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00:03World War II is over, but British women agents remain missing throughout Europe.
00:14The other English women, how many were there?
00:18Answer me!
00:20Nazi radio mastermind Josef Goertz gives spymaster Vera Atkins an explosive testimony.
00:28Yes, I believe that's him.
00:31Implicating Henri Derricourt as the double agent who betrays the British SOE to the Gestapo.
00:42Derricourt is arrested in Paris, but has Vera really got the man who betrayed her women agents?
00:52Whitehall has closed down the special operations executive.
00:58But Vera has evidence from a French resistance fighter that her agent, Noor Inayat Khan, could still be alive.
01:07Vera will not give up.
01:10One agent who does make it back alive is Odette Sansom.
01:14She is driven out of Ravensbrück concentration camp by its commandant, Fritz Søren.
01:20This man is a walker.
01:22Søren is now on the run.
01:25But his deputy, Johann Schwarzhuber...
01:28What happened to her?
01:29They were shot.
01:31...is in custody, awaiting the Ravensbrück trial.
01:46It's the 5th of December, 1946.
01:50In Hamburg, in the British zone of occupied Germany,
01:55The Ravensbrück trial begins.
02:00The defendants are concentration camp personnel from all divisions of the camp.
02:07SS officers.
02:09Camp doctors.
02:11Female guards.
02:13It is a Nazi camp like no other.
02:18Ravensbrück was a concentration camp, and unlike every other concentration camp,
02:23it was a concentration camp for women.
02:28It was particularly horrifying.
02:30For the sensibilities of people in the 1940s as well,
02:34where women are meant to be kept out of combat, out of war,
02:36and treated with some level of humanity,
02:39Ravensbrück was a particular horrific site to end up in.
02:47The Ravensbrück trial is important, and it's unique,
02:50because of the treatment of prisoners within the camp.
02:54In particular, the medical experiments that had been carried out
02:57for sterilisations, for example.
03:04Vera's role in the trial is to manage the extensive evidence
03:08she has brought together, passing it on to the prosecutors.
03:16But she must not reveal her role to the international press.
03:35The trial features one of the camp's most notorious SS officers.
03:44Johann Schwarzhuber.
03:47He is about to face one of his accusers.
03:52Barrister, could you please say who this man in front of us is?
03:56Johann Schwarzhuber.
04:00And who is your next witness?
04:04Adette Sansom.
04:09Odette Sansom is a star witness for the prosecution,
04:13giving damning testimony about what happened at the camp,
04:17at the hands of Schwarzhuber and others.
04:22The court hears from Odette and other witnesses
04:27about the treatment of female agent Violette Sabo,
04:31who is described talking about
04:34my baby, my baby,
04:37her young child left behind in Britain.
04:46and how Violette and two other agents,
04:51Lillian Rolfe
04:52and Denise Block,
04:55are brought from the punishment block,
04:58emaciated, dirty, and weak.
05:06They are then taken behind the crematorium building
05:11and shot.
05:14The trial would have been difficult for Vera
05:17as the witnesses took the stands,
05:19although she'd probably already interviewed
05:20some of them previously,
05:22she may have compartmentalised it in some way.
05:26But having seen and spoken to
05:29and befriended the agents
05:30that she had sent into the field,
05:32the realisation of what these women had sacrificed
05:36and what the overarching impact
05:38on their families were going to be,
05:40it must have been harrowing for her.
05:45At the end of the trial,
05:47Schwarzhuber is sentenced to death
05:51and executed on the 3rd of May, 1947.
05:56Five of the female guards
05:58are also executed.
06:01Fritz Suren, the commandant,
06:03remains a fugitive from justice.
06:07But before the closing statements are finished,
06:11Vera is already on her way to try
06:14and track down the last of her lost women spies,
06:17Nor Inayat Khan.
06:31Previously, Vera received a letter
06:34from a French resistance fighter,
06:36Yolande Lagrave,
06:39claiming she had contact with Nor
06:40in a prison in Pforzheim
06:42in the west of Germany.
06:49This directly contradicted Vera's evidence
06:52from crematorium stoker Franz Berg.
06:55He claimed that Nor was killed
06:57at the Natsviler concentration camp
07:00in France.
