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00:00World War II is over.
00:14The Allies have occupied Germany.
00:19But British women agents remain lost across Europe.
00:25Fire!
00:30Spymaster Vera Atkins now has a permanent position with the British Air Force
00:35to find her lost women spies.
00:39And she enlists the help of a crack team of SAS Nazi hunters,
00:45led by Major Bill Barkworth.
00:50Barkworth reports about a hidden concentration camp in eastern France,
00:54designed to make secret agents disappear without a trace.
01:00And the possibility that some of Vera's lost women spies may have died there.
01:11As Vera gathers evidence for the trials of leading Nazis,
01:16the horrors she is uncovering are too much for the authorities back in London.
01:22Vera receives a clear order.
01:24I need you to keep this disgusting business out of the newspapers.
01:29The true stories of all her lost women spies must be kept covered up.
01:35At all costs.
01:37The 11th of March, 1946.
01:51Nearly nine months since the end of the war in Europe.
01:59Vera is based at the British War Crimes Office in Germany,
02:03where her promotion allows her to travel the country to hunt for her lost women spies.
02:14Two names stand out.
02:16Vera is sent by Major Barkworth an interrogation report of prison crematorium worker France Berg.
02:39Berg claims Noor was killed along with three other women spies at the Natsweiler camp in July 1944.
02:55But a warder at Karlsruhe prison, Fräulein Becker,
03:00says she remembers Noor being in Karlsruhe many months later.
03:05Yes.
03:05Vera already has an eyewitness testimony from Natsweiler saying that Noor is dead.
03:12And now she has another eyewitness testimony saying,
03:14No, that is not true.
03:18Noor could still be alive.
03:23The other name is Violette Sabo.
03:26Violette left her one-year-old child behind to take up arms.
03:33A child whose father had already given his life in the war effort.
03:39Nazis won't know what hit them.
03:41Very good.
03:44Violette Sabo's situation is particularly sad because she lost her husband,
03:50who never actually met their daughter, gave birth to a child.
03:54And she left her child back with her family in the UK and parachuted into France.
04:01So determined was she to keep fighting against the Nazis.
04:06Violette was last heard of at the women's concentration camp at Ravensbrück.
04:11A camp from where Vera's agents Odette Sansom and Yvonne Bazden have both returned.
04:21So is Violette also alive?
04:27Vera never gives up hope.
04:29There's always this little sliver of hope that some of them would be alive.
04:33They may be in a terrible condition, but they are alive.
04:36Or they would have escaped and they will show up.
04:38So she keeps this hope in her when she goes, but she is prepared for the worst.
04:46And as she is uncovering these stories, Vera is getting hardened.
04:51The torture she is hearing about, it is hardening her.
04:57We have arrested an SSL lieutenant from a camp north of Berlin.
05:03Which camp?
05:05Ravensbrück.
05:08Ravensbrück is Violette Sabo's camp.
05:20Is this the stroke of luck that Vera badly needs?
05:24SSL lieutenant Johann Schwarzhuber was second in command at Ravensbrück.
05:45Schwarzhuber is a very important person for Vera to be able to interview because he holds absolutely crucial information about three of the women that she is looking for, that she has since found out, were taken to Ravensbrück concentration camp.
06:05So.
06:06Yes.
06:06I doubt that we can take a part of her.
06:11Superbuck.
06:15It certainly seems to have helped withiviress on the planet.
06:17Yes.
06:17Sorry.
06:18Bock
06:19Get out
06:20Get out
06:21Get out
06:22Get out
06:22Quick
06:23Get out
06:27And
06:27Get out
06:28I
06:29This one.
06:46She had the name Violet.
06:52And?
06:54What happened to her?
06:59All three were taken to the crematorium building of the camp.
07:06And one by one, they were shot.
07:15How do you know?
07:21I watched.
07:29How do you know?
07:36Vera now has testimony that along with Violet, Lillian Rolf and Denise Block were executed at the Ravensbrück concentration camp north of Berlin.
07:48Vera must have been absolutely shocked to hear this information.
07:53She would have clung on to any last thread of hope that the women had survived the camp.
07:58As she heard of these women who she'd been so affectionate for, who she had really traveled across Europe and in dreadful conditions, trying to find out what had happened to them.
08:08And finally, she has the evidence that these three women were murdered.
08:21Vera personally writes letters for the bereaved families, each one detailing her search for these spies missing, presumed dead.
08:31Vera would have felt shocked and upset, but to some extent, I think she might have also felt relief.
08:39She had closure on this story, and although it wasn't the end she would have wanted or hoped for, she was finally able to tell the families of these three women what had happened to them.
08:51And they were able to finally understand what their daughters, wives, children had gone through and what they had sacrificed for their country.
09:06Each letter has to be assessed by her superiors to make sure Vera doesn't give away any incriminating evidence.
09:14Vera is in a very difficult position because the fact that there were women agents is not yet common knowledge.
09:23They want to keep it out of the public eye because it's a very difficult thing to try and explain to families and acquaintances and loved ones that actually your daughter was sent into harm's way without protection, without the protection of the Geneva Convention or the Hague Convention, without the protection of the British government effectively.
