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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.
12:57Kiefer.
12:59Kiefer.
13:00Kiefer.
13:10Kiefer.
13:14Kiefer.
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16:16REFUSED TO
16:17REFUSED TO
16:17COOPERATE
16:20UNLIKE THE OTHERS
16:25SHE TRIED TO
16:26SHE TRIED TO
16:26ESCAPE WITH A GROUP OF MALE AGENTS
16:31IT WOULD HAVE RUINED US
16:32IF SHE MADE IT BACK TO SOE
16:35RUINED ME
16:38SO I
16:40SENT HER AWAY
16:43SHE ENDED UP IN
16:46FORTSAM I THINK
16:50SHE WAS A BRAVE ONE
17:00HER NAME
17:01WAS NUR
17:02INAYAT KHAN
17:05SHE IS MOST LIKELY
17:07DEAD
17:09SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD
17:11AT DAKAL
17:18KEEFER
17:19IF ONE OF US
17:20IS GOING TO CRY
17:21IT IS GOING TO BE ME
17:22YOU WILL PLEASE STOP
17:24THIS COMEDY
17:30WHO BETRAYED THEM KEEFER?
17:34WHO BETRAYED NOR?
17:39YOU'RE ASKING ME
17:42IF THERE WAS A TRAITOR
17:44IN YOUR RINGS
17:48WHY ARE YOU ASKING ME?
17:52YOU KNOW YOURSELF
17:54THERE WAS ONE
17:57YOU RECOLLED HIM TO LONDON
18:01GILBERT
18:03AND WHO IS GILBERT?
18:11I THINK YOU'RE NOW
18:15OF COURSE YOU'RE NOW
18:19ONLY DELL HE CALL
18:25DID YOU PAY HIM?
18:28YES
18:31EVERYONE HAS THEIR PRICE
18:33DID THEY?
18:40HERE
18:41AT LAST
18:42IS VERA'S
18:44DEFINITIVE PROOF
18:45THAT
18:45ONRIE DEREKOR
18:46IS THE DOUBLE AGENT
18:48DON'T WORRY DEREKOR
18:50WE'LL CLEAR THIS
18:51WHOLE SORRY BUSINESS UP
18:52THANKS
18:53DESPITE
18:55BUCKMASTER
18:55AND BODDINGTON'S
18:56INVESTIGATION
18:57CLEARING HIM
19:04THERE IS NO DOUBT IN
19:05VERA'S MIND THAT WITH ALL
19:07THE RESISTANCE
19:08EVIDENCE COMING IN
19:08ALL OF THE INFORMATION
19:10THAT KEEPER KNOWS
19:11ABOUT DEREKOR
19:12OBVIOUSLY NOW
19:13FOR VERA
19:15SHE KNOWS DEREKOR
19:17IS THE MULL
19:18HE IS A DOUBLE AGENT
19:19HE'S THE REASON
19:21THAT ALL OF HER AGENTS
19:22OR A LOT OF THEM
19:23ENDED UP IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS
19:25HE'S THE REASON
19:26THAT THEY WERE MURDERED
19:28AND THE ANGER
19:29THAT MUST HAVE PULSED
19:30THROUGH HER AT THAT POINT
19:31THIS ISN'T A SINKING
19:32FEELING ANYMORE
19:33THIS IS SOMETHING
19:34THAT SHE NEEDS JUSTICE FOR
19:38NOW
19:39VERA HAS A STAR WITNESS
19:41WHO CAN TESTIFY AGAINST
19:42AND HOPEFULLY CONVICT
19:44ONRIE DEREKOR
20:02HENRY DEREKOR