07:03Vera already has an eyewitness testimony
07:06from Natsviler saying that Nor is dead.
07:08And now she has another eyewitness testimony
07:10saying, no, that is not true,
07:12she is here.
07:12What eyewitness do you trust?
07:15How does Vera make this decision?
07:18She needs some sort of corroborating evidence
07:21to prove one way or the other.
07:26So what did happen to Nor?
07:30Vera needs another witness statement.
07:35So she decides to interrogate
07:38one particular Gestapo soldier
07:40for a second time.
07:44Max Vassmer transported SOE agents
07:48to Dachau concentration camp
07:50in September 1944.
07:56Vassmer claims that he transferred
07:59three women to the camp.
08:01Even though other witnesses say
08:03there was a fourth woman.
08:06A woman from Pforzheim prison.
08:17Three.
08:19You're sure it was three?
08:23Three women.
08:26Not men.
08:27Women.
08:32Because the other guards
08:34say you're wrong.
08:41The receipt
08:42said three women.
08:46That is not
08:47what I asked.
08:48did you take
08:50three women?
08:57Three.
08:58Four.
08:59What's the difference?
09:00It's all
09:01the difference.
09:09So it was four.
09:18three from Carl Sragoa.
09:22And
09:23another.
09:27From
09:30Pforzheim,
09:31I think.
09:36Please tell me
09:37what they looked like.
09:39All of them.
09:44She looked like
09:47she may have been
09:48Indian.
09:59Vassmer describes
10:01the fourth woman
10:04giving a description
10:06of a woman
10:07who Vera believes
10:10is
10:11Nor
10:11Inayat Khan.
10:30Vassmer reveals
10:32that Nor
10:33is taken
10:33outside the camp
10:34with the other women
10:36and made
10:37and made to kneel
10:37in front of a mound
10:38of earth.
10:42The only word
10:43Nor says
10:44before she is shot
10:46is the French word
10:47for freedom.
10:49Liberté.
10:55Thank you,
10:56Herr Vassmer.
11:00We're done.
11:03Vera can now put to rest
11:05her quest
11:06to find out Nor's story
11:08and her final resting place,
11:10the concentration camp
11:12at Dachau.
11:21Now,
11:22Vera must ask
11:23the hardest question
11:24of all.
11:26Who betrayed
11:27her women agents?
11:30Who is the person
11:32that betrayed Nor,
11:35Violette Sabo,
11:37and all of Vera's
11:39other women spies,
11:41so they ended up
11:42in the hands
11:43of the Nazis?
11:46Could it have been
11:48Henri Derricourt?
11:50There were allegations,
11:52but Vera
11:53still doesn't know
11:54for sure.
11:58The man who would know
12:01is Hans Kiefer,
12:05the man in charge
12:06of Nazi intelligence
12:08in Paris.
12:12To find him,
12:14Vera needs
12:15the SAS.
12:23SAS intelligence officer
12:25Major Bill Barkworth
12:26and his men
12:27stake out a small town
12:29in southern Germany.
12:34They've received
12:35a tip-off
12:36from Vera
12:36that Hans Kiefer
12:38has been spotted here.
12:40It is Kiefer's
12:41hometown.
12:42They're looking
12:43for the caretaker
12:44of a local hotel
12:46who signs
12:47the town hall register
12:48as Hans Kiefer.
12:50The name
12:51is suspiciously similar
12:53with only one F
12:54removed.
12:55.
12:55.
12:55.
12:57.
13:07.
13:08.
13:08I don't know.
13:44Hans-Joseph Kieffer, senior counterintelligence officer, 84 Avenue 4, Paris.
13:55Get him out of here.
14:04Barkworth and Vera have their man.
14:08Now, it is their chance to find out who betrayed all of Vera's women agents.
14:18It is January 1947.
14:22Vera is face to face with her secret enemy, Hans Kieffer.
14:29Hans Kieffer is a lifelong Nazi, so he joined the Nazi party in the early 1920s, so very,
14:35very early on.
14:36And he rises to become, during the war, the head of the Gestapo and SS operation runner
14:42in Paris.
14:46So this was an operation specifically aimed at hunting down mostly special operations
14:53executive agents in the field, so agents of the SOE in France.
