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00:00world war ii is over
00:05but british women agents remain missing throughout europe the other english women
00:15how many were there answer me nazi radio mastermind joseph goertz gives spymaster
00:25vera atkins an explosive testimony yes i believe that's him implicating henry derrick or it's good
00:34to have someone out here we can trust i'm your man as the double agent who betrays the british
00:39soe to the gestapo derrick or is arrested in paris but has vera really got the man who betrayed her
00:49women agents whitehall has closed down the special operations executive but vera has evidence from a
01:00french resistance fighter that her agent nor inayat khan could still be alive vera will not give up
01:10one agent who does make it back alive is odette sansom she is driven out of ravensburg concentration
01:17camp by its commandant fritz suren this man is walking suren is now on the run but his deputy
01:26johann schwarzhuber what happened to her they were shot is in custody awaiting the ravensbrook trial
01:35it's the 5th of december 1946 in hamburg in the british zone of occupied germany
01:56the ravensbrook trial begins
01:58the defendants are concentration camp personnel from all divisions of the camp ss officers camp
02:10doctors female guards it is a nazi camp like no other bravensbrook was a concentration camp and
02:21unlike every other concentration camp it was a concentration camp for women
02:28it was particularly horrifying for the sensibilities of people in the 1940s as well where
02:34women are meant to be kept out of combat out of war and treated with some level of humanity
02:38ravensbrook was a particular horrific site to end up in
02:44the ravensbrook trial is important and it's unique because of the treatment of prisoners
02:53within the camp in particular the medical experiments that had been carried out for sterilizations for
02:59example
03:04vera's role in the trial is to manage the extensive evidence she has brought together
03:09her passing it on to the prosecutors
03:17but she must not reveal her role to the international press
03:29the trial features one of the camp's most notorious ss officers
03:44johann schwarzhuber he is about to face one of his accusers
03:52barrister could you please say who this man in front of us is johann schwarzhuber
03:59and who is your next witness
04:04odette sansam
04:10odette sansam is a star witness for the prosecution giving damning testimony about what happened at the
04:17camp at the hands of schwarzhuber and others
04:20the court hears the court hears from odette and other witnesses
04:27about the treatment of female agent violette sabo
04:32who is described talking about my baby my baby
04:38her young child left behind in britain
04:40and how violette and two other agents
04:51lillian rolfe and denise block
04:55are brought from the punishment block emaciated dirty and weak
05:01they are then taken behind the crematorium building
05:11and shot
05:14the trial would have been difficult for vera as the witnesses took the stands although she'd probably
05:19already interviewed some of them previously she may have compartmentalized it in some way
05:25but having seen and spoken to and befriended the agents that she had sent into the field the
05:33realization of what these women had sacrificed and what the overarching impact on their families
05:39were going to be it must have been harrowing for her
05:42at the end of the trial schwarzhuber is sentenced to death
05:51and executed on the 3rd of may 1947
05:56five of the female guards are also executed fritz suren the commandant remains a fugitive from justice
06:06but before the closing statements are finished vera is already on her way to try
06:14and track down the last of her lost women's spies nor inayat khan
06:20previously vera received a letter from a french resistance fighter yolande lagrave claiming she had
06:39contact with nor in a prison in forzheim in the west of germany
06:44this directly contradicted vera's evidence from crematorium stoker franz berg he claimed that nor
06:57was killed at the nutswiler concentration camp in france vera already has an eyewitness testimony
07:06from nazwiler saying that nor is dead and now she has another eyewitness testimony saying no that is
07:11not true she is here what eyewitness do you trust how does vera make this decision
07:18she needs some sort of corroborating evidence to prove one way or the other
07:27so what did happen to nor vera needs another witness statement
07:33so she decides to interrogate one particular gestapo soldier for a second time
07:45max vasma transported soe agents to dachau concentration camp in september 1944
07:53wasma claims that he transferred three women to the camp even though other witnesses say there was a fourth woman
08:07a woman from forzheim prison
08:09three
08:18three
08:18you're sure it was three
08:24three women not men women
08:28because the other gods say you're wrong
08:41the receipt said three women
08:46that is not what i asked did you take three women
08:51three
08:58four what's the difference
09:01it's all the difference
09:09so it was four
09:10three from carl stragoa
09:22and another
09:27from
09:30four time
09:32i think
09:32please tell me what they looked like
09:40all of them
09:45she looked like
09:47she may have been indian
09:50vasma
10:00vasma describes the fourth woman
10:05giving a description of a woman who vera believes
10:10is nor inayat khan
10:20oh
10:31vasma reveals
10:32that nor is taken outside the camp
10:35with the other women
10:36and made to kneel in front of a mound of earth
10:42the only word nor says before she is shot
10:46is the French word for freedom, Liberté.