09:42They were meant to be completely deniable if they were captured or caught or indeed killed.
09:52But there remain other spies who are unaccounted for, like Noor Inayat Khan, who, with two other agents, was last seen at the Natsweiler camp in the mountains of eastern France.
10:06In a few months, the Natsweiler war crimes trial will start and Vera has been instructed to gather as much evidence as she can, but she can't do it alone.
10:22In the spring of 1946, Vera travels to Garganau, a small town near Karlsruhe.
10:32It's here she visits Major Bill Barkworth, at a property his SAS unit have commandeered, called the Villa Daigler.
10:50Vera Atkins.
10:52Vera Atkins, good to finally meet you.
10:54Vera Atkins, good to finally meet you.
10:56And you, sir.
10:57Yes.
10:58I have two friends who are under the
11:18Nazi hunter unit. His name is Franz Berg. Berg's testimony is key to whether Vera can
11:28get a conviction against those who ran the camp and may have murdered her women agents.
11:33The next women to be killed by injection, rather than gassing, were two English and two French
11:52women. They were brought to the cells in the crematorium building one afternoon in July 1944.
12:22We, me and the other prisoners, had seen through the fan light without standing up.
12:38We heard low voices.
12:42We heard noises of every breathing and low groaning.
12:47Next two women, we heard the same noises and regular groans, but the fourth, she resisted
13:00in the corridor. I heard her say, why?
13:17It was not simpleальную a little bit than that, shearies drew sensitive.
13:24So, why aren't we sure that?
13:27During that elementary school, the clock is anywhere.
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13:40Vera has now a witness statement that she can use at the upcoming Natsweiler war crimes
14:09trial. A testimony identifying that some of Vera's agents, including Noor, were killed
14:17at the camp. But even with Berg's testimony, this is only one man's recollection. Vera needs
14:25more evidence. Vera continues her preparation for the Natsweiler war crimes trial. Thanks
14:37to Barkworth, she now has Berg's testimony and other witness statements. But Vera lacks
14:44a critical piece of evidence if she wants to convict those who ran Natsweiler.
14:52Vera needed hard evidence. If she wants to bring those perpetrators to justice, she needs
14:59to gather enough of the hard evidence that will stand up in a court of law to actually
15:06bring them to justice. Vera needs documentary evidence, something that ties those who ran
15:14the camp with her missing agents. So Vera tries to find documents that show which of her agents
15:22were murdered at Natsweiler. Four of her agents were sent there from Karlsruher prison. Surely
15:32Fräulein Becker, at Karlsruher, would have kept records.
15:36I need to see your records. Now, please. We don't have any. I can't imagine that. The
15:48French. When they came, they destroyed everything. Smashed it all up. All gone.
15:57Fräulein Becker tells Vera that all the prison documents were destroyed by the French. Now,
16:05that reeks of a lie. Vera must have known she was lying, because why would the French
16:10go to a German prison and just randomly destroy all the records?
16:16But she's nowhere for finding out unless Fräulein Becker tells her the truth. And how
16:21was she going to get her to do that? Vera chooses to visit Becker again, this time with
16:31the S.A.S.
16:41At Karlsruher prison, Barkworth and Vera confront Fräulein Becker.
16:46Where are they? Where are what? The records! I don't know. I know you know. Where are they? I don't know.
16:59Search of it. All of it! You said the French destroyed everything. They did. Why would they do that? I don't know! Because you lie!
17:09Mom! What do we have here, hmm? I don't know. The records. You lie. Liar!
17:39The records. You lie.
17:44Vera and Barkworth go through the prison records.
17:50Every entry and exit from the prison is marked.
17:55Vera finds entries that on the 6th of July 1944, four women agents are transferred from the prison at Karlsruher
18:03to the concentration camp at Natsweiler.
18:10This corroborates what Berg told Vera
18:13about four agents who were killed at Natsweiler.
18:23Vera now has clear evidence
18:25that four women agents were murdered.
18:29The names are André Borrell.
18:31Vera Lee, Diana Roden, and Sonja Olszunewski.
18:43The fourth name, Sonja Olszunewski, is unknown to Vera.
18:49Vera expected to see Noor's name or alias.
18:55Witnesses had identified Noor
18:57as traveling with this group to Natsweiler.
19:01Noor was born in Moscow,
19:03so a Russian-sounding alias could make sense.
19:09For Vera, Sonja Olszunewski's entry,
19:12taken with other evidence,
19:14is actually for Noor Inayat Khan.
19:19Vera has written evidence
19:21that four SOE women,
19:24including Noor Inayat Khan,
19:26are transported from Karlsruher to Natsweiler
19:28and most likely killed there.
19:32She can now take the evidence to trial.
19:35The 29th of May, 1946.
19:44The Natsweiler war crimes trial
19:46begins in Vorpital,
19:48in the west of Germany.
