera would have felt shocked
08:34and upset
08:35but to some extent
08:36I think she might have also felt relief
08:38she had closure
08:40on this story
08:42and although it wasn't the end
08:43she would have wanted
08:44or hoped for
08:45she was finally able to tell
08:47the families of these three women
08:49what had happened to them
08:50and they were able to finally understand
08:53what their daughters, wives, children
08:55had gone through
08:56and what they had sacrificed
08:58for their country
09:06each letter
09:07has to be assessed
09:08by her superiors
09:10to make sure
09:11Vera doesn't give away
09:12any incriminating evidence
09:17Vera is in a very difficult position
09:19because the fact that
09:20there were women agents
09:22is not yet common knowledge
09:23they want to keep it out of the public eye
09:25because it's a very difficult thing
09:27to try and explain to families
09:29and acquaintances
09:30and loved ones
09:31that actually your daughter
09:32was sent into harm's way
09:35without protection
09:36without the protection
09:37of the Geneva Convention
09:38or the Hague Convention
09:39without the protection
09:41of the British government
09:41effectively
09:42they were meant to be
09:43completely deniable
09:44if they were captured
09:46or caught
09:46or indeed killed
09:52but there remain other spies
09:54who are unaccounted for
09:56like Noor Inayat Khan
09:59who
09:59with two other agents
10:01was last seen
10:02at the Natsweiler camp
10:03in the mountains
10:04of eastern France
10:08in a few months
10:09the Natsweiler war crimes trial
10:11will start
10:12and Vera
10:13has been instructed
10:14to gather as much evidence
10:16as she can
10:17but
10:18she can't do it
10:19alone
10:24in the spring of 1946
10:26Vera travels
10:28to Garganau
10:29a small town
10:30near Karlsruhe
10:43it's here
10:44she visits
10:44Major Bill Barkworth
10:45at a property
10:47his SAS unit
10:48have commandeered
10:49called
10:49the Villa Daigler
10:52Vera Atkins
10:54good to finally meet you
10:56and you sir
10:57yes
11:01Barkworth
11:02has offered
11:03Vera the chance
11:03to get a witness statement
11:05from a former
11:06Natsweiler prisoner
11:08a man who worked
11:10as a crematorium stoker
11:12and is currently
11:13held captive
11:14in the cellars
11:15of the Villa
11:15along with other prisoners
11:17rounded up
11:17by Barkworth's
11:18Nazi hunter unit
11:19his name
11:21is Franz Berg
11:24Berg's testimony
11:25is key
11:26to whether Vera
11:27can get a conviction
11:28against those
11:30who ran the camp
11:30and may have murdered
11:32her women agents
11:33the next women
11:41to be killed
11:41by injection
11:48rather than gassing
11:49were
11:50two English
11:51and two French women
12:04they were
12:05brought to the cells
12:06in the crematorium
12:07building
12:07one afternoon
12:09in July
12:101944
12:25we
12:26me
12:27and the other prisoners
12:30could see through
12:31the fan light
12:32without standing up
12:38we heard
12:39low voices
12:42we heard
12:43noises
12:44of
12:44every breathing
12:46and low groaning
12:49next to women
12:51we heard
12:52the same noises
12:53and
12:54regular groans
12:56but the fourth
12:58she resisted
13:00in the corridor
13:03I heard her say
13:05why
13:09do
13:09okay
13:20yeah
13:21good
13:35let me
13:36do
14:02Vera now has a witness statement.
14:05That 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, she needs to gather enough of the hard evidence that will
15:03stand up in a court of law to actually bring them to justice.
15:07Vera 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 S.A.S.
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?
16:55I don't know!
16:59Search of it.
17:00All of it!
17:04You said the French destroyed everything.
17:06They did.
17:06Why would they do that?
17:07I don't know!
17:09Because you lie!
17:12Mom!
17:15What do we have here, huh?
17:16I don't know.
17:21The records.
17:23You lie.
17:26Liar!
17:27Liar!
17:44What do we have here, huh?
17:45Vera 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, four women agents are transferred from the prison at Karlsruhe
18:03to the concentration camp at Natsweiler.
18:10This corroborates what Berg told Vera about four agents who were killed at Natsweiler.
18:23Vera now has clear evidence that four women agents were murdered.
18:28The names are Andre Borel, Vera Lee, Diana Roden, and Sonja Olszineski.
18:42The fourth name, Sonja Olszineski, is unknown to Vera.
18:49Vera expected to see Noor's name or alias.