14:57But the thing about Hans Kieffer is he's a fascinating individual because he's not like you would imagine
15:02your archetypal SS bruiser.
15:05He's a subtle, wily, clever fox.
15:11Vera has waited almost two years for this moment.
15:15The chance to interrogate the man who could answer all her questions.
15:21The man who holds the key to her lost women's spies.
15:26And what really happened to Knorr, codename Madeleine.
15:33Berlin considered the French section of SOE particularly dangerous.
15:39Both the Führer and Himmler had shown a personal interest.
16:08I remember, Madeleine.
16:16Refused to cooperate.
16:20Unlike the others.
16:25She tried to escape with a group of male agents.
16:31It would have ruined us if she made it back to SOE.
16:35Ruined me.
16:38So, I sent her away.
16:43She ended up in Fortsheim, I think.
16:51She was a brave one.
17:00Her name was Knorr Inayat Khan.
17:05She is most likely dead.
17:09Shot through the head at Dachau.
17:19Kiefer, if one of us is going to cry, it is going to be me.
17:23You will please stop this comedy.
17:30Who betrayed them, Kiefer?
17:34Who betrayed Knorr?
17:39You're asking me if there was a traitor in your ranks?
17:48Why are you asking me?
17:52You know yourself?
17:54There was one.
17:57You recalled him to London.
18:01Gilbert?
18:07And who is Gilbert?
18:11I think you're now.
18:15Of course you're now.
18:19Only there he goes.
18:40Here, at last, is Vera's definitive proof that Henri Derricor is the double agent.
18:48Don't worry, Derricor.
18:50We'll clear this whole sorry business up.
18:53Thanks, sir.
18:54Despite Buckmaster and Boddington's investigation clearing him.
19:04There is no doubt in Vera's mind that with all the resistance evidence coming in,
19:09all of the information that Kiefer knows about Derricor, obviously, now, for Vera,
19:15she knows Derricor is the mole.
19:18He is a double agent.
19:20He's the reason that all of her agents, or a lot of them, ended up in concentration camps.
19:25He's the reason that they were murdered, and the anger that must have pulsed through her at that point.
19:31This isn't a sinking feeling anymore.
19:33This is something that she needs justice for.
19:38Now, Vera has a star witness who can testify against, and hopefully convict, Henri Derricor.
20:09Here is Vera's chance for justice.
20:15Vera had spent the last few years building up her case against Henri Derricor.
20:20I mean, she had everything.
20:22Now she was a civilian, obviously, she wasn't leading the prosecution,
20:25so she couldn't determine what evidence they were going to use in court against him.
20:29But she had so much.
20:31She had, like, affidavits from actual Nazi war criminals who named him.
20:35She had all of the evidence that she'd gathered from her own agents.
20:40She had all the evidence from the French resistance.
20:43Henri Derricor was at the centre of this web of lies,
20:47and she could prove it.
20:49It was all right there.
20:50She must have felt so confident when they entered the courtroom.
20:54But it is soon clear it may not be as easy as Vera hopes.
21:02It's now been over a year since Vera interrogated Hans Kieffer.
21:07She is told that in June 1947,
21:12Kieffer was convicted of the murder of five SAS men
21:15and executed before he can give evidence at the Derricor trial.
21:24Hans Kieffer would have known more than anybody else
21:27about every single agent who was arrested when and how and the radio game
21:32and also what informers he was using.
21:34So one might think that his evidence would have been,
21:38or a statement at least,
21:39would have been crucial to the eventual trial of Henri Derricor as a traitor.
21:47I mean, there's a potential conspiracy theory around the fact
21:51that he was deliberately executed
21:53so that he couldn't reveal the full extent of the SOE failings
21:58and disastrous infiltrations.
22:02Next, Vera discovers the statement which she extracted from Kieffer
22:06is not going to be put before the court.
22:10Finally, no former SOE officers will appear in court to give evidence.
22:20But on the final day,
22:23one former officer does make the trip to Paris.
22:29None other than Nicholas Boddington.
22:37Could Boddington be the man
22:39to help get Derricor convicted?
22:50Boddington gives evidence.
22:52But instead of giving evidence against Derricor,
22:55Boddington testifies
22:56that Derricor's contact with the Nazis
22:59was fully authorised for counter-espionage purposes.