19:51The Natsweiler trial would have been so important to Vera,
19:55and it was her other chance
19:56to get information about the women
19:58so she could provide that to the families
20:00and their close ones,
20:01but also to bring these men to justice.
20:06This was the most brutal execution,
20:10murder, in fact, of these women.
20:12It didn't need to be done
20:13in such a horrific manner,
20:15if at all.
20:15This will be a British-led trial,
20:19with Nazis tried on German soil,
20:22but under international law.
20:25A trial about one of the Nazis'
20:28specially hidden concentration camps
20:30in the mountains of France.
20:34Natsweiler isn't particularly well-known,
20:36but it was in microcosm,
20:38the system of the concentration camps
20:41set up in Germany,
20:42and in this case in France.
20:43It was a camp of 22,000 deaths,
20:46around 55,000 people
20:48went through Natsweiler,
20:50so relatively small
20:51compared to some of the other
20:52concentration camps in the Reich,
20:54but nevertheless,
20:55a system of tremendous brutality,
20:58slave labour,
20:59medical experimentation,
21:00oppression,
21:01violence,
21:02the Kapo system,
21:03a terrible, terrible place.
21:05But before the trial starts,
21:11Vera receives a blunt instruction
21:13from her new boss,
21:15Norman Mott.
21:16Vera,
21:19everything,
21:20and I mean everything,
21:22has been done in London
21:24to keep this disgusting business
21:26out of the newspapers.
21:27I need you to ensure
21:30that the press's interest
21:31is discouraged.
21:33And to her reputations,
21:34any good?
21:37I understand.
21:42I suggest you start
21:43by getting the names of the dead
21:45withheld from the trial.
21:46Their families won't like it,
21:53Norman.
21:55They want to know
21:56what happened.
22:00Too bad.
22:02It's a disgusting business
22:04which is best buried.
22:10Have you got a match?
22:13No.
22:15Yeah.
22:17Jim.
22:25The Natsweiler trial
22:26would have been
22:27a troubling time for Vera,
22:28not only because of hearing
22:30the dreadful incidences
22:31and details of what had happened,
22:34but also that SOE
22:35was still a secretive organisation.
22:37People were not aware
22:38that women had been sent
22:40into the fields
22:40in violation of the Geneva Convention.
22:42and she probably worried
22:47not only if their names
22:49got out into the press
22:50what had happened to them,
22:51but there was questions
22:52to be start to raise
22:53about who had sent them,
22:55why had they sent them,
22:57why had this been allowed
22:58to happen.
23:01After four days of hearings,
23:03the verdicts are delivered
23:05to the accused.
23:14The medical officer
23:17who injected the women
23:18is given a death sentence.
23:20Peter Straub,
23:30SS officer in charge
23:31of the executions,
23:33is given 13 years in prison.
23:36Later that year,
23:38he is given a death sentence.
23:39Fritz Hardenstein,
23:43the commandant of Natsweiler,
23:44is imprisoned for life.
23:48The verdict of the Natsweiler trial
23:50was that the three men
23:51who were on trial
23:53for the murder
23:54of these SOE women
23:55were all found guilty.
23:57So in some respects,
23:58that's a very positive outcome.
24:00She had proved
24:01that this murder
24:01was unlawful,
24:03this execution,
24:04as they called it.
24:05But then the sentences
24:06may have been
24:08a bittersweet moment.
24:09Did Vera want
24:10an eye for an eye
24:10at this point?
24:11Did she want to see
24:12these men suffer
24:13and pay the ultimate price?
24:15Or was she just happy
24:16to have received
24:17the guilty verdict?
24:18She was a very
24:19straightforward woman
24:20and I think
24:21she would have been
24:22just pleased
24:23to have seen
24:23these men
24:24go down
24:25for what they'd done.
24:28Vera secures
24:30the agreement
24:30of the court
24:31that the names
24:32of the dead
24:32will be withheld
24:33from publication.
24:36Thanks to Vera's work,
24:38the trial fails
24:39to create Mott's
24:40much-feared
24:41newspaper sensation.
24:44Vera's role
24:45in the affair
24:46remains out
24:47of the public eye.
24:49For now.
24:58Vera turns her attention
24:59to her final
25:00three women spies
25:02from Karlsruhe
25:03who are unaccounted for.
25:06Yolande Beekman,
25:08Eliane Plumann
25:09and Madeleine Damermont.
25:16Vera comes across
25:18an interrogation statement
25:19taken by American investigators
25:21of Gestapo soldiers
25:23stationed in the town
25:25of Karlsruhe.
25:34One soldier,
25:36Max Vassmer,
25:38recalls transporting
25:39women prisoners
25:40from Karlsruhe
25:41to Dachau
25:42concentration camp.
25:46The ranks
25:47of three of the women
25:48match those
25:50of Vera's
25:50unaccounted agents
25:51and Vassmer's
25:54detailed description
25:55of one woman
25:56matches
25:57Madeleine Damermont.
26:03At Dachau,
26:05Vassmer reportedly
26:06tells his colleagues
26:07that he pronounced
26:08the death sentence
26:09on the women
26:09and that they were
26:13then killed.