18:55Witnesses had identified Noor as traveling with this group to Natsweiler.
19:01Noor was born in Moscow, so a Russian-sounding alias could make sense.
19:09For Vera, Sonja Olszineski's entry, taken with other evidence, is actually for Noor in Ayat Khan.
19:19Vera has written evidence that four SOE women, including Noor in Ayat Khan, are transported from Karlsruhe to Natsweiler and
19:29most likely killed there.
19:32She can now take the evidence to trial.
19:40The 29th of May, 1946.
19:44The Natsweiler war crimes trial begins in Vorpital, in the west of Germany.
19:51The Natsweiler trial would have been so important to Vera, and it was her other chance to get information about
19:57the women,
19:58so she could provide that to the families and their close ones, but also to bring these men to justice.
20:06This was the most brutal execution, murder, in fact, of these women.
20:12It didn't need to be done in such a horrific manner, if at all.
20:17This will be a British-led trial, with Nazis tried on German soil, but under international law.
20:25A trial about one of the Nazis' specially hidden concentration camps in the mountains of France.
20:34Natsweiler isn't particularly well known, but it was in microcosm the system of the concentration camps set up in Germany,
20:42and in this case in France.
20:43It was a camp of 22,000 deaths, around 55,000 people went through Natsweiler, so relatively small compared to
20:51some of the other concentration camps in the Reich.
20:54But nevertheless, a system of tremendous brutality, slave labour, medical experimentation, oppression, violence, the Kapo system, a terrible, terrible place.
21:08But before the trial starts, Vera receives a blunt instruction from her new boss, Norman Mott.
21:18Vera, everything, and I mean everything, has been done in London to keep this disgusting business out of the newspapers.
21:28I need you to ensure that the press's interest is discouraged, but to our reputations, any good?
21:37I understand.
21:42I suggest you start by getting the names of the dead, withheld from the trial.
21:51Their families won't like it, Norman.
21:55They want to know what happened.
21:59Too bad.
22:02It's a disgusting business, which is best buried.
22:09Have you got a match?
22:13No.
22:15No.
22:17Jim.
22:24The Natsweiler trial would have been a troubling time for Vera, not only because of hearing the dreadful incidences and
22:32details of what had happened,
22:33but also that SOE was still a secretive organisation.
22:36People were not aware that women had been sent into the field, in violation of the Geneva Convention.
22:46And she probably worried, not only if their names got out into the press, what had happened to them, but
22:52there was questions we start to raise about who had sent them,
22:55why had they sent them, why had they sent them, why had this been allowed to happen.
23:01After four days of hearings, the verdicts are delivered to the accused.
23:15Werner Roder, the medical officer who injected the women, is given a death sentence.
23:28Peter Straub, SS officer in charge of the executions, is given 13 years in prison.
23:36Later that year, he is given a death sentence.
23:41Fritz Hardenstein, the commandant of Natsweiler, is imprisoned for life.
23:48The verdict of the Natsweiler trial was that the three men who were on trial for the murder of these
23:54SOE women were all found guilty.
23:56So, in some respects, that's a very positive outcome.
24:00She had proved that this murder was unlawful, this execution, as they called it.
24:05But then the sentences may have been a bittersweet moment.
24:09Did Vera want an eye for an eye at this point?
24:11Did she want to see these men suffer and pay the ultimate price?
24:15Or was she just happy to have received the guilty verdict?
24:18She was a very straightforward woman, and I think she would have been just pleased to have seen these men
24:24go down for what they'd done.
24:29Vera secures the agreement of the court that the names of the dead will be withheld from publication.
24:36Thanks to Vera's work, the trial fails to create Mott's much-feared newspaper sensation.
24:44Vera's role in the affair remains out of the public eye.
24:49For now.
24:57Vera turns her attention to her final three women spies from Karlsruhe, who are unaccounted for.
25:06Yolande Beekman, Eliane Plumann, and Madeleine Damermont.
25:16Vera comes across an interrogation statement taken by American investigators of Gestapo soldiers stationed in the town of Karlsruhe.
25:34One soldier, Max Vassmer, recalls transporting women prisoners from Karlsruhe to Dachau concentration camp.
25:46The ranks of three of the women match those of Vera's unaccounted agents.
25:53And Vassmer's detailed description of one woman matches Madeleine Damermont.
26:03At Dachau, Vassmer reportedly tells his colleagues that he pronounced the death sentence on the women.
26:11And that they were then killed.
26:16But can Vera be sure?
26:20Other Gestapo soldiers claim there were four women, not three, like Vassmer says.