20:03IS BROUGHT TO TRIAL
20:05IN PARIS
20:10HERE IS VERA'S CHANCE FOR JUSTICE
20:15VERA HAD SPENT THE LAST FEW YEARS
20:17BUILDING UP HER CASE
20:18AGAINST HENRY DEREKOR
20:20I MEAN SHE HAD EVERYTHING
20:21NOW SHE WAS A CIVILIAN
20:23OBVIOUSLY
20:24SHE WASN'T LEADING THE PROSECUTION
20:25BUT SHE WASN'T LEADING
20:25THE PROSECUTION
20:25SO SHE COULDN'T DETERMINE
20:26WHAT EVIDENCE
20:27THEY WERE GOING TO USE
20:28IN COURT AGAINST HIM
20:29BUT SHE HAD SO MUCH
20:30SHE HAD LIKE
20:32AFFIDAVITS
20:32FROM ACTUAL NAZI WAR CRIMINALS
20:34WHO NAMED HIM
20:35SHE HAD ALL OF THE EVIDENCE
20:37THAT SHE GATHERED
20:38FROM HER OWN AGENTS
20:39SHE HAD ALL THE EVIDENCE
20:41FROM THE FRENCH RESISTANCE
20:42HENRY DEREKOR
20:44WAS AT THE CENTER
20:45OF THIS WEB OF LIES
20:47AND SHE COULD PROVE IT
20:48IT WAS ALL RIGHT THERE
20:50SHE MUST HAVE FELT SO CONFIDENT
20:52WHEN THEY ENTERED THE COURTROOM
20:53BUT IT IS SOON CLEAR
20:56IT MAY NOT BE AS EASY
20:58AS VERA HOPES
21:02IT'S NOW BEEN OVER A YEAR
21:04SINCE VERA INTERROGATED
21:05HANS KIEFER
21:07SHE IS TOLD
21:09THAT IN JUNE 1947
21:11KIEFER WAS CONVICTED
21:13OF THE MURDER OF FIVE SAS MEN
21:16AND EXECUTED
21:17BEFORE HE CAN GIVE EVIDENCE
21:20AT THE DEREKOR TRIAL
21:24HANS KIEFER
21:25WOULD HAVE KNOWN MORE
21:26THAN ANYBODY ELSE
21:27ABOUT EVERY SINGLE AGENT
21:28WHO WAS ARRESTED
21:29WHEN AND HOW
21:31AND THE RADIO GAME
21:32AND ALSO WHAT INFORMERS
21:33HE WAS USING
21:34SO ONE MIGHT THINK
21:36THAT HIS EVIDENCE
21:37WOULD HAVE BEEN
21:38OR A STATEMENT AT LEAST
21:39WOULD HAVE BEEN CRUCIAL
21:40TO THE EVENTUAL TRIAL
21:42OF HONRI DEREKOR
21:43AS A TRAITOR
21:47I MEAN THERE'S A POTENTIAL
21:49CONSPIRACY THEORY
21:50AROUND THE FACT
21:51THAT HE WAS DELIBERATELY
21:52EXECUTED
21:53SO THAT HE COULDN'T REVEAL
21:55THE FULL EXTENT
21:56OF THE SOE FAILINGS
21:58AND DISASTROUS
21:59INFILTRATIONS
22:02NEXT
22:02VERA DISCOVERS
22:04THE STATEMENT
22:05WHICH SHE EXTRACTED
22:06FROM KIEFER
22:06IS NOT GOING TO BE
22:08PUT BEFORE THE COURT
22:10FINALLY
22:11NO FORMER SOE OFFICERS
22:14WILL APPEAR IN COURT
22:15TO GIVE EVIDENCE
22:20BUT
22:21ON THE FINAL DAY
22:22ONE FORMER OFFICER
22:24DOES MAKE THE TRIP
22:25TO PARIS
22:28NONE OTHER
22:30THAN NICHOLAS BODDINGTON
22:37COULD BODDINGTON
22:39BE THE MAN
22:39TO HELP GET DEREKOR
22:41CONVICTED?