26:16But can Vera
26:17be sure?
26:20Other Gestapo soldiers
26:22claim there were
26:23four women,
26:24not three,
26:25like Vassmer says.
26:27They also claim
26:28that one of the women
26:29came from a completely
26:30different prison
26:31called Pforzheim,
26:33not Karlsruhe,
26:34as Vassmer states.
26:36One of the problems
26:37that Vera has
26:38and indeed all
26:39of the people
26:40involved in the
26:40war crimes trials
26:41have is the
26:43veracity of the
26:43witnesses.
26:44Because when she
26:45got testimony
26:46or drawings
26:48or verification
26:49from her own
26:51side, her own
26:52agents or people
26:53who were also
26:54in the camps
26:54and said they saw
26:55three women
26:56or four women
26:57who came into
26:58the camp,
26:59she can believe them.
27:00They may not
27:00remember everything
27:01but at least she
27:03knows that they're
27:03being honest.
27:04But when you're
27:05relying on the
27:06testimony of an
27:06SS officer
27:07or a capo
27:08who's worked
27:09in the camp,
27:10they're also
27:11self-interested.
27:11They also want
27:12to exonerate
27:13themselves.
27:14And so it's
27:14very difficult
27:15often to know
27:16if they're
27:16telling the truth.
27:17And so even
27:18though she gets
27:19the Vassmer
27:19testimony and
27:20she thinks
27:21she's got
27:21some solid
27:22information about
27:23what's happened
27:23to her final
27:24three agents,
27:25she can't
27:26really be sure,
27:27particularly when
27:28then she gets
27:28contradictory
27:29evidence.
27:31Can Vera
27:32trust Vassmer's
27:33testimony in the
27:34report?
27:34Vera has to
27:37find Vassmer
27:38and interrogate
27:39him herself.
27:44August 1946.
27:49After months
27:50of searching,
27:51Vera tracks
27:52Vassmer down
27:53to internment
27:54camp number
27:5574 in
27:56Ludwigsberg,
27:57Germany.
27:58Vera is the
28:02only one who
28:03knows all
28:04three SOE
28:05agents.
28:05She knows
28:06them intimately
28:07and Max
28:07Vassmer says
28:09that he thinks
28:10he's identified
28:10them.
28:11Now, this is
28:11a huge big
28:12deal because
28:12Vera can
28:13actually get
28:14the man in
28:15front of her
28:15and determine
28:16whether these
28:17women were
28:18different women
28:19or were her
28:20agents.
28:20And, you
28:21know, being
28:21there and
28:22able to speak
28:22to somebody
28:23about it,
28:24where you
28:24know, you
28:25know, if you
28:25show somebody
28:25a photograph,
28:26you know
28:27when they go,
28:27if that's
28:28definitely
28:28the person
28:28or I
28:29think that's
28:29the person.
28:30And it's
28:30all to do
28:31with intonation.
28:31It's all to
28:32do with being
28:32in the same
28:33room as
28:33someone.
28:34So for
28:34Vera, being
28:35in the same
28:35room as
28:36Max
28:36Vassmer is
28:37really important
28:38so that
28:38she can
28:39interrogate
28:40him.
28:41Your name
28:42is Max
28:42Vassmer,
28:43correct?
28:46Yes.
28:49And you
28:50transported
28:50women from
28:51Karlsruhe
28:52prison to
28:53Dachau,
28:54correct?
28:57Yes.
29:15And then
29:16you watched
29:17as they were
29:17shot,
29:18correct?
29:21No.
29:23I handed
29:23them over
29:24to the guards.
29:26This report
29:27clearly states
29:28that witnesses
29:29saw you take
29:30the women
29:30to be shot.
29:34Well, I was
29:35there, yes.
29:37I wasn't
29:38present at the
29:40end.
29:42The guards
29:43took the women
29:44in, not me.
29:45we just, we
29:49just did
29:49transport.
29:52Then how
29:53did others
29:54know that
29:54four women
29:55were killed?
29:57Three.
29:58The report
29:59says four
30:00women.
30:02It was
30:03three.
30:05How can
30:05you be so
30:06sure?
30:07Because they
30:08gave me a
30:08receipt.
30:12A what?
30:15The next
30:17day, the
30:18guards gave
30:19me a receipt
30:19for three
30:20women spies
30:21shot dead.
30:23We needed
30:24it for
30:25bookkeeping
30:25back at
30:25Karlsruhe.
30:32Shall I
30:33describe them
30:34for you?
30:39Three women.
30:41VASPA provides
30:42descriptions
30:42of three women
30:44transferred from
30:45Karlsruhe to
30:46Dachau that
30:47match Vera's
30:48records of
30:49three SOE
30:50women.
30:52Vera has
30:52sufficient proof
30:53that her SOE
30:54agents,
30:55Jolande
30:56Beekman,
30:57Eliane
30:57Plumman,
30:59and Madeleine
31:00Dahmermoor,
31:01are killed
31:02at Dachau.