26:26They also claim that one of the women came from a completely different prison called Pforzheim, not Karlsruhe, as Vassmer
26:35states.
26:36One of the problems that Vera has, and indeed all of the people involved in the war crimes trials have,
26:41is the veracity of the witnesses.
26:44Because when she got testimony or drawings or verification from her own side, her own agents,
26:53or people who were also in the camps and said they saw three women or four women who came into
26:58the camp,
26:59she can believe them.
27:00They may not remember everything, but at least she knows that they're being honest.
27:04But when you're relying on the testimony of an SS officer or a capo who's worked in the camp,
27:10they're also self-interested.
27:11They also want to exonerate themselves.
27:13And so it's very difficult often to know if they're telling the truth.
27:17And so even though she gets the Vassmer testimony,
27:20and she thinks she's got some solid information about what's happened to her final three agents,
27:25she can't really be sure, particularly when then she gets contradictory evidence.
27:31Can Vera trust Vassmer's testimony in the report?
27:36Vera has to find Vassmer and interrogate him herself.
27:52Vassmer is the only one who knows all three S.O.E. agents.
28:05She knows them intimately, and Max Vassmer says that he thinks he's identified as a member of the S.O
28:10.E. agent.
28:10Now, this is a huge big deal, because Vera can actually get the man in front of her
28:15and determine whether these women were different women or were her agents.
28:20And, you know, being there and able to speak to somebody about it,
28:24where you know, you know, if you show somebody a photograph,
28:26you know whether they go,
28:27that's definitely the person, or I think that's the person.
28:30And it's all to do with intonation.
28:31It's all to do with being in the same room as someone.
28:34So for Vera, being in the same room as Max Vassmer is really important,
28:38so that she can interrogate him.
28:41Your name is Max Vassmer, correct?
28:46Yes.
28:49And you transported women from Karlsruhe Prison to Dachau, correct?
29:11Yes.
29:15And then you watched as they were shot, correct?
29:21No.
29:23I handed them over to the guards.
29:26This report clearly states that witnesses saw you take the women to be shot.
29:34Well, I was there, yes.
29:37I wasn't present at the end.
29:42The guards took the women in, not me.
29:46We just...
29:48We just did transport.
29:52Then how did others know that four women were killed?
29:56Three.
29:58The report says four women.
30:02It was three.
30:05How can you be so sure?
30:07Because they gave me a receipt.
30:12A what?
30:16The next day, the guards gave me a receipt for three women spies, shot dead.
30:23We needed it for bookkeeping back at Karlsruhe.
30:32Shall I describe them for you?
30:39Three women.
30:40Vastra provides descriptions of three women transferred from Karlsruhe to Dachau that match Vera's records of three SOE women.
30:51Vera has sufficient proof that her SOE agents, Jolande Beekmann, Eliane Plumann and Madeleine Darmamont are killed at Dachau.
31:08She knows exactly where all of her agents ended up and there must have been a sort of wonderful sense
31:16of completion, but also this sort of tragic pang of knowing that there's nobody left to be saved.
31:23And just the horrific nature of their deaths.
31:25It must have been absolutely awful.
31:34Vera now believes she has sufficient evidence to account for every one of her lost women spies, alive or dead.
31:46She writes up a report for London, closing the case.
31:52Of the 39 women Vera sent to war, 27 returned alive.
32:00Many after sustained torture.
32:0712 lose their lives at the hands of the Nazis.
32:27It is with the deepest regret that I have to inform you that your daughter was killed in the early
32:34hours of the 13th of September, 1944, in the camp of Dachau.
32:40According to what is believed to be a reliable report, she was shot through the back of the head, and
32:47death was immediate.
32:49The body was cremated in the camp crematorium.
32:53Vera does succeed in discovering the fate of the 12 missing women agents.
32:59And in that sense, there is closure for her, she has succeeded in discovering what's happened to all of them.
33:07But also, it means that she can write to the families and personally tell them what's happened.
33:14And she carries that for the rest of her life.
33:17What you find later in life is some of the children of the agents who died in action actually seek
33:24her out.
33:25They travel from across the world because she's the one tangible, physical link with those agents.
33:33And so she assumes a really important role, not only immediately after investigations,
33:40but for the rest of her life, she's the one that carries their memory.
33:49Vera has finally uncovered the fate of her missing women and prepares to leave Germany.
34:00With this part of her mission over, Vera will return to England.
34:13Now, she must answer the hardest question.