22:49BODDINGTON
22:51GIVES EVIDENCE
22:52BUT INSTEAD OF
22:53GIVING EVIDENCE
22:54AGAINST DEREKOR
22:55BODDINGTON TESTIFIES
22:56THAT DEREKOR'S CONTACT
22:58WITH THE NAZIS
22:59WAS FULLY AUTHORIZED
23:01FOR COUNTER
23:02ESPIONAGE PURPOSES
23:09Henri DEREKOR
23:10IS FOUND NOT
23:12TO BE A TRAITOR
23:13INSTEAD
23:14PARTIALLY THANKS
23:16TO BODDINGTON'S
23:16TESTIMONY
23:17HE IS
23:18ACQUITTED
23:19DEREKOR
23:20IS A FREE MAN
23:21PERSON
23:23VERA
23:24HAS TO FACE
23:25THE POSSIBILITY
23:26THAT HER WOMEN AGENTS
23:28WERE COMPROMISED
23:29SO THAT DEREKOR
23:30COULD SUPPLY
23:31INTELLIGENCE
23:32TO LONDON
23:32ABOUT THE NAZIS
23:34PUT YOURSELF IN
23:36VERA'S BOOTS
23:36SHE'S BEEN TRYING
23:37TO PROSECUTE
23:38HENRY DEREKOR
23:39FOR YEARS
23:39AND HERE
23:40IT'S ALMOST
23:41A FARCICAL TRIAL
23:42AND NOT ONLY
23:43DOES THE PROSECUTION
23:44NOT REALLY TRY
23:45AND PIN HIM DOWN
23:46AND BRINGS VIRTUALLY
23:47NO WITNESSES
23:48BUT THE DEFENSE
23:50THEY BRING
23:51BODDINGTON
23:51LIKE THIS IS A MAN
23:53THAT VERA'S WORKED
23:54WITH
23:54AND HE KNOWS
23:56WHAT SHE'S BEEN DOING
23:56HE KNOWS
23:57THAT SHE'S DESPERATELY
23:58BEEN TRYING
23:59TO BRING JUSTICE
24:00TO ALL THE WOMEN
24:01WHO SOME OF THEM
24:02WERE TORTURED TO DEATH
24:03AND SHE FEELS
24:05RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT
24:06BECAUSE SHE'S THE PERSON
24:07WHO SENT THEM OUT THERE
24:08VERA
24:09HOW COULD YOU NICK
24:10VERA
24:11HOW COULD YOU SUPPORT
24:13THAT TRAITOR
24:14TESTIFY
24:15FOR HIM
24:16AFTER EVERYTHING
24:17HE DID
24:17TO MY AGENTS
24:18OUR AGENTS
24:19VERA
24:20YOU'RE A LIAR
24:22EVERYTHING I SAID
24:23WAS TRUE
24:24YOU'RE A LIAR
24:26VERA
24:26DEREKOR'S CONTACT
24:27WITH THE SD
24:28WAS AUTHORIZED
24:30I SENT MY GIRLS
24:31TO WAR
24:32WITH NO PROTECTION
24:33UNDER THE GENEVA CONVENTION
24:35IF THEY WERE MADE
24:36AS SPIES
24:37THEY FACED
24:38CERTAIN DEATH
24:39YOU SENT THEM
24:41TO THEIR DEATHS
24:43YOU SENT A WIDOW
24:44WITH A YOUNG DAUGHTER
24:44TO FRANCE
24:46THAT CHILD
24:47IS NOW AN ORPHAN
24:49YOU PULLED NOR
24:50OUT OF TRAINING EARLY
24:51BECAUSE YOU NEEDED
24:51A WIRELESS OPERATOR
24:54YOU VOLUNTEERED
24:55FOR THIS JOB
24:55BEGGED BUCKMASTER
24:57TO PLAY WITH THE BIG BOYS
24:59DON'T FORGET THAT
25:01I DON'T KNOW YOU
25:03NICK
25:04YOU NEVER DID
25:07IT APPEARS
25:09IT APPEARS
25:09THAT THE MEN
25:10AT THE TOP OF
25:11THE BRITISH ESTABLISHMENT
25:12WANT THE TRUE STORY
25:13OF THE WOMEN SPIES
25:15TO BE LOST
25:16PERMANENTLY
25:20BUT OTHERS
25:21ARE NOW INTERESTED
25:22IN WHAT HAPPENED
25:24TO VERA'S SPIES
25:26IN THE EARLY 1950S
25:28WRITER
25:29JEAN OVERTON FULLER
25:31BEGINS RESEARCHING
25:32A SERIES OF BOOKS
25:34ABOUT THE SOE
25:36JEAN WANTS TO FIND OUT
25:38WHAT HAPPENED
25:39TO HER FRIEND
25:40NOR INAYAT KHAN
25:41WHO DISAPPEARED
25:43DURING THE WAR
25:43AFTER TELLING JEAN
25:45SHE WAS GOING AWAY
25:49DESPITE BEING WARNED OFF
25:50BY ESTABLISHMENT FIGURES
