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00:03In the Second World War, British spy agency, the SOE, send more and more female agents behind enemy lines.
00:20With D-Day on the horizon, these women, handpicked by spymaster Vera Atkins,
00:27make daring attacks against Hitler's troops from deep inside Nazi-occupied France.
00:41But, as the Allies push towards Paris,
00:46the Gestapo brutally cracks down.
00:50Unfortunately, some of your agents had to be shot.
00:57What the hell are they playing at?
00:59One by one, Vera's women disappear.
01:03We can't be captured.
01:08Hide what you can, then hide yourself.
01:13We go now. Move!
01:15Halt!
01:29You go. I'll send them off as long as I can. Go! Go!
01:39But, with France liberated, and the Nazis defeated, many are still missing.
01:47Vera's mission was to send these women to war.
01:52Now, she'll do whatever it takes to find them and bring them home.
02:12The Allied invasion of Europe, to recapture France from the Nazis, has begun.
02:17The Allied invasion of Europe, to recapture France from the Nazis, has begun.
02:36Across France, the French resistance, supplied and coordinated by SOE, launch into action.
02:49in london f-section monitor the sabotage activity
02:56there's palpable excitement buckmaster and vera are watching as these messages come in
03:03there's already been acts of sabotage trying to disrupt the train lines trying to disrupt
03:08communication lines blow up bridges blowing up telephone exchanges to try and disrupt the
03:14Germans as much as possible it's chaotic but it's exhilarating in the flurry of messages coming
03:24in from their agents they receive one that is unusual sir message from Paul sign Leopold Leopold
03:37Leopold is inactive he was arrested in 43
03:42thank you for the large delivery of weapons and ammunition incredibly grateful for the
03:47information on your plans and objectives
03:52signed the gestapo
04:00it's not the only message f-section received that day from the nazis feared secret police
04:11another thank you for the supply drop equipment gratefully received unfortunately some of your
04:18agents had to be shot others were more open to do what we asked the gestapo what the hell are
04:28they
04:28playing at send a reply sorry to see your nerves are shot and your resilience isn't as strong as ours
04:54still SOE circuits and french resistance fighters continue their clandestine attacks against the nazis
05:06and the allied soldiers fight their way ashore
05:10but their position is precarious they 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 wireless messages of german targets being hit continue to stream in
05:42sabotage by those SOE networks was absolutely crucial during d-day and the germans were so angry at the
05:52this success that an order went out to hunt down vera's agents
06:00just days after d-day f-section received news on one of their agents recently parachuted into france
06:10fuck
06:13violette sabo has been captured
06:17violette is already a widow she's got a two-year-old daughter
06:21and the thought that violette might not come back is just unthinkable
06:28where
06:31the report is brief
06:36does it say where she's being held
06:41just says captured
06:43nothing else
06:58in the limousine region of france resistance fighters pull off an audacious mission
07:05they have kidnapped the commander of the second ss panzer division
07:10that's right
07:12and of course the nazis are furious about this they want their commander back
07:17and so they start to ramp up their control of the area they put in roadblocks
07:23trying to capture resistance members and they start to punish the resistance for what they've done
07:30the nazis are out for revenge and choose the village of uradour sur glen to send a bloody message to
07:38the french people
07:44in london f-section monitor sabotage attacks across france
07:50they've hit another fuel depot
07:53good
07:54their tanks are thirsty beasts
07:56they'll be running on fumes by the time they reach normandy
07:59if they may get that far
08:03but soon
08:04news of the massacre reaches buckmaster
08:07sir a report from france
08:10you need to read it now
08:11thank you
08:19buck
08:25what is it
08:29the ss
08:33the resistance captured their commander
08:41they massacred a village
08:44what?
