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00:03In the Second World War, British spy agency, the SOE, send more and more female agents behind enemy lines.
00:20With D-Day on the horizon, these women, handpicked by spymaster Vera Atkins,
00:27make daring attacks against Hitler's troops from deep inside Nazi-occupied France.
00:41But, as the Allies push towards Paris,
00:46the Gestapo brutally cracks down.
00:50Unfortunately, some of your agents had to be shot.
00:57What the hell are they playing at?
00:59One by one, Vera's women disappear.
01:03We can't be captured.
01:08Hide what you can, then hide yourself.
01:13We go now. Move!
01:15Halt!
01:29You go. I'll send them off as long as I can. Go! Go!
01:39But, with France liberated, and the Nazis defeated, many are still missing.
01:47Vera's mission was to send these women to war.
01:52Now, she'll do whatever it takes to find them and bring them home.
02:11The Allied invasion of Europe to recapture France from the Nazis has begun.
02:17On the ground.
02:37The French resistance,
02:39the French resistance,
02:39supplied and coordinated by SOE,
02:42launch into action.
02:46The French resistance,
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,
03:06trying to disrupt the train lines,
03:08trying to disrupt communication lines,
03:10blow up bridges, blowing up telephone exchanges,
03:13to try and disrupt the Germans as much as possible.
03:18It's chaotic, but it's exhilarating.
03:21In the flurry of messages coming in from their agents,
03:26they receive one that is unusual.
03:29Sir, message from Paul's sign Leopold.
03:34Leopold?
03:37Leopold is inactive. He was arrested in 43.
03:42Thank you for the large delivery of weapons and ammunition.
03:45Incredibly 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.
04:14Equipment 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
04:58continue 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.
05:35Wireless messages of German targets being hit
05:38continue to stream in.
05:42Sabotage by those SOE networks
05:45was absolutely crucial during D-Day.
05:49And the Germans were so angry at this success
05:53that an order went out to hunt down Vera's agents.
06:00Just days after D-Day, F-Section received news
06:04on 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
06:25is just unthinkable.
06:28Where?
06:31The report is brief.
06:36Does it say where she's being held?
06:41It just says captured.
06:43Nothing else.
06:58In the Limousin region of France,
07:01resistance fighters pull off an audacious mission.
07:05They have kidnapped the commander of the 2nd SS Panzer Division,
07:10Das 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-Glane
07:36to send a bloody message to the French people.
07:44In London, F-Section monitors sabotage attacks across France.
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?
08:29The SS.
08:33The Resistance captured their commander.
08:42They massacred a village.
08:45What?
08:48Over 600 dead.
08:51Women.
08:53Children.
09:00I 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-Glane
09:25really is shocking for Buckmaster,
09:28that the Germans have sunk so low
09:30that they'll massacre innocent women and children.
09:35Where did this happen?
09:43Um...
09:44Um...
09:49Um...
09:51Um...
09:51Limousin.
09:54Limousin.
10:03Violet was operating out of the blimison before 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
10:44Organising weapons drops, ammunitions, explosives
10:48For the French resistance to stop the Germans being able to defend themselves against the Allied attack
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
11:13In the Jura region, which is to the east of France
11:17Authorise the drop
11:20On the 25th of June 1944
11:2232 flying fortresses
11:25Were flown over by the RAF
11:29And they released
11:31440 parachutes
11:32And attached to those parachutes
11:34Were canisters full of weapons
11:36And explosives and arms
11:38And equipment needed by the resistance
11:44It's the largest daylight parachute drop of the war
11:47Hidden at the drop zone
11:49Is Yvonne
11:51With a team of resistance fighters
11:55It took 48 hours for those canisters to be emptied
11:59And for the equipment to be stored
12:01Meaning that every minute and every hour that went by
12:04They 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
12:13Hope was attached to them
12:21After a frantic two days on the ground
12:25Yvonne and her team are exhausted
12:28With the last container collected
12:30They leave the drop zone
12:32And head back to their headquarters
12:46At F section
12:47Messages from the circuits flood in
12:51Targets are being hit
12:53The resistance are taking the fight
12:55To the Germans
12:56Across the country
13:00But that's tinged with uncertainty
13:04What about the agents
13:06How many have survived
13:09How many have the Germans managed to capture
13:13Then F section finally receives the report
13:17They've been waiting for
13:21Eva, what is it?