10:56Thank you, Herr Vassmer.
11:00We're done.
11:03Vera can now put to rest her quest to find out Noor's story
11:08and her final resting place, the concentration camp at Dachau.
11:16Now, Vera must ask the hardest question of all.
11:27Who betrayed her women agents?
11:31Who is the person that betrayed Noor, Violette Szabo,
11:38and all of Vera's other women spies,
11:41so they ended up in the hands of the Nazis?
11:46Could it have been Henri Derricourt?
11:50There were allegations, but Vera still doesn't know for sure.
11:55The man who would know is Hans Kiefer,
12:05the man in charge of Nazi intelligence in Paris.
12:09To find him, Vera needs the SAS.
12:23SAS intelligence officer Major Bill Barkworth and his men
12:28stake out a small town in southern Germany.
12:31They've received a tip-off from Vera that Hans Kiefer has been spotted here.
12:41It is Kiefer's hometown.
12:43They are looking for the caretaker of a local hotel,
12:47who signs the town hall register as Hans Kiefer.
12:50The name is suspiciously similar, with only one F removed.
12:55The name is suspiciously similar, with only one F removed.
12:59The Mic Humphrey is also ancestry in Alaska.
13:00I just spent much blood, not two F removed.
13:01I just spent bottom money.
13:02The plot for the favor,
13:03it was vexux of the cooperation of Miss Heria.
13:04But him has made many stops!
13:06It is eerily when he used for hisνοel,
13:08Hepectedieu, or Selfie in the family,
13:09don't forcément risk of his role.
13:10It's extraordinary in the inn of the site.
13:19Your house is even known as an undergraduate,
13:20And even all we were to work to teachers,
13:22let them be brave to take place.
13:24Because he's も ked müsste wave to here for
13:25Hans-Joseph Kiefer, Senior Counterintelligence Officer, 84 Avenue 4, Paris.
13:55Yeah.
14:00Get 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.
14:21Vera is face to face with her secret enemy, Hans Kiefer.
14:29Hans Kiefer 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 executive
14:53agents in the field, so agents of the SOE in France.
14:57But the thing about Hans Kiefer 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, the man who holds the
15:23key to her lost women spies, and what really happened to Knorr, codename Madeleine.
15:31Berlin considered the French section of SOE particularly dangerous.
15:41Both the Führer and Himmler had shown a personal interest.
16:01I 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.
16:36Ruined me.
16:38So I sent her away.
16:43She ended up in Fortsheim, I think.
16:51She was a brave one.
16:52Her name was Knorr Inayat Khan.
17:06She is most likely dead.
17:10Shot through the head at Dachau.
17:12Kiefer, if one of us is going to cry, it is going to be me.
17:23You will please stop this comedy.
17:31Who betrayed them, Kiefer?
17:34Who betrayed Knorr?
17:36You're asking me if there was a traitor in your ranks.
17:48Why are you asking me?
17:52You know yourself, there was one.
17:57You recalled him to London.
17:59Gilbert?
18:00Gilbert?
18:08And who is Gilbert?
18:11I think you're now.
18:15Of course you're now.
18:19Only
18:20dare he call.
18:22Here, 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,
19:08all of the information that Kiefer knows about Derricor,
19:12obviously, 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,
19:23ended up in concentration camps.
19:25He's the reason that they were murdered.
19:28And 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
19:41who can testify against,
19:43and hopefully convict,
19:45Henri Derricor.
19:46June, 1948.
20:02Henri Derricor is brought to trial in Paris.
20:06Here 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.
20:24She 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.
20:30She had, like, affidavits from actual Nazi war criminals who named him.
20:36She 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.
20:53But 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.
21:06She is told that in June 1947,
21:12Kieffer was convicted of the murder of five SAS men
21:16and 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.
22:00Next, 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.
22:16But on the final day,
22:23one former officer does make the trip to Paris.
22:29None other than Nicholas Boddington.
22:38Could Boddington be the man to help get Derricor convicted?
22:42Boddington gives evidence.
22:52But instead of giving evidence against Derricor,
22:55Boddington testifies that Derricor's contact with the Nazis
22:59was fully authorised for counter-espionage purposes.
23:03Henri Derricor is found not to be a traitor.
23:14Instead, partially thanks to Boddington's testimony,
23:18he is acquitted.
23:20Derricor is a free man.
23:24Vera 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.
23:35Put 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
23:44not really try and pin him down
23:46and brings virtually no witnesses,
23:49but the defence,
23:50they 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.
24:04And she feels responsible for that
24:06because she's the person who sent them out there.
24:09How could you, Nick?
24:10Vera.