08:48over 600 dead
08:50women
08:52children
09:01i thought the germans had honor
09:03that they acted like gentlemen
09:08look
09:12i never thought they'd do something like this
09:22the news of the massacre at orador sur glen
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
09:39buck where did this happen
09:50limousine
09:53limousine
09:55limousine
10:09limousine
10:13but no further information on violette has come through
10:27in northern france the allies consolidate their foothold in normandy
10:33and prepare to push out deeper into the country
10:37and prepare to push out deeper into the country
11:02the scholar circuit are requesting a supply drop to the juror region
11:10and she's been operating in france for about three months in the juror region which is to the east of
11:15france
11:16authorize the drop
11:20on the 25th of June 1944 32 flying fortresses were flown over by the RAF
11:29and they released 440 parachutes and attached to those parachutes were
11:35canisters full of weapons and explosives and arms and equipment needed by the
11:43resistance
11:44it's the largest daylight parachute drop of the war
11:48hidden at the drop zone
11:49is Yvonne with a team of resistance fighters
11:55it took 48 hours for those canisters to be emptied and for the equipment to be stored
12:01meaning that every minute and every hour that went by they were more and more at risk of being caught
12:07but Yvonne was so excited when this happened and she said as every one of those parachutes opened hope was
12:14attached to them
12:21after a frantic two days on the ground
12:25Yvonne and her team are exhausted
12:28with the last container collected they leave the drop zone and head back to their headquarters
12:46at F section messages from the circuits flood in
12:51targets are being hit the resistance are taking the fight to the Germans across the country
13:00but that's tinged with uncertainty
13:04what about the agents how many have survived how many have the Germans managed to capture
13:13then F section finally receives the report they've been waiting for
13:21Eva, what is it?
13:26Eva, what is it?
13:37the light is behind there
13:37and they're driving to meet other SOE leaders
13:40But what they don't know is
13:42the resistance have caught one of the SS commanders of the second Panzer division
13:47and the Germans are frantic to get him back
13:50They start mounting road blox
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 what it was it's a new checkpoint they can't search us i know they can't search us if
14:15they search the car they'll find our weapons we have british weapons if they search the car they'll
14:20know we're resistance we can't be captured stop the car
14:40we make for the woods try to lose them we go now move
15:10as violette's escaping she twists her ankle it was already damaged from the parachute drop
15:16she'd done during training as an soe agent
15:30are you hit no it's my ankle can you walk on it no you go i'll send them off as
15:37long as i can
15:38go go she's basically immobile at this point so she provides cover fire for the resistance men so
15:49that they can get away
15:54so
16:07I don't know.
16:27I don't know.
17:15I don't know.
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 and not be under German occupation just must have
17:37been phenomenal.
17:39With the Allies pushing deeper into France, what's left of SOE's circuits begin to lose their importance.
18:22Vera is tasked with making sense of them all.
18:26Goodbye, Miss Atkins.
18:28Sorry, Flight Officer Atkins.
18:31Yes, goodbye.
18:37But Vera, no longer a civilian and now commissioned in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, stays in London.
18:50Paris is back in Allied hands, but the victory came at a huge cost to SOE's agents.
18:59It was understood that the casualty numbers would be quite high, particularly surrounding the D-Day landings.
19:09Many more female agents had been sent out in 1944 than before, and this was Vera's responsibility.
19:17She's the one who's sent them to France in the first place.
19:21With Paris liberated, the human toll of this decision comes into focus.
19:29Of the more than 400 SOE agents dispatched to France, 118 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, a man turns up and
20:05he's angry.
20:06He's furious.
20:09Marcel Rousset, an F-Section agent with the codename Leopold, demands 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, and in fact it was even his radio that was used by the
20:32Gestapo
20:33to send the taunting signals to SOE headquarters on D-Day.
20:40Hello, I'm Nancy. How can I help?
20:42It's why I need a chance. I am.
20:43He is angry. He's absolutely furious at the mistakes that SOE has made, that so many agents have been captured.
20:53Please take a seat here, sir.
20:56An SOE officer sits down with Rousset for 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, Rousset says how stupid everyone at F-Section had been, particularly Buckmaster and Vera,
21:18and how they had risked agents' lives.
21:22I would love to meet him based on...
21:24S-D, Sicherheitsdienst, force him to relay radio messages back to London.
21:30And he quite deliberately, totally follows SOE protocol,
21:34which is that he doesn't include special code words as a warning to SOE,
21:40but they just ignored this and continue to accept the messages that came from his radio as genuine.
21:49His interrogation report is explosive and provides Vera with important leads to the whereabouts of her missing agents.
22:06At F-Section, Vera receives Rousset's interrogation report.
22:15After his arrest, he's taken to the SD headquarters in Paris at 84 Avenue Foch.