13:34Violet is with two resistance men
13:37And they're driving to meet other SOE leaders
13:40But what they don't know
13:42Is the resistance have caught
13:44One of the SS commanders of the 2nd Panzer Division
13:47And the Germans are frantic to get him back
13:50They start mounting roadblocks
13:52And they start searching people
13:54Asking everybody for their papers
13:55Where were they when this happened?
14:00No
14:01What?
14:03I thought you said this road was clear
14:07It was
14:08What?
14:09It was
14:10It's a new checkpoint
14:11They can't search us
14:13I know
14:13They can't search us
14:15If they search the car
14:16They'll find our weapons
14:16We have British weapons
14:19If they search the car
14:20They'll know we're resistance
14:26We can't be captured
14:28Stop the car
14:40We make for the woods
14:42Try to lose them
14:45We go now
14:46Move
14:50Halt
15:10As Violet's escaping
15:12She twists her ankle
15:14It was already damaged
15:15From the parachute drop she'd done
15:17During training as an SOE agent
15:30Are you hit?
15:31No
15:32It's my ankle
15:33Can you walk on it?
15:34No
15:34You go
15:36I'll fend them off
15:37As long as I can
15:38Go
15:40Go
15:42She's basically immobile
15:44At this point
15:45So she provides cover fire
15:47For the resistance men
15:49So that they can get away
15:51I'll fend them off
15:52I'll fend them off
15:54I'll fend them off
15:57I'll fend them off
15:58I'll fend them off
15:59I'll fend them off
16:03I'll fend them off
16:05I'll fend them off
16:05I'll fend them off
16:06I'll fend them off
16:06I'll fend them off
16:08I'll fend them off
16:08I'll fend them off
16:10I'll fend them off
16:10I'll fend them off
16:11I'll fend them off
16:11I'll fend them off
16:12I'll fend them off
16:13I'll fend them off
16:13I'll fend them off
16:13I'll fend them off
16:14I'll fend them off
16:15I'll fend them off
16:38The report ends.
16:42Violette 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,
17:17the Nazis are forced to abandon the French capital.
17:26The liberation of Paris was the moment everybody had been waiting for.
17:31The relief of finally being able to be in the city
17:34and 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 travelling, he's lecturing to Allied forces
17:55on the conditions in France.
17:57Buckmaster himself has set up in the Hotel Cecil in Paris.
18:01And he will then very quickly start a tour of the surviving circuits.
18:08At F-Section, work begins to slow down and staff start to leave.
18:16But disturbing reports are coming in about the fate of SOE's agents.
18:22Vera is tasked with making sense of them all.
18:26Goodbye, Miss Atkins.
18:28Sorry, a flight, Officer Atkins.
18:31Yes, goodbye.
18:33Goodbye.
18:37But Vera, no longer a civilian and now commissioned
18:41in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, stays in London.
18:50Paris is back in Allied hands.
18:54But the victory came at a huge cost to SOE's agents.
18:59It was understood that the casualty numbers would be quite high,
19:04particularly surrounding the D-Day landings.
19:09Many more female agents had been sent out in 1944 than before.
19:14And this was Vera's responsibility.
19:17She's the one who's sent them to France in the first place.
19:21With Paris liberated, the human toll of this decision comes into focus.
19:29Of the more than 400 SOE agents dispatched to France,
19:34118 are missing.
19:3716 of them are Vera's women.
19:58After the liberation at the hotel where F Section have set up a new office,
20:02a man turns up and he's angry.
20:06He's furious.
20:09Marcel Rousset, an F Section agent with the codename Leopold,
20:14demands to see anyone in the British Secret Service.
20:22I'm sorry to interrupt, but do you think you could fetch someone from SOE for me?
20:26Now!
20:27He had been captured by the Gestapo,
20:29and in fact it was even his radio that was used by the Gestapo
20:33to send the taunting signals to SOE headquarters on D-Day.
20:40Hello, I'm Nancy. How can I help?
20:42It's my only chance.
20:43He is angry.
20:45He's absolutely furious at mistakes that SOE has made,
20:50that so many agents have been captured.
20:53Please take a seat here, sir.
20:56An SOE officer sits down with Rousset
20:59for a debriefing on his time in captivity.
21:02He might know who has actually been arrested by the Gestapo.
21:06He might know who has survived.
21:09So, Buckmaster...
21:11Rousset says how stupid everyone at F Section had been,
21:16particularly Buckmaster and Vera,
21:18and how they had risked agents' lives.
21:22I would love to meet him based on that.