25:52FULLER INTERVIEWS
25:53FORMER MEMBERS
25:54OF THE SOE
25:56AND ONE MAN
25:57IN PARTICULAR
26:04Codename
26:05Gilbert
26:08Henri Derricourt
26:13Her work results
26:14in three books
26:16about the SOE
26:17with the last called
26:18Double Webs
26:19published in 1958
26:23the book makes the controversial claim
26:26that NOR
26:27and other agents
26:28are sent by the SOE
26:30into the hands
26:32of Henri Derricourt
26:33with the full knowledge
26:35that Derricourt
26:36is a double agent
26:38working with the Nazis
26:44the book makes headlines
26:46Delivery for Mrs Ward
26:48Several MPs receive letters
26:50from the families
26:52of 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
27:17The Home Office
27:19sends Vera
27:32Overton Fuller writes and I quote
27:35I have read the book
27:36Mrs Ward
27:43It's a shame really
27:45that accuracy
27:46appears to be
27:47secondary concern
27:50I find these things
27:51of such importance
27:59You're disputing
28:00that Henri Derricourt
28:02was a double agent?
28:03Perhaps you could ask him yourself
28:06I'm sure Miss Overton Fuller
28:08could direct you to him
28:13Miss Atkins
28:16What concerns me
28:18is that the SOE
28:19that your superiors
28:21that 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?
28:33I served my constituents
28:36I served my constituents
28:36Hmm
28:44Atkins
28:46your mother's name
28:48I believe
28:50your father's name
28:52Rose
28:55Rosenberg if I'm not mistaken
28:59and you're from Romania
29:01and you're from Romania
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
29:14Good day Miss Atkins
29:18see yourself out please
29:20see yourself out please
29:24After the meeting
29:25Irene Ward
29:26digs into Vera's personal 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 the story
29:44of the lost women's spies
29:46The security establishment
29:48goes into damage control
29:52An academic
29:53called MRD Foote
29:55at the University of Oxford
29:57is engaged to produce
29:59an official history
30:00of the SOE
30:03MRD Foote
30:05is ex-SAS
30:06he also was captured
30:08in the war
30:09and he was 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
30:14but he's also a historian
30:15so he's got that authority
30:17as well
30:18he understands how to
30:19write about history
30:20and he understands
30:21that there are still
30:22some secrets
30:23that must stay secret
30:27His exhaustive work
30:28concludes that
30:29to the question
30:31of why people
30:32with so little training
30:33were sent
30:34to do such important work
30:36the only reply
30:37is the work
30:39had to be done
30:40and there was nobody else
30:42to send
30:51Professor Foote
30:53Before the book is published
30:55Vera speaks to Foote
30:56and persuades him
30:58to omit
30:59her Romanian background
31:00from his history
31:01of SOE
31:05So why does Vera hide
31:08who she really is?