23:09Henri Derricor is found not to be a traitor.
23:14Instead, partially thanks to Boddington's testimony,
23:17he is acquitted.
23:20Derricor is a free man.
23:23Vera has to face the possibility
23:26that her women agents were compromised
23:29so that Derricor could supply intelligence to London
23:32about the Nazis.
23:34Put yourself in Vera's boots.
23:36She's been trying to prosecute Henri Derricor for years.
23:39And here, it's almost like a farcical trial.
23:43And not only does the prosecution not really try and pin him down
23:46and brings virtually no witnesses,
23:48but the defence, they bring Boddington.
23:52Like, this is a man that Vera's worked with.
23:54And he knows what she's been doing.
23:57He knows that she's desperately been trying
23:59to bring justice to all the women
24:01who, some of them were tortured to death.
24:03And she feels responsible for that
24:06because she's the person who sent them out there.
24:09How could you, Nick?
24:10Vera.
24:11How could you support that traitor?
24:15Testify for him after everything he did to my agents,
24:18our agents.
24:20Vera.
24:20You're a liar.
24:22Everything I said was true.
24:24You're a liar.
24:26Vera, Derricor's contact with the SD was authorised.
24:30I sent my girls to war
24:32with no protection under the Geneva Convention.
24:35If they were made as spies, they faced certain death.
24:39You sent them to their deaths.
24:43You sent a widow with a young daughter to France.
24:46That child is now an orphan.
24:49You pulled Nora out of training early
24:51because you needed a wireless operator.
24:54You volunteered for this job.
24:56Begged Buckmaster to play with the big boys.
24:59Don't forget that.
25:02I don't know you, Nick.
25:04You never did.
25:07It appears that the men at the top of the British establishment
25:11want the true story of the women spies to be lost permanently.
25:20But others are now interested
25:22in what happened to Vera's spies.
25:26In the early 1950s, writer Jean Overton Fuller
25:31begins researching a series of books about the SOE.
25:36Jean wants to find out what happened to her friend Noor Inayat Khan,
25:41who disappeared during the war
25:43after telling Jean she was going away.
25:49Despite being warned off by establishment figures,
25:53Fuller interviews former members of the SOE,
25:56and one man in particular.
26:12Her work results in three books about the SOE,
26:17with the last called Double Webs, published in 1958.
26:23The book makes the controversial claim
26:26that Noor and other agents
26:28are sent by the SOE
26:30into the hands of Henri Derricourt,
26:33with the full knowledge
26:35that Derricourt is a double agent,
26:39working with the Nazis.
26:44The book makes headlines.
26:47Delivery for Mrs Ward!
26:48Several MPs receive letters
26:50from the families of lost women spies
26:53wanting to know the whole truth
26:55about their daughters.
27:02One MP is Conservative member for Tyneside,
27:06Irene Ward.
27:11Irene, through the Home Office,
27:13requests an interview
27:15with someone who knows what happened.
27:18The Home Office sends Vera.
27:32Overton Fuller writes, and I quote,
27:35I have read the book, Mrs Ward.
27:43It's a shame, really,
27:45that accuracy appears to be secondary concern.
27:50I find these things of such importance.
27:59You're disputing that Henri Derricourt was a double agent?
28:04Perhaps you could ask him yourself.
28:06I'm sure Miss Overton Fuller could direct you to him.
28:13Miss Atkins,
28:16what concerns me
28:18is that the SOE,
28:20that your superiors,
28:22that you,
28:23were sending women to fight
28:25in the full knowledge
28:26they had no chance to survive.
28:28Mrs Ward,
28:31what did you do
28:32during the war?
28:34I served my constituents.
28:44Atkins,
28:46your mother's name,
28:48I believe.
28:50Your father's name,
28:52Rose.
28:55Rosenberg,
28:56if I'm not mistaken.
28:59And you're from Romania,
29:01originally.
29:04How did a young Romanian girl
29:06like yourself
29:07and...
29:07I'm so sorry, Mrs Ward,
29:09but I have another meeting.
29:15Good day, Miss Atkins.
29:18See yourself out, please.