34:32Vera must now uncover why so many of her agents were captured
34:38and how the Nazi intelligence service seemed to infiltrate SOE's agent networks so successfully.
34:46When Vera returns to England, there's a niggling doubt in her mind
34:51that perhaps they have been betrayed, she has been betrayed,
34:56perhaps there was a spy within the SOE,
35:00perhaps there was somebody betraying them all, all along.
35:06And the most terrifying fear starts to take hold of her,
35:10that somebody very close to her, somebody who she has to have worked with at SOE itself,
35:15might have actually betrayed her.
35:17And she has to start thinking,
35:19did I send these agents out to their deaths?
35:24Were they being parachuted to or flown to the waiting arms of treachery?
35:31The man who is key to this is the head of Nazi security in France,
35:36Hans Kiefer, who is hiding somewhere in Germany.
35:42Find Kiefer, and you find the traitor.
35:58Vera passes a tip to her friend, SAS Major Bill Barkworth,
36:02that Kiefer might be hiding in his hometown of Garmisch in Bavaria.
36:12With Kiefer on the run, Vera turns to another leading Nazi
36:17to try and uncover how the Germans captured her women agents.
36:24He is the man who masterminded the Nazi radio operation in northern France.
36:32Dr. Youssef Goertz.
36:40Goertz worked as one of Kiefer's lead counterintelligence officers.
36:46Dr. Goertz works in Abneufoch, in the Sicherheitsdienst headquarters in Paris.
36:52And he's an underling of SS Sturbanfeuer Kiefer from the Sicherheitsdienst.
36:57And his job is effectively to engage in counterespionage,
37:03to collect the evidence, letters, documents from enemy agents,
37:08and keep them, analyze them, and then give that information forward back to Kiefer
37:13and inform him about what the agents are up to.
37:17There is one thing Goertz is especially good at,
37:20which is fooling the British with fake radio transmissions.
37:28London was oblivious that agents had been captured
37:33and that Goertz was using information tortured out of them
37:36to trick SOE into revealing intelligence about the agents' circuits.
37:43It's basically a game that they were playing with the British
37:47by sending them false messages through their own wireless transmitters.
37:51So when you'd capture an agent, it'd be taken back to Abneufoch,
37:55and they'd been interrogated, and their actual transmitter was kept.
37:59So that that meant that when they gave them the right codes,
38:03they could then give false messages back to London
38:06and get them to do all sorts of things that they wanted to,
38:09make them think their agents were still OK and hadn't been detained,
38:12or indeed give them false messages about what was happening in the war
38:16that would get passed up the chain to Winston Churchill and affect the war.
38:21Goertz is one of thousands of suspected war criminals arrested after the war.
38:27But when it is discovered that he is the radio mastermind at Abneufoch,
38:32he is sent to England for further interrogation.
38:37Funkspiel.
38:39That's what we called it.
38:41The radio game.
38:44And London was very bad at it.
38:48We would impersonate one of your agents,
38:52ask questions,
38:54and London would give us the answer,
38:56with a little slap on the wrist.
39:01Please use your security code next time.
39:11London was a joke.
39:14When the agents we captured knew how much we knew already,
39:19well,
39:20they simply gave up.
39:24What did you do once the agents were caught?
39:29We
39:31interrogated them
39:33for more personal information.
39:37More?
39:39Kiefer
39:40told your agents
39:42that we knew all their secrets already.
39:45And if they wanted to live,
39:48well,
39:50they'd have to
39:51collaborate
39:52with him.
39:55How did Kiefer know so much?
39:59Personal information was never shared by radio.
40:02No.
40:04Not by radio.
40:08The only personal information
40:10was sent by...
40:11By mail.
40:21Gertz reveals
40:22to the people.
40:23that Kiefer
40:23somehow gets access
40:25to personal letters
40:26that Vera's agents
40:28send from France
40:29back home
40:30to England.
40:37Uncoded letters
40:38full of private information.
40:44Vera discovers
40:45that Kiefer
40:46has actually
40:47had access
40:47to
40:48all of the mail
40:49from the agents.
40:51So,
40:51they didn't have a chance
40:53when the agents
40:54had dropped into France.
40:55The Germans know exactly
40:56who's coming and when.
40:58And that realisation
41:00that the Germans
41:01were reading
41:01all the agents' mail
41:03must have been
41:04such a shocking revelation
41:06to Vera.
41:07And then it leads
41:09to the next question,
41:10who had betrayed them.
41:17How did Kiefer
41:18get the mail?