31:10Because Vera
31:11is forced to cover up
31:13not just her public story
31:14and the lost women's spies
31:16but also the private story
31:18of her family's life
31:32Miss Atkins
31:33I would like three copies of this
31:35please
31:35one for the war
31:36It was a closely guarded secret
31:38at SOE
31:39that Vera was born
31:40in Romania
31:41rather than the UK
31:45but that wasn't
31:47Vera's only secret
31:58Vera was not born Vera Atkins
32:03but Vera Rosenberg
32:07Vera is one of three children
32:09of Max and Hilda Rosenberg
32:12who are both German Jews
32:15Just before the First World War
32:17Max purchases an estate
32:19and wood mill
32:20in Bukovina
32:22a region
32:23that will become part
32:24of Romania
32:28But after Vera's father dies
32:31in 1932
32:32and with anti-semitism in Europe
32:34on the rise
32:35Vera and her two brothers
32:37move to the United Kingdom
32:41where they take
32:42their English mother's
32:43surname
32:44of Atkins
32:48Vera leaves behind
32:49in Romania
32:50an extended family
32:53As the Nazis
32:54take hold of Europe
32:55the family who stay
32:57are in mortal danger
33:01The terror
33:02that people live with
33:03cannot be underestimated
33:05even if they weren't
33:06actually at direct risk
33:08of being moved
33:09to concentration camps
33:10This isn't just
33:11my family
33:12this isn't just my aunt
33:13and my dad
33:14and my direct family
33:15this is everybody
33:16with Jewish family
33:17who were living
33:18in the UK
33:19and England at the time
33:20were terrified
33:21about what was going to happen
33:22to their relatives
33:23and I think everybody
33:24wanted to do whatever
33:25they could to help
33:30According to a family story
33:31Vera's family in the UK
33:33raise a large amount of money
33:35to help their European relatives
33:40My dad
33:40my uncle and Vera
33:42were very keen
33:43to provide any help
33:44they could
33:45so they obviously
33:46found money
33:46and they found resources
33:47but it was very clear
33:49that by this point
33:50to get money
33:51to get resources
33:51to get a logistical plan
33:53you probably needed
33:54to go
33:55you needed to leave England
33:56you needed to get on a boat
33:58and you needed to go
33:59and practically help
34:02Vera
34:02travels to Antwerp
34:04Belgium
34:04in 1940
34:06just as the Nazis
34:07are about to invade
34:17during the war
34:18people would often store
34:20their wealth
34:20in something that could be
34:22more easily hidden
34:23and transported
34:31diamonds
34:42for hundreds of years
34:43Antwerp
34:45has been the centre
34:46of the diamond trade
34:47in Europe
34:50Vera is believed
34:51to have converted
34:52the money
34:53from the UK
34:53into diamonds
34:55for the family
34:56in Romania
35:01but who are the relatives
35:03facing Nazi persecution
35:05that Vera wants to save
35:16Fritz Rosenberg
35:18is Vera's cousin
35:20Vera's relatives
35:22in the 1940s
35:23face disaster
35:30the region
35:31has been occupied
35:32by Hungary
35:33an ally
35:34of Nazi Germany
35:39under new
35:40anti-Jewish laws
35:42Fritz
35:43and his wife
35:43Karen
35:44lose their passports
35:46they may even be deported
35:48to concentration camps
35:53but without a passport
35:55they are unable
35:56to escape
35:56to another country
36:00this rise in anti-semitism
36:02in the law
36:03is reflected
36:03in the population
36:04they 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
36:12they could be put on a train
36:14and taken to God knows where
36:15I mean it must have been
36:16absolutely terrifying for them
36:19theseinizi
36:20Kárün Rosenberg
36:21contacts
36:22a German
36:23family friend
36:25someone
36:26who has good contacts
36:28with the Abwehr
36:29German military intelligence.
36:35Karen is able to obtain Aryan passports
36:39issued by the Nazi government for her and Fritz.
36:45The Rosenbergs pay the Abwehr a large sum,
36:49about £150,000 in today's money,
36:52to get the prized passports.
36:57Money that could be the diamonds that Vera sources in Antwerp.
37:02Karen and Fritz are able to leave Romania.
37:07They are free, but it's a freedom that comes at a personal cost.
37:20Fritz and Karen relocate to the safety of Istanbul,
37:26where Vera's brother, Ralph Rosenberg, lives.
37:32The reason they go to Istanbul
37:34is because of a condition set by the Abwehr.
37:42Vera's brother is not only working for an oil company in Istanbul,
37:46but also supplying MI6 with local intelligence.