29:24After the meeting,
29:25Irene Ward
29:26digs into Vera's
29:28personal history,
29:29who she is,
29:30where she comes from,
29:32and what she really did
29:33at SOE.
29:40Irene Ward's digging
29:42threatens to reveal
29:43the story
29:44of the lost women spies.
29:47The security establishment
29:48goes into damage control.
29:52An academic
29:53called MRD Foote
29:55at the University of Oxford
29:57is engaged
29:58to produce
29:59an official history
30:00of the SOE.
30:04MRD Foote
30:05is ex-SAS.
30:06He also was captured
30:08in the war,
30:09and you've put in
30:10a prisoner of war camp
30:11in France.
30:12So he has all of this
30:13direct experience
30:14within the war,
30:15but he's also a historian.
30:16So he's got that authority
30:17as well.
30:18He understands
30:18how to write about history,
30:20and he understands
30:21that there are still
30:22some secrets
30:23that must stay secret.
30:26His exhaustive work
30:28concludes that...
30:30To the question
30:31of why people
30:32with so little training
30:33were sent
30:34to do such
30:35important work,
30:36the only reply
30:37is the work
30:39had to be done,
30:40and there was nobody
30:41else to send.
30:51Professor Foote.
30:53Before the book
30:54is published,
30:55Vera speaks to Foote
30:56and persuades him
30:58to omit
30:59her Romanian background
31:00from his history
31:01of SOE.
31:06So why does
31:07Vera hide
31:08who she really is?
31:09because Vera
31:11is forced
31:12to cover up
31:13not just her
31:13public story
31:14and the lost
31:15women's spies,
31:16but also
31:17the private story
31:18of her family's life.
31:32Miss Atkins,
31:33I would like
31:34three copies of this,
31:35please.
31:35One for the war...
31:36It was a closely
31:37guarded secret
31:38at SOE
31:39that Vera
31:40was born
31:40in Romania
31:41rather than
31:42the UK.
31:46But that
31:47wasn't Vera's
31:48only secret.
31:58Vera was not
32:00born Vera Atkins,
32:03but Vera
32:04Rosenberg.
32:07Vera is one
32:09of three children
32:09of Max
32:10and Hilda Rosenberg,
32:12who are both
32:13German Jews.
32:15Just before
32:16the First World War,
32:18Max purchases
32:19an estate
32:19and woodmill
32:21in Bukovina,
32:22a region
32:23that will become
32:23part of Romania.
32:28But after
32:29Vera's father
32:30dies in 1932,
32:311932 and with
32:33anti-Semitism
32:33in Europe
32:34on the rise,
32:35Vera and her
32:36two brothers
32:37move to the
32:38United Kingdom
32:41where they take
32:42their English
32:43mother's surname
32:44of Atkins.
32:48Vera leaves
32:49behind in Romania
32:50an extended family.
32:53As the Nazis
32:54take hold of Europe,
32:56the family who stay
32:57are in mortal danger.
33:01The terror
33:02that people live
33:03with cannot be
33:04underestimated,
33:05even if they
33:06weren't actually
33:07at direct risk
33:08of being moved
33:09to concentration
33:10camps.
33:10This isn't just
33:11my family,
33:12this isn't just
33:13my aunt and my
33:13dad and my
33:14direct family,
33:15this is everybody
33:16with Jewish family
33:17who were living
33:18in the UK
33:19and England
33:20at the time
33:20were terrified
33:21about what was
33:22going to happen
33:22to their relatives.
33:23And I think
33:24everybody wanted
33:25to do whatever
33:25they could to help.
33:30According to
33:30a family story,
33:32Vera's family
33:33in the UK
33:33raise a large
33:35amount of money
33:35to help
33:36their European
33:37relatives.
33:40My dad,
33:41my uncle
33:41and Vera
33:42were very keen
33:43to provide
33:44any help they could
33:45so they obviously
33:46found money
33:46and they found
33:47resources.
33:48But it was very
33:48clear that by
33:49this point
33:50to get money,
33:51to get resources,
33:51to get a logistical
33:52plan,
33:53you probably needed
33:54to go.
33:55You needed
33:55to leave England,
33:57you needed
33:57to get on a boat
33:58and you needed
33:58to go and
33:59practically help.