21:24The SD, Sicherheitsdienst,
21:26force him to relay radio messages back to London,
21:29and he quite deliberately, totally follows SOE protocol,
21:33which is that he doesn't include special code words
21:37as a warning to SOE,
21:40but they just ignored this
21:42and continued to accept the messages
21:45that came from his radio as genuine.
21:50His interrogation report is explosive
21:53and provides Vera with important leads
21:57to the whereabouts of her missing agents.
22:06At F Section,
22:08Vera receives Rousset's interrogation report.
22:15After his arrest,
22:17he's taken to the SD headquarters in Paris
22:22at 84 Avenue Foch.
22:27The SD is the SS intelligence agency
22:31and worked hand-in-hand with the Gestapo.
22:35Here, Rousset is confronted
22:38with Prosper's wireless operator,
22:41Gilbert Norman, codenamed Butcher.
22:45It was Norman who told the Germans
22:47that Rousset was SOE,
22:50wireless operator, Leopold.
22:54And he also tells Rousset
22:56that the Gestapo know everything
22:58about SOE and their activities.
23:06So, Suttel,
23:08who was the organiser of that circuit,
23:10and Norman,
23:11had given up everything
23:12about the Prosper circuit in Paris
23:16in order to try and save his life
23:19and maybe other agents' lives as well.
23:22Rousset is advised to do the same.
23:27Had he given up every piece of information?
23:29What had he told them?
23:31Can you imagine how awful it was for Vera
23:33just finding out
23:35that they could have revealed so much
23:37that every time Vera sent a woman over,
23:40she was just basically feeding them
23:42straight into the German prison.
23:46In the Gestapo's cells,
23:49Rousset is held in solitary confinement.
23:53But, by tapping on the wall in Morse code,
23:56he manages to communicate
23:58with an SOE agent in the cell next to his.
24:02Rousset learns that a wireless operator
24:05with the codename Madeleine
24:07is also being held by the Nazis.
24:11Noor Inyat Khan goes under the codename Madeleine.
24:16Noor hadn't surfaced
24:18after the liberation of Paris.
24:22Vera assumed she'd been captured,
24:25but no further intel had been discovered.
24:31Rousset's report suggests
24:33that Noor had been in the Gestapo's prison in Paris.
24:39His report continues.
24:43From Paris,
24:44the women prisoners were then transferred to Germany.
24:49This is news to Vera.
24:52She wasn't aware
24:53that any female prisoners
24:55have been transferred to Germany.
24:57Where were they?
24:58Where have they gone?
25:01Could those women have been her agents?
25:03Could one of them have been Noor?
25:07Frustratingly,
25:08Rousset's intel now dries up.
25:12He remains in the Gestapo's prison,
25:14working as a cleaner
25:15until two days after D-Day.
25:20Noticing a gate unlocked,
25:23he knocks out a guard
25:24and makes his escape.
25:49Vera haunts the F-Section operations room,
25:54waiting for any news on her missing,
25:56women's spies.
26:01Then, a report comes in
26:04from a member of Yvonne Basden's SOE circuit.
26:11After Yvonne and her colleagues
26:12had hidden all the equipment
26:14that had come in
26:15on this daylight parachute drop,
26:17they headed back to their headquarters.
26:22But soon after they arrive,
26:24everything changes.
26:29The Germans, they're coming.
26:31What?
26:32We've spotted a patrol of German soldiers.
26:34They're heading for us.
26:35Do we have time to move?
26:37No.
26:39Hide what you can,
26:40then hide yourself.
26:53The Germans who arrived,
26:54they just heard a tip-off
26:56that this building
26:57might be of some interest
26:58and they're just going
27:00to do a cursory search.
27:25There is literally nobody in sight.
27:27They can't find anybody.
27:28So they leave,
27:30but they just leave behind one person.
27:33He's effectively watching it
27:35just in case something happens
27:36or somebody arrives.
27:37One can only imagine
27:39what would be going through
27:40the minds of Yvonne and her team
27:42as they are hiding,
27:43holding their breath,
27:44not moving,
27:45because they have to be totally quiet.
27:48And then the plumbing makes a noise.
27:57Hello?
28:00Is there anybody in there?
28:08I heard something.
28:10Keep searching.
28:37I heard something about me.