37:56The Abwehr want Karen to give them valuable information
38:00about Ralph and MI6.
38:10Vera had almost certainly gone to Antwerp
38:14to raise the money for Fritz and Karen's passports,
38:18the very passports that allow the Abwehr
38:21to get close to an MI6 agent.
38:25Vera has paid the bribe.
38:27She's possibly met German intelligence officers face to face.
38:33Karen herself has had contact
38:36with a German intelligence officer
38:38who's asked her to work for the Germans.
38:41It's beginning to look really suspicious.
38:44Anyone looking at this situation
38:47is going to start throwing suspicion on Vera
38:50and on the Rosenbergs.
38:52Are they loyal?
38:53What's going on here?
38:55It's opening a Pandora's box.
38:59Had it been known by the SOE
39:01that Vera had handed over money
39:04to get Aryan passports from the Abwehr,
39:06it would have put Vera
39:08under serious suspicion of being a double agent.
39:14Instead, Vera keeps her family story
39:18a closely guarded secret.
39:21And when the British security services
39:23publish MRD Foote's History of the SOE,
39:28Vera has all mention of her Romanian family roots erased.
39:34But despite the security services best attempts
39:37to cover up the story of the lost women spies,
39:42it's a story that just won't go away.
39:49After creating controversy with her book Double Webs,
39:53Jean Overton Fuller starts researching a new book.
39:57This time about Henri Derricor's relationship
40:01not with the Nazis, but with MI6.
40:05The book is called The Checkered Spy
40:08and it claims Derricor wasn't just a double agent,
40:13but that he was spying on the SOE,
40:16on the orders of MI6.
40:20Derricor was MI6's mole at the heart of the SOE,
40:25monitoring everything they were doing,
40:28as MI6 believed that the SOE were incompetent.
40:35The suggestion is that members of the British security services
40:39knew that the women Vera trained,
40:42like Noor Inayat Khan,
40:48like Violet Sabo,
40:51like Odette Sansom,
40:53were being sent into the hands of a known double agent.
41:00But Henri Derricor never sees the day that the book is published.
41:31Sub-editor's desk.
41:33Sub-editor's desk.
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41:38Buckmaster.
41:40Good grief...
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41:58plane he was flying carrying a cargo load of gold. I think the cause of the crash was
42:04fuel starvation. No, no, I haven't seen it. What does that mean? Any survivors? No, and
42:19they can't find Deracore's body. Wasn't Vera close to that man from the SAS?
42:28What sort of thing they're good at? Giving people a helping hand into the grave?
42:35I wouldn't know. Vera and I don't speak. I think she works for the UN now.
42:45Well, if you hear anything.
42:50All that Deracore business was very unfortunate for everyone. It's best that he's gone. Dead
43:07men don't talk.
43:14Vera Atkins retires to the south coast of Britain, moving to Winchelsea. She has a steady but
43:23discreet stream of visitors, including Tanya Sabo, the daughter of agent Violette Sabo.
43:42Now you see the George Cross for mother. Odette Samson was the first ever woman to receive
43:53that. The French also gave mother the Croix de Guerre. That was good of them. And
44:10she did not receive both medals too. There's a memorial now at Dachau. And
44:25now you have received your CBE. Finally. They took their time, didn't they? Are you looking
44:34forward to the ceremony? We'll see, won't we? I'll leave this here.
44:56I always drove them down to the aerodromes. It always seemed to be a summer's day. I saw
45:05them off. When the war ended and when they didn't come back, I went looking for them all.
45:15missing, presumed dead. It's such a terrible epitaph for anyone.
45:28I can't believe my time has finally come. It's been such a whirlwind. And yet the adventure's
45:37just about to start. Remember what they've taught you, Noor.
45:44Yes, Miss Atkins. There. You're clean. You're so smart, Miss Atkins. You're
45:59always where the nicest things. Here. It's yours. May it bring you luck.
46:18Thank you, Miss Atkins. Are you ready? Yes, Miss Atkins. Very good.
46:56What is my person?
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