31:05Vera, after
31:06interviewing Max
31:07VASPA, now
31:08has everybody
31:09accounted for.
31:10she knows
31:11exactly where
31:12all of her
31:13agents ended
31:14up and
31:14there must
31:15have been a
31:15wonderful sense
31:16of completion
31:17but also
31:17this tragic
31:18pang of
31:20knowing that
31:21there's nobody
31:22left to be
31:22saved and just
31:23the horrific
31:24nature of their
31:25deaths.
31:25It must have
31:26been absolutely
31:27awful.
31:27Vera now
31:36believes she
31:36has sufficient
31:37evidence to
31:38account for
31:39every one of
31:40her lost
31:40women spies
31:41alive or
31:43dead.
31:46She writes
31:47up a report
31:48for London
31:48closing the
31:50case.
31:50Of the
31:5339 women
31:54Vera sent
31:55to war,
31:5627 returned
31:58alive.
32:00Many
32:00after
32:01sustained
32:02torture.
32:08Twelve
32:08lose their
32:09lives at
32:10the hands
32:10of the
32:11Nazis.
32:11she encloses
32:18draft letters
32:19to be sent
32:20to the
32:20women's
32:20next of
32:21kin.
32:22Details of
32:23their names
32:23to be
32:24completed
32:24in London.
32:28It is with
32:29the deepest
32:29regret that
32:30I have to
32:31inform you
32:31that your
32:32daughter was
32:33killed in
32:34the early
32:34hours of
32:35the 13th
32:35of September
32:361944 in
32:38the camp
32:39of Dachau.
32:40According to
32:41what is
32:42believed to
32:42be a
32:43reliable
32:43report,
32:44she was
32:44shot through
32:45the back
32:45of the
32:46head and
32:47death was
32:47immediate.
32:49The body
32:49was cremated
32:50in the
32:51camp
32:51crematorium.
32:53Vera does
32:54succeed in
32:55discovering the
32:57fate of the
32:5812 missing
32:58women agents
32:59and in that
33:01sense there is
33:02closure for
33:03her.
33:04She has
33:04succeeded in
33:05discovering what's
33:06happened to
33:06all of them
33:07but also it
33:08means that she
33:09can write to
33:10the families
33:11and personally
33:12tell them
33:13what's happened
33:14and she carries
33:15that for the
33:16rest of her
33:17life.
33:18What you find
33:19later in life
33:20is some of the
33:21children of the
33:22agents who died
33:23in action
33:24actually seek her
33:25out.
33:25They travel from
33:26across the
33:26world because
33:27she's the one
33:28tangible
33:29physical link
33:31with those
33:32agents.
33:33and so she
33:34assumes a
33:35really important
33:35role not
33:37only immediately
33:38after investigations
33:40but for the
33:41rest of her
33:42life.
33:43She's the one
33:43that carries
33:44their memory.
33:49Vera has
33:50finally uncovered
33:51the fate of
33:52her missing
33:52women and
33:54prepares to
33:54leave Germany.
33:55with this
34:01part of her
34:02mission over
34:02Vera will
34:04return to
34:04England.
34:13Now she
34:14must answer
34:15the hardest
34:16question.
34:18How did
34:20it all go
34:21so wrong?
34:33Vera must
34:34now uncover
34:35why so many
34:36of her
34:37agents were
34:38captured and
34:39how the
34:39Nazi
34:40intelligence
34:40service seemed
34:42to infiltrate
34:43SOE's agent
34:44networks so
34:45successfully.
34:47When Vera
34:47returns to
34:48England there's
34:49a niggling
34:50doubt in her
34:51mind that
34:52perhaps they
34:53have been
34:54betrayed,
34:55she has been
34:55betrayed,
34:56perhaps there
34:57was a spy
34:58within the
34:59SOE,
35:00perhaps there
35:01was somebody
35:01betraying them
35:02all, all
35:03along.
35:06And the
35:07most terrifying
35:08fear starts to
35:09take hold of
35:10her that somebody
35:10very close to
35:11her, somebody
35:12who she has
35:13to have worked
35:13with at SOE
35:15itself might
35:16have actually
35:16betrayed her
35:17and she has
35:18to start
35:18thinking,
35:19did I
35:20send these
35:21agents out
35:22to their
35:23deaths?
35:24Were they
35:24being
35:24parachuted
35:25to or flown
35:26to the
35:27waiting arms
35:28of treachery?
35:31The man
35:32who is
35:32key to this
35:33is the
35:33head of
35:34Nazi
35:34security
35:35in France,
35:36Hans Kiefer,
35:37who is
35:38hiding
35:38somewhere
35:39in Germany.
35:42Find Kiefer
35:43and you
35:44find the
35:45traitor.
35:58Vera passes
35:59a tip to
35:59her friend,
36:00SAS Major
36:01Bill Barkworth,
36:02that Kiefer
36:03might be
36:04hiding in
36:04his hometown
36:05of Garmisch
36:06in Bavaria.