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
29:06some agents are surfacing after the liberation of paris
29:13one 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
29:55are
29:55the work is all-encompassing
29:59searching for any trace of where her agents were transported to in germany
30:06and where they could be rescued from once the allies are victorious
30:12in 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
30:32by piecing together what happened there maybe 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
31:49it'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 is known
32:21about them
32:25before noor departed for france vera had promised to send her mother periodic good news letters which she had
32:36but now the tone of these letters has to change from all the reports of nor's training everybody was
32:45saying that she wasn't ready but 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
33:07touch with 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 of war
33:26just 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 the
33:41nazis could do whatever they liked with them she also has fear about her own future because once it
33:49is revealed in the public that something has happened to these women she's also fearful about the
33:54consequences for her as the person who sent them out i would impress upon you in the interests of your
34:05daughter's safety that you make no inquiries with regard to her except through me
34:24by january 1945 the allies are making steady gains and nazi germany is on its knees
34:43but many agents are still missing despite 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 is to give the names of her agents
35:09to the allied troops so that when they liberate camps and prisoners of war they can see if any of
35:15her
35:15agents are prisoners they can rescue them at the height of f section operations vera is buckmaster's
35:22right-hand man she's right in the center of all of the major decisions but once f section is over
35:28and
35:28buckmaster is gone it becomes incredibly difficult to convince anybody that her plight within soe is worth
35:35pursuing particularly john center the head of soe's security division and a commander in the royal navy
35:47atkins 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 the soviet army
36:15yes sir so that once those forces begin liberating pow camps they will have a register of all of our
36:22missing agents
36:28atkins 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 let me remind you you are addressing a commander in the royal navy
36:58the war is not yet over how long do you think it would be before the germans also got to
37:06see those names
37:09why should we advertise who our agents are on a register for our enemies to see
37:17sir the germans are spent this is our best chance of finding our agents women agents alive
37:31consider your request denied on security grounds
37:36he's wanting to find out where were the security leaks in soe he's not interested in the fate of the
37:43missing agents
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
37:59find out what's happened to these agents because unless she finds out who will
38:10in 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 next to the name of one of the prisoners
38:34is n and n this means nacht und nebel or night and fog the nacht und nebel order was decreed
38:43by hitler
38:44that people who have been involved in espionage or resistance are to him so despicable that they have
38:52to be punished in an extraordinary way not only will they be captured interrogated tortured and then
38:59killed but they're supposed to disappear without a trace they will disappear as into night and fog
39:07dying time is running out to find her missing women alive
39:20by april 1945 germany is in total collapse
39:27the foreign office now they want to release the soe agents names
39:33vera is allowed to issue the names of her agents so that people liberating these prisoner of war
39:39camps can find them if they are found there is now a register for their return to britain
39:48if they survived
40:06on the 30th of april 1945 with berlin all but captured by the red army
40:15hitler commits suicide
40:23by the 8th of may the allies accept nazi germany's unconditional surrender the war in europe is over
40:48amid the celebrations in london vera gets news that gives her hope her agents survived
40:57on the 20th of may 1945 yvonne basden captured and missing turns up at euston station in london
41:12miss harkins how did you get here
41:15here
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 Basin
41:53back to her family home
41:55in Brockwood Park in London
42:03Yvonne
42:07Yvonne
42:17please come here
42:19please come here
42:36you
42:37look weak
42:40let me make you
42:42something to eat
43:05what happened after
43:07you were captured
43:09did you see anyone else
43:10other agents
43:18Yvonne
43:19I need you to think
43:28after I was caught
43:30they sent me east
43:34to a prison
43:38to a place
43:39to a place called
43:39to a place called
43:40Starbrocken
43:44there I started seeing
43:46some
43:48some familiar faces
43:49agents
43:51I'd been in training with
43:54I saw
43:57they've got the hold of Baker Street
44:02I didn't talk to them
44:06I kept my distance
44:08I 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
44:24I couldn't let the Nazis
44:27know that I was an agent
44:31it was my only hope
44:32of getting out alive
44:39then
44:40then
44:40then
44:41then they moved us
44:41all to
44:44a 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
45:15concentration 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
46:06I never saw them again
46:13then the Russians came
46:15and liberated us
46:16the Red Cross
46:19took me to Malmo
46:20in Sweden
46:21in a bus
46:21the RAF
46:22flew me to
46:23Scotland
46:25I found a train
46:26to 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
47:10happy to find
47:11Yvonne
47:11it might be possible
47:13she's able to trace
47:14all of her missing
47:15agents
47:19but had they
47:20survived
47:21and where
47:22were they all
47:23now
47:23I don't know
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