34:02Vera travels
34:03to Antwerp,
34:04Belgium,
34:04in 1940,
34:06just as the
34:07Nazis are about
34:08to invade.
34:17During the war,
34:18people would often
34:19store their wealth
34:20in something that
34:21could be more easily
34:22hidden and
34:23transported.
34:31Diamonds.
34:42For hundreds of years,
34:44Antwerp has been
34:45the center of the
34:46diamond trade
34:47in Europe.
34:50Vera is believed
34:51to have converted
34:52to have converted
34:53the money from
34:53the UK into
34:54diamonds for the
34:55family in Romania.
35:01But who are
35:02the relatives
35:03facing Nazi persecution
35:05that Vera wants
35:06to save?
35:16Fritz Rosenberg
35:18is Vera's cousin.
35:21Vera's relatives
35:22in the 1940s
35:23faced disaster.
35:30The region has been
35:32occupied by Hungary,
35:33an ally of Nazi Germany.
35:39under new anti-Jewish laws,
35:42Fritz and his wife Karen
35:44lose their passports.
35:46They may even be deported
35:48to concentration camps.
35:53But without a passport,
35:55they are unable to escape
35:56to another country.
36:00This rise in anti-Semitism
36:02in the law
36:03is reflected in the population.
36:05They wouldn't be able
36:06to trust their neighbours.
36:07They wouldn't be able
36:08to trust that at any point
36:10they might be snatched away
36:11in the middle of the night.
36:13They could be put on a train
36:14and taken to God knows where.
36:16I mean, it must have been
36:16absolutely terrifying for them.
36:20Karen Rosenberg
36:21contacts a German family friend.
36:25someone who has good contacts
36:28with the Abwehr,
36:29German military intelligence.
36:35Karen is able to obtain
36:37Aryan passports
36:39issued by the Nazi government
36:40for her and Fritz.
36:45The Rosenbergs pay the Abwehr
36:47a large sum,
36:49about £150,000 in today's money,
36:52to get the prized passports.
36:57Money that could be the diamonds
36:59that Vera sources in Antwerp.
37:02Karen and Fritz
37:03are able to leave Romania.
37:07They are free,
37:08but it's a freedom
37:10that comes at a personal cost.
37:20Fritz and Karen relocate
37:22to the safety of Istanbul,
37:26where Vera's brother,
37:28Ralph Rosenberg, lives.
37:32The reason they go to Istanbul
37:34is because of a condition
37:36set by the Abwehr.
37:42Vera's brother
37:43is not only working
37:45for an oil company
37:46in Istanbul,
37:47but also supplying MI6
37:50with local intelligence.
37:56The Abwehr want Karen
37:58to give them valuable information
38:00about Ralph and MI6.
38:10Vera had almost certainly
38:13gone to Antwerp
38:14to raise the money
38:15for Fritz and Karen's passports,
38:18the very passports
38:20that allow the Abwehr
38:21to get close
38:22to an MI6 agent.
38:25Vera has paid the bribe.
38:27She's possibly met
38:30German intelligence officers
38:31face-to-face.
38:33Karen herself
38:34has had contact
38:36with a German intelligence officer
38:38who's asked her
38:39to work for the Germans.
38:41It's beginning to look
38:43really suspicious.
38:44Anyone looking
38:45at this situation
38:47is going to start
38:48throwing suspicion
38:49on Vera
38:50and on the Rosenbergs.
38:52Are they loyal?
38:53What's going on here?
38:55It's opening
38:55a Pandora's box.
38:59Had it been known
39:00by the SOE
39:01that Vera
39:02had handed over money
39:04to get Aryan passports
39:05from the Abwehr,
39:07it would have put Vera
39:08under serious suspicion
39:10of being a double agent.
39:14Instead,
39:16Vera keeps her family story
39:18a closely guarded secret.
39:21and when the British
39:22security services
39:23publish MRD Foote's
39:25History of the SOE,
39:28Vera has all mention
39:29of her Romanian family roots
39:32erased.
39:34But despite the security services
39:37best attempts
39:37to cover up the story
39:39of the lost women spies,
39:42it's a story
39:43that just won't go away.