36:07With
36:13Kiefer
36:13on the
36:14run,
36:14Vera
36:15turns to
36:15another
36:16leading
36:16Nazi
36:17to try
36:17and uncover
36:18how the
36:19Germans
36:19captured
36:20her
36:20women
36:20agents.
36:24He is
36:25the man
36:25who
36:25masterminded
36:26the Nazi
36:26radio
36:27operation
36:27in
36:28northern
36:28France.
36:32Dr.
36:33Josef
36:33Goetz.
36:37Goetz
36:41worked as
36:42one of
36:42Kiefer's
36:42lead
36:43counter
36:43intelligence
36:44officers.
36:46Dr.
36:47Goetz
36:47works
36:48in
36:48Avenue
36:49Foch
36:49in
36:49the
36:50Sicherheitsdienst
36:51headquarters
36:51in Paris
36:52and he's
36:53an
36:53underling
36:54of
36:54SS
36:55Strombanfuer
36:55or
36:56Kiefer
36:56from
36:56the
36:57Sicherheitsdienst
36:57and his
36:59job
36:59is
37:00effectively
37:00to
37:01engage
37:02in
37:02counter
37:02espionage
37:03to
37:04collect
37:04the
37:05evidence
37:06letters
37:06documents
37:07from
37:07enemy
37:07agents
37:08and
37:08keep
37:09them
37:09analyze
37:09them
37:10and
37:10then
37:10give
37:11that
37:11information
37:11forward
37:12back
37:12to
37:12Kiefer
37:13and
37:13inform
37:13him
37:14about
37:14what
37:14the
37:14agents
37:15are
37:15up
37:15to.
37:17There
37:17is
37:17one
37:18thing
37:18Goetz
37:18is
37:19especially
37:19good
37:19at
37:20which
37:20is
37:21fooling
37:21the
37:21British
37:22with
37:22fake
37:23radio
37:23transmissions.
37:28London
37:29was
37:29oblivious
37:30that
37:30agents
37:30had
37:31been
37:31captured
37:31and
37:33that
37:34Goetz
37:34was
37:34using
37:35information
37:35tortured
37:36out
37:36of them
37:36to
37:37trick
37:37SOE
37:38into
37:39revealing
37:39intelligence
37:40about
37:41the
37:41agents
37:41circuits.
37:43It's
37:43basically
37:44a game
37:45that they
37:45were playing
37:46with the
37:47British
37:47by sending
37:48them false
37:49messages
37:49through their
37:50own
37:50wireless
37:51transmitters.
37:51So when
37:52you'd capture
37:52an agent
37:53it'd be taken
37:54back to
37:54Avenue
37:54Foch
37:55and they'd
37:56been
37:56interrogated
37:57and their
37:57actual
37:57transmitter
37:58was kept.
37:59So that
38:00meant that
38:00when they
38:01gave them
38:02the right
38:02codes
38:03they could
38:03then give
38:04false
38:05messages
38:05back to
38:06London
38:06and get
38:07them to
38:07do all
38:08sorts of
38:08things that
38:08they wanted
38:09to make
38:09them think
38:09that agents
38:10were still
38:10okay and
38:11hadn't been
38:11detained or
38:12indeed give
38:13them false
38:14messages about
38:15what was
38:15happening in
38:16the war that
38:16would get
38:16passed up
38:17the chain
38:17to Winston
38:18Churchill
38:18and affect
38:19the war.
38:22Goetz is
38:23one of
38:23thousands of
38:24suspected war
38:24criminals arrested
38:26after the war
38:27but when it
38:28is discovered
38:29that he is
38:30the radio
38:30mastermind
38:31at Avenue
38:31Foch
38:32he is sent
38:33to England
38:33for further
38:34interrogation.
38:38Funkspiel
38:38that's what
38:40we called it
38:41the radio
38:42game
38:43and London
38:45was very
38:45bad at it.
38:48We would
38:49impersonate
38:50one of your
38:50agents
38:51ask questions
38:53and London
38:55would give us
38:55the answer.
38:57with a
38:57little slap
38:59on the wrist.
39:01Please use
39:02your security
39:03code next
39:03time.
39:11London
39:12was a joke.
39:14When the
39:15agents we
39:16captured
39:16knew how
39:17much we
39:17knew already
39:17well
39:19they simply
39:21gave up.
39:24What did
39:25you do
39:25once the
39:26agents
39:26were caught?
39:27we
39:30interrogated
39:32them
39:32for more
39:34personal
39:35information.
39:37More?
39:40Kiefer
39:40told your
39:41agents
39:42that we
39:43knew all
39:44their secrets
39:44already
39:45and if
39:46they wanted
39:47to live
39:47well
39:49they'd have
39:51to collaborate
39:52with him.
39:53how did
39:56Kiefer
39:57know so much?
39:59Personal
40:00information
40:00was never
40:01shared by
40:01radio.
40:03No.
40:05Not by
40:05radio.
40:08The only
40:09personal
40:09information
40:10was sent
40:11by...
40:11by mail.