41:21Kiefer told me
41:22that he got it
41:24from Gilbert.
41:38Yes.
41:40I believe that's him.
41:46Gilbert
41:46is the codename
41:48for
41:48French agent
41:50Henri Deracore.
41:59How lovely to see you.
42:01Likewise.
42:01The man
42:02S.O.E.
42:03had trusted
42:03with the safety
42:04of their agents
42:05appears to be
42:06a traitor.
42:09Deracore
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.
42:19Deracore pleaded
42:20his innocence
42:21and after
42:22an investigation
42:23Don't worry,
42:24Deracore.
42:25We'll clear
42:26this whole
42:26sorry business up.
42:27Thanks, sir.
42:29He is cleared.
42:32Vera is put
42:34in a position
42:34where she either
42:35believes a Nazi
42:36or a possible
42:38double agent.
42:39Henri Deracore
42:40is in the heart
42:41of the S.O.E.
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, surely
42:52everybody knows him.
42:54But how did
42:55the Nazis
42:55know so much?
42:57How is it possible?
42:58And here is Gertz
43:00saying,
43:01well, you know this.
43:02I'm telling you
43:03the truth.
43:03And it must have
43:05been such a worm
43:07in her mind.
43:08Was Deracore
43:09a spy,
43:10a double agent?
43:12So who
43:13is telling the truth?
43:15Deracore
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 you
43:25don't trust.
43:26And in this case,
43:27she's talking to
43:28people like Dr. Gertz
43:29from the S.D.
43:30And it's in his
43:32vested interest
43:33and has been
43:33for years
43:34to play
43:36cat and mouse games
43:37with the SOE
43:38and with people
43:39like Vera.
43:39And so she has
43:40to decide,
43:41well, can I trust
43:42somebody like Dr. 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 Nazi
44:00intelligence
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 of Vera's work
44:23comes into question
44:24when she receives
44:25a letter
44:25forwarded by her superior,
44:28Norman Mott.
44:31The letter
44:32is written
44:33by Yolande
44:34Lagrave,
44:35a member
44:35of the French
44:36resistance.
44:39Lagrave writes
44:40that in June
44:411943,
44:43she was arrested
44:44by the Gestapo
44:45and transferred
44:46to Pforzheim prison.
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 out.
45:07I heard the blows
45:08which she received
45:09from the prison guards.
45:10She was taken away
45:12from Pforzheim
45:13in September
45:141944.
45:15Before she left,
45:17she had been able
45:18to send me
45:19not her name
45:20because it was
45:20too dangerous
45:21but her alias
45:22and she also
45:23wrote down
45:23her address
45:24for me.
45:25It was this.
45:26Nora Baker,
45:28Radio Centre
45:29Officer Service,
45:30RAF,
45:314 Taveston Street,
45:32London.
45:33I kept the address
45:35on a piece of paper
45:36sewn into my hand.
45:39Nora Inayat Khan
45:41had been recruited
45:42as a wireless operator
45:43from the WAF,
45:44the women's division
45:46of the RAF.
45:494 Taveston Street,
45:50London had once
45:51been her family's home
45:53and Nora Baker
45:55had once
45:56been her alias.
46:10Vera believes
46:11the prisoner
46:11La Grave writes
46:12about
46:13is Noor.
46:15And if Noor
46:16had been held
46:17at Pforzheim
46:18until September
46:191944,
46:21then there is no way
46:22she could have been
46:23one of the four women
46:24killed at Natsviler
46:25in July 1944.
46:29When Vera learns
46:30about Noor's fate
46:31and the fact
46:32that she's gone
46:32to Pforzheim,
46:33it's such a mix
46:34of emotions
46:35because here
46:36she thought,
46:36she's written
46:37to the family
46:37that Noor
46:39has been killed
46:39in Natsviler.
46:40She has internalised
46:42that now,
46:43dealt with that,
46:44thought there's been
46:44some closure
46:45and now this has
46:46opened up something else.
46:47Could Noor be alive?
46:49Did she manage
46:49to get out?
46:50What happened to her?
46:51So she is in a space
46:53where now she has
46:54to find out
46:54the final journey.
46:56She has to find out
46:57if she escaped,
46:57there is a sliver
46:58of hope,
46:59but also what could
47:00have happened to Noor.
47:01So what did
47:03happen to Noor?
47:05If she wasn't killed
47:07at Natsviler,
47:08could Noor
47:09still be alive?
47:11Vera has to uncover
47:13the truth.
47:42We'll see you next time.
48:02We'll see you next time.
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