39:49After creating controversy
39:51with her book
39:52Double Webs,
39:53Jean Overton Fuller
39:55starts researching
39:56a new book.
39:57This time
39:58about Henri Derricor's
40:00relationship
40:01not with the Nazis
40:02but with MI6.
40:04The book is called
40:06The Checkered Spy
40:08and it claims Derricor
40:10wasn't just
40:11a double agent
40:12but that he was spying
40:14on the SOE
40:16on the orders
40:17of MI6.
40:19Derricor
40:20was MI6's mole
40:22at the heart
40:23of the SOE
40:25monitoring everything
40:26they were doing
40:27as MI6 believed
40:29that the SOE
40:31were incompetent.
40:35The suggestion
40:36is that members
40:37of the British
40:38security services
40:39knew that the women
40:40Vera trained
40:41like Noor Inayat Khan,
40:48like Violette Sabo,
40:51like Odette Sansom
40:53were being sent
40:54into the hands
40:55of a known double agent.
41:00But Henri Derricor
41:01never sees the day
41:03that the book
41:04is published.
41:31Sub-editor's desk.
41:34Boddington?
41:36Yes?
41:38It's Buckmaster.
41:40Good grief.
41:43Been a while.
41:44How are you?
41:47Good.
41:48Thanks, Bucks.
41:49You?
41:51See the news.
41:54Derricor's disappeared
41:56in the Far East.
41:57A plane he was flying
41:58carrying a cargo
41:59load of gold.
42:01I think the cause
42:02of the crash
42:03was fuel starvation.
42:07No.
42:08No, I haven't seen it.
42:10What does that mean?
42:15Any survivors?
42:17No.
42:18And they can't find
42:20Derricor's body.
42:24Wasn't Vera close
42:26to that man
42:26from the SAS?
42:28The sort of thing
42:29they're good at.
42:31Giving people
42:31a helping hand
42:32into the grave.
42:35I, uh,
42:36I wouldn't know.
42:38Vera and I
42:39don't speak.
42:41I think she works
42:43for the UN now.
42:45Well,
42:46if you hear anything.
42:51All that
42:52Derricor business
42:53was
42:55very unfortunate
42:57for everyone.
43:04it's best
43:04that he's gone.
43:07Dead men
43:07don't talk.
43:13Vera Atkins
43:15retires
43:16to the south
43:17coast of Britain
43:18moving to
43:19Winchelsea.
43:20She has a steady
43:22but discreet
43:23stream of visitors
43:24including
43:26Tanya Sabo
43:27the daughter
43:28of agent
43:28Violette Sabo.
43:42Now you see
43:43the George Cross
43:44for Mother.
43:50Odette Samson
43:51was the first
43:52ever woman
43:52to receive that.
43:58The French
43:59also gave
43:59the Grandmother
44:00the Quadriguer.
44:03That was good
44:04of them.
44:09And Noor
44:10received both
44:11medals too.
44:15There's a memorial
44:16now at Dachau.
44:24And now you
44:26received your CBE
44:27finally.
44:29They took their
44:30time didn't they?
44:33Are you looking
44:34forward to the
44:34ceremony?
44:39We'll see
44:40won't we?
44:47I'll leave this
44:48here.
44:56I always drove
44:57them down to the
44:58aerodromes.
45:00It always
45:01seemed to be
45:02a summer's day.
45:04I saw them
45:05off.
45:08When the war
45:09ended and when
45:10they didn't come
45:11back I went
45:11looking for them
45:12all.
45:15missing
45:16presumed dead
45:21is such
45:22a terrible
45:23epitaph
45:23for anyone.
45:28Can't believe
45:29my time has
45:30finally come.
45:32Been such a whirlwind.
45:36and yet the
45:37adventure's just
45:37about to start.
45:40Remember what
45:41they've taught
45:42you, Noor.
45:44Yes, Miss
45:45Atkins.
45:50There.
45:51You're clean.
45:56You're so smart,
45:57Miss Atkins.
45:59You always
45:59wear the nicest
46:00things.
46:04Here.
46:06It's yours.
46:10May it bring you
46:11luck.
46:18Thank you,
46:19Miss Atkins.
46:20Are you ready?
46:25Yes, Miss Atkins.
46:28Very good.
46:54All right.
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