40:21Gertz reveals
40:22that Kiefer
40:23somehow gets
40:24access to
40:25personal letters
40:26that Vera's
40:28agents send
40:28from France
40:29back home
40:30to England.
40:31uncoded letters
40:38full of private
40:40information.
40:44Vera discovers
40:45that Kiefer has
40:46actually had
40:47access to all
40:49of the mail
40:49from the
40:50agents
40:50so they
40:52didn't have a
40:53chance when the
40:53agents had
40:54dropped into
40:54France.
40:55The Germans
40:55know exactly
40:56who's coming
40:57and when
40:57and that
40:58realisation
41:00that the
41:00Germans were
41:01reading all
41:02the agents
41:02mail must
41:04have been
41:04such a
41:05shocking
41:06revelation
41:06to Vera.
41:07And then
41:08it leads
41:09to the
41:09next question
41:10who had
41:11betrayed
41:12them?
41:17How did
41:18Kiefer
41:18get the
41:19mail?
41:21Kiefer
41:22told me
41:23that he
41:24got it
41:24from
41:24Gilbert.
41:27Yes.
41:41I believe
41:41that's him.
41:46Gilbert
41:46is the
41:47codename
41:48for
41:48French
41:49agent
41:50Henri
41:51Deracore.
41:57The man
42:02SOE
42:02had trusted
42:03with the
42:04safety
42:04of their
42:04agents
42:05appears
42:06to be
42:06a
42:07traitor.
42:09Deracore
42:10had already
42:11been recalled
42:11to London
42:12by Buckmaster
42:13and Boddington
42:14after allegations
42:15of collaborating
42:16with the
42:17Nazis.
42:19Deracore
42:20pleaded
42:20his innocence
42:21and after
42:22an investigation
42:23Don't worry
42:24Deracore
42:25we'll clear
42:26this whole
42:26sorry
42:26business
42:27up.
42:28Thanks
42:28sir.
42:29He is
42:29cleared.
42:32Vera
42:33is put
42:34in a
42:34position
42:34where she
42:35either
42:35believes
42:36a Nazi
42:36or a
42:37possible
42:38double
42:38agent.
42:39Henri
42:39Deracore
42:40is in
42:40the
42:40heart
42:41of the
42:41SOE.
42:42He
42:42is one
42:43of their
42:43own.
42:44This
42:44is a
42:45man
42:45that she
42:45hands
42:46over
42:46her
42:46agents
42:47to.
42:47How
42:47could
42:47she
42:47possibly
42:48believe
42:49that he
42:49could be
42:50a double
42:50agent?
42:50He
42:50was
42:50cleared.
42:51I
42:51mean
42:51surely
42:52everybody
42:52knows
42:53him.
42:54But how
42:54did the
42:55Nazis
42:55know so
42:56much?
42:57How
42:57is it
42:58possible?
42:59And here
42:59is
42:59Goertz
43:00saying
43:01well
43:01you know
43:01this.
43:02I'm
43:02telling
43:03you
43:03the
43:03truth.
43:04And
43:04it
43:04must
43:05have
43:05been
43:05such
43:06a
43:06worm
43:07in
43:07her
43:07mind.
43:08Was
43:08Deracore
43:09a spy?
43:10A
43:10double
43:11agent?
43:12So
43:13who
43:13is
43:14telling
43:14the
43:14truth?
43:15Deracore
43:16or
43:17Goertz?
43:19One
43:20of the
43:20problems
43:20with
43:21trying
43:21to
43:21tease
43:22out
43:22a
43:23spy
43:23is
43:23that
43:24you
43:24have
43:24to
43:24trust
43:25people
43:25that
43:25you
43:25don't
43:25trust.
43:27And
43:27in
43:27this
43:27case
43:27she's
43:28talking
43:28to
43:28people
43:28like
43:28Dr.
43:29Goertz
43:29from
43:29the
43:29SD.
43:31And
43:31it's
43:31in
43:31his
43:32vested
43:32interest
43:33and
43:33has
43:33been
43:33for
43:34years
43:35to
43:35play
43:36cat
43:36and
43:36mouse
43:36games
43:37with
43:37the
43:37SOE
43:38and
43:38with
43:38people
43:39like
43:39Vera.
43:39And
43:40so
43:40she
43:40has
43:40to
43:41decide
43:41well
43:41can
43:42I
43:42trust
43:42somebody
43:42like
43:43Dr.
43:43Goertz
43:43so
43:44these
43:45doubts
43:45are
43:46also
43:46in
43:46her
43:46mind
43:47what
43:47does
43:48she
43:48really
43:48know?
43:54The
43:55only
43:55way
43:56for
43:56Vera
43:56to
43:56be
43:57sure
43:57is
43:58to
43:58find
43:58the
43:58mastermind
43:59for
43:59all
44:00Nazi
44:00intelligence
44:01in
44:01northern
44:01France
44:02Hans
44:03Kiefer
44:04a
44:06man
44:06who
44:07is
44:07on
44:07the
44:07run
44:07hiding
44:08somewhere
44:09in
44:10Germany
44:10But
44:21all
44:22of
44:22Vera's
44:22work
44:23comes
44:23into
44:23question
44:24when
44:25she
44:25receives
44:25a
44:25letter
44:26forwarded
44:26by
44:27her
44:27superior
44:27Norman
44:28Mott.