22:27The SD is the SS intelligence agency and worked hand-in-hand with the Gestapo.
22:35Here, Rousset is confronted with Prosper's wireless operator, Gilbert Norman, codenamed Butcher.
22:45It was Norman who told the Germans that Rousset was SOE, wireless operator, Leopold.
22:54And he also tells Rousset that the Gestapo know everything about SOE and their activities.
23:06So, Settel, who was the organiser of that circuit, and Norman,
23:11had given up everything about the Prosper's circuit in Paris
23:16in order to try and save his life and 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?
23:30Can you imagine how awful it was for Vera just finding out that they could have revealed so much
23:37that every time Vera sent a woman over, she was just basically feeding them straight into the German prison.
23:46In the Gestapo's cells, Rousset is held in solitary confinement.
23:53But, by tapping on the wall in Morse code,
23:56he manages to communicate with an SOE agent in the cell next to his.
24:02Rousset learns that a wireless operator with 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 after the liberation of Paris.
24:22Noor had been in the Gestapo's prison in Paris.
24:23Noor assumed she'd been captured,
24:25but no further intel had been discovered.
24:31Rousset's report suggests that Noor had been in the Gestapo's prison in Paris.
24:39His report continues.
24:43From Paris, the women prisoners were then transferred to Germany.
24:49This is news to Vera.
24:52She wasn't aware that any female prisoners have been transferred to Germany.
24:57Where were they? Where have they gone?
25:01Could those women have been her agents?
25:03Could one of them have been Noor?
25:07Frustratingly, Rousset's intel now dries up.
25:12He remains in the Gestapo's prison,
25:14working as a cleaner until 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 then a report comes in from a member of yvonne basedon's soe circuit
26:11after yvonne and her colleagues had hidden all the equipment that had come in on this daylight
26:15parachute drop they headed back to their headquarters but soon after they arrive
26:25everything changes the germans they're coming what we spotted a patrol of german soldiers
26:34they're heading for us do we have time to move no hide what you can then hide yourself
26:53the germans who arrived they just heard a tip off that this building might be of some
26:58interest and they're just going to do a cursory search
27:24there is literally nobody
27:27in sight they can't find anybody so they leave but they just leave behind one person
27:33he's effectively watching it just in case something happens or somebody arrives
27:37one can only imagine what would be going through the minds of yvonne and her team as they are hiding
27:43holding their breath not moving because they have to be totally quiet and then the plumbing makes a noise
27:58hello is there anybody in there
28:08i have something keep searching
28:46in london vera scours allied intelligence reports searching for any clues to her agent's whereabouts
28:57who survived where were they being held and where were they now
29:03she has cause for optimism some agents are surfacing after the liberation of paris
29:13one 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
29:28but for those still missing few details are known
29:34f-section operations are all but wound down
29:39vera remains
29:43she is worried about her agents about the women she sent into the field
29:49she has to find out where they are
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
32:19on what is known about them
32:25before noor departed for france vera had promised to send her mother periodic good news letters
32:33which she had
32:36but now the tone of these letters has to change from all the reports of noor's training everybody was
32:45saying that she wasn't ready but paris needed a wireless operator and immediately she'd put this
32:52young woman into the jaws of the gestapo
33:01dear mrs inayat khan i am extremely sorry to have to inform you that we have recently lost touch with
33:08your daughter due to the confused state of affairs in france we were not unduly worried
33:13but i am afraid now your daughter must be considered as missing
33:19although there is every reason to believe that she will eventually be notified to us as a prisoner
33:24of war just the idea of writing letters to the family that's heartbreaking but vera's got other
33:31issues that she has to worry about the british government was never very happy about sending
33:36women combatants overseas because they were not protected by the geneva convention and that meant
33:41the nazis could do whatever they liked with them she also has fear about her own future because
33:48once it is revealed in the public that something has happened to these women
33:52she's also fearful about the consequences for her as the person who sent them out
34:02i would impress upon you in the interests of your daughter's safety that you make no inquiries with
34:09regard to her except through me
34:23by january 1945 the allies are making steady gains