44:31The
44:32letter
44:32is
44:33written
44:33by
44:33Yolande
44:34Lagrave
44:34a
44:35member
44:35of
44:36the
44:36French
44:36resistance.
44:39Lagrave
44:40writes
44:40that
44:41in
44:41June
44:411943
44:42she
44:43was
44:43arrested
44:44by
44:44the
44:44Gestapo
44:45and
44:46transferred
44:46to
44:47Pforzheim
44:47prison.
44:53I was
44:54able to
44:55correspond
44:55with an
44:56English
44:56parachutist
44:57who was
44:57locked up
44:58there
44:58also.
44:59She
44:59was
44:59very
45:00unhappy.
45:02Her
45:02hands
45:03and feet
45:03were
45:03chained
45:04and she
45:05was
45:05never
45:05allowed
45:06out.
45:06I
45:07heard
45:08the
45:08blows
45:08which
45:09she
45:09received
45:09from
45:09the
45:09prison
45:10guards.
45:11She
45:11was
45:11taken
45:11away
45:12from
45:12Fortsheim
45:13in
45:13September
45:141944.
45:16Before
45:16she
45:16left
45:17she
45:17had
45:18been
45:18able
45:18to
45:18send
45:18me
45:19not
45:19her
45:19name
45:20because
45:20it
45:20was
45:20too
45:21dangerous
45:21but
45:21her
45:21alias
45:22and
45:23she
45:23also
45:23wrote
45:23down
45:23her
45:24address
45:24for
45:24me.
45:25It
45:25was
45:25this
45:26Nora
45:27Baker
45:27Radio
45:28Center
45:29Officer
45:29Service
45:30RAF
45:304
45:31Taveston
45:31Street
45:32London.
45:33I
45:34kept
45:34the
45:34address
45:35on a
45:35piece
45:35of
45:35paper
45:36sewn
45:36into
45:36my
45:36hand.
45:39Noor
45:40Inayat
45:40Khan
45:41had been
45:41recruited
45:42as a
45:42wireless
45:43operator
45:43from
45:44the
45:44WAF
45:44the
45:45women's
45:45division
45:46of
45:46the
45:46RAF.
45:494
45:49Taveston
45:50Street
45:50London
45:50had once
45:51been
45:52her
45:52family's
45:52home
45:53and
45:54Nora
45:54Baker
45:55had once
45:56been
45:57her
45:57alias.
46:10Vera
46:10believes
46:11the
46:11prisoner
46:11Lagrave
46:12writes
46:12about
46:13is
46:14Noor.
46:15And
46:16if
46:16Noor
46:16had been
46:17held
46:17at
46:17Pforzheim
46:18until
46:18September
46:191944
46:20then
46:21there
46:21is
46:22no
46:22way
46:22she
46:22could
46:23have
46:23been
46:23one
46:23of
46:23the
46:23four
46:24women
46:24killed
46:24at
46:24Natsviler
46:25in
46:26July
46:261944.
46:29When
46:29Vera
46:30learns
46:30about
46:30Noor's
46:31fate
46:31and
46:32the
46:32fact
46:32that
46:32she's
46:32gone
46:32to
46:33Forzheim
46:33it's
46:33such a
46:34mix
46:34of
46:34emotions
46:35because
46:35here
46:36she
46:36thought
46:36she's
46:36written
46:37to
46:37the
46:37family
46:37that
46:38Noor
46:39has
46:39been
46:39killed
46:39in
46:39Natsviler
46:40she
46:41she
46:41she
46:41has
46:41internalized
46:42that
46:42now
46:43dealt
46:43with
46:43that
46:44thought
46:44there's
46:44been
46:44some
46:45closure
46:45and
46:45now
46:46this
46:46has
46:46opened
46:46up
46:46something
46:47else
46:47could
46:48Noor
46:48be
46:48alive
46:48did
46:49she
46:49manage
46:49to
46:49get
46:50out
46:50what
46:50happened
46:51to
46:51her
46:51so
46:52she
46:52is
46:52in
46:52a
46:52space
46:53where
46:53now
46:53she
46:53has
46:54to
46:54find
46:54out
46:54the
46:55final
46:55journey
46:56she
46:56has
46:56to
46:56find
46:57out
46:57if
46:57she
46:57escaped
46:57there
46:58is
46:58a
46:58sliver
46:58of
46:58hope
46:58but
46:59also
46:59what
47:00could
47:00have
47:00happen
47:00to
47:00Noor
47:01so
47:02what
47:03did
47:03happen
47:04to
47:04Noor
47:04if
47:06she
47:06wasn't
47:07killed
47:07at
47:07Natsviler
47:08could
47:08Noor
47:09still
47:10be
47:10alive
47:11Vera
47:12has
47:13to
47:13uncover
47:13the
47:14truth
47:30Noor