34:30and nazi germany is on its knees
34:42but many agents are still missing despite combing through any and all intelligence documents vera's
34:52investigation 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
35:21buckmaster's right-hand man she's right in the center of all of the major decisions but once f section is
35:28over and buckmaster is gone it becomes incredibly difficult to convince anybody that her plight
35:34within soe is worth pursuing particularly john center the head of soe's security division and a commander
35:43in the royal navy
35:46atkins yes sir a memo of yours just came across my desk yes sir
35:56a memo suggesting that we give out the names of our agents
36:05publish their names for the red cross the american army the soviet army
36:15yes sir so that once those forces begin liberating pow camps they will have a register
36:22of all of our missing agents
36:27atkins you do understand what we do here the work we did during the war
36:34yes sir but then you'll also understand the meaning of secret as in the term secret agent
36:43sir if i may flight officer atkins
36:47let me remind you you are addressing a commander in the royal navy
36:58the war is not yet over
37:02how long do you think it would be before the germans also got to see those names
37:09why should we advertise who our agents are on a register for our enemies to see
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 find 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
38:30next to the name of one of the prisoners is n and n this means nacht und nebel or night
38:38and fog
38:40the nacht und nebel order was decreed by hitler that people who have been involved in espionage
38:47or resistance are to him so despicable that they have to be punished in an extraordinary way
38:55not only will they be captured interrogated tortured and then killed but they're supposed to disappear
39:02without a trace they will disappear as into night and fog time is running out to find her missing women
39:11alive
39:20by april 1945 germany is in total collapse
39:27the foreign office now they want to release the soe agents names vera is allowed to issue the names of
39:36her agents so that people liberating these prisoner of war camps can find them
39:42if they are found there is now a register for their return to britain if they survived
40:06on the 30th of april 1945 with berlin all but captured by the red army
40:15hitler commits suicide
40:23by the 8th of may the allies accept nazi germany's unconditional surrender the war in europe is over
40:48the
40:49of the celebrations in london vera gets news that gives her hope her agents survived
40:57on the 20th of may 1945 evonne basden captured and missing turns up at euston station in london
41:07in london vera gets news that comes out how did you get here
41:30where are we going
42:01i'm taking you home
42:06of the
42:18Please, come here.
42:37You look, um, weak.
42:40Let me make you something to eat.
43:05What happened after you were captured?
43:09Did you see anyone else?
43:11Other agents?
43:14Uh, Yvonne, I need you to think.
43:27Um, after I was caught, uh, they sent me, uh, east to a, uh, to a prison, to a place
43:39called
43:39Saarbrocken, um, that there I started seeing some, some familiar faces, agents I'd been
43:52in training with.
43:53Uh, I saw, uh, they've got the hold of Baker Street.
44:02I didn't talk to them, I, I, I kept my distance.
44:09You see, uh, I told the Germans after they caught me that I was just an ordinary French
44:14girl.
44:16Caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, that was my cover.
44:20So I, I had to keep my distance, I, I couldn't let the Nazis know that I was an agent.
44:32Uh, uh, uh, then, then, then they moved us, um, all to a camp, uh, north of Berlin.
44:49Who went with you?
44:54I remember Violette.
44:57A, a, a couple of others from, from F section.
45:03Violette Szabo?
45:06Yes.
45:08Um, Violette and, and the others, we were all, uh, we were all sent to, um, um, Ravensbrück.
45:16Concentration camp.
45:18It, it was a camp just for women.
45:24Ravensbrück.
45:27A women's only concentration camp.
45:34Yes.
45:38At this time, very little is widely known about concentration camps.
45:43Very few people have heard about them.
45:45The idea of there being one just for women, I mean, it, it's completely horrifying.
45:52One day, Violette and the others just, um, just disappeared.
46:06I never saw them again.
46:13And then, um, the Russians came and liberated us.
46:17The Red Cross, uh, took me to Malmo in Sweden in a bus.
46:21The RAF flew me to Scotland.
46:25I found a train to Houston.
46:31While horrific that Vera finds out her agents went to Ravensbrück, the female concentration camp,
46:37she can place them somewhere and she knows where they were.
46:57I'll leave you with.
46:59You have a lot to catch up on.
47:09Vera was incredibly happy to find Yvonne.
47:12It might be possible she's able to trace all of her missing agents.
47:19But had they survived, and where were they all now?
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