24:12How could you support that traitor?
24:15Testify for him after everything he did
24:17to my agents, our agents.
24:20Vera.
24:21You're a liar.
24:21Everything 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.
24:36If they were made as spies,
24:37they faced certain death.
24:40You sent them to their deaths.
24:43You sent a widow with a young daughter to France.
24:46That child is now an orphan.
24:47You 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.
25:06It appears that the men
25:10at the top of the British establishment
25:11want 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.
25:27In the early 1950s,
25:29writer Gene Overton Fuller
25:31begins researching
25:32a series of books
25:33about the SOE.
25:37Gene wants to find out
25:38what happened
25:39to her friend
25:40Noor Inayat Khan,
25:42who disappeared during the war
25:43after telling Gene
25:45she was going away.
25:49Despite being warned off
25:50by establishment figures,
25:53Fuller interviews
25:53former members
25:54of the SOE,
25:56and one man
25:57in particular.
25:58Her work results
26:15in three books
26:16about the SOE,
26:17with the last called
26:18Double Webs,
26:20published in 1958.
26:22The book makes
26:25the controversial claim
26:26that Noor
26:27and other agents
26:28are sent by the SOE
26:30into the hands
26:32of Henri Derricourt,
26:34with the full knowledge
26:35that Derricourt
26:36is a double agent,
26:38working with
26:40the Nazis.
26:44The book makes headlines.
26:47Delivery for Mrs Ward!
26:48Several MPs receive letters
26:51from the families
26:52of lost women spies
26:53wanting to know
26:54the whole truth
26:55about their daughters.
27:02One MP
27:03is Conservative member
27:05for Tyneside,
27:06Irene Ward.
27:11Irene,
27:12through the Home Office,
27:14requests an interview
27:15with someone
27:16who knows
27:16what happened.
27:18The Home Office
27:19sends Vera...
27:32Overton Fuller
27:34writes and I quote...
27:35I have read the book,
27:37Mrs 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?
28:04Perhaps you could
28:05ask him yourself.
28:06I'm sure Miss Overton Fuller
28:08could direct you to him.
28:10Miss Atkins,
28:15what concerns me
28:18is that the S.O.E.,
28:20that your superiors,
28:22that you,
28:24were sending women
28:25to fight
28:25in the full knowledge
28:26they had no chance
28:27to survive.
28:29Mrs Ward,
28:30what did you do
28:32during the war?
28:34I served my constituents.
28:36Atkins,
28:45your mother's name,
28:48I believe.
28:50Your father's name,
28:53Rose.
28:55Rosenberg,
28:56if I'm not mistaken.
28:57and you're from
29:00Romania originally.
29:04How did a young
29:05Romanian girl
29:06like yourself
29:07and...
29:07I'm so sorry,
29:08Mrs Ward,
29:09but I have another meeting.
29:15Good day,
29:16Miss Atkins.
29:19See yourself out, please.
29:20After the meeting,
29:26Irene Ward
29:26digs into Vera's
29:28personal history,
29:29who she is,
29:31where she comes from,
29:32and what she really did
29:33at S.O.E.
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 S.O.E.
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,
30:15but he's also a historian.
30:16So he's got that authority
30:17as well.
30:18He understands
30:18how to write
30:19about history
30:20and he understands
30:21that there are still
30:22some secrets
30:24that 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
30:35important work,
30:37the only reply
30:38is the work
30:39had to be done
30:40and there was
30:41nobody else
30:42to send.
30:42Professor 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 S.O.E.
31:02So why does
31:07Vera hide
31:08who she really is?
31:10Because Vera
31:11is forced
31:12to cover up
31:13not just her public story
31:14and the lost women's spies,
31:16but also
31:17the private story
31:19of her family's life.
31:20Miss Atkins,
31:33I would like
31:34three copies of this,
31:35please.
31:35One for the war.
31:36It was a closely guarded
31:37secret at S.O.E.
31:39that Vera was born
31:40in Romania
31:41rather than the U.K.
31:46But that wasn't
31:47Vera's only secret.
31:50Vera was not
32:00born Vera Atkins
32:01but Vera Rosenberg.
32:07Vera is one
32:09of three children
32:09of Max and 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 wood mill
32:21in Bukovina,
32:22a region
32:23that will become
32:23part of Romania.
32:28But after
32:29Vera's father dies
32:31in 1932
32:32and with anti-Semitism
32:33in Europe
32:34on the rise,
32:36Vera and her two brothers
32:37move to the United Kingdom
32:39where they take
32:42their English mother's
32:43surname
32:44home of Atkins.
32:48Vera leaves behind
32:49in Romania
32:50an extended family.
32:53As the Nazis
32:54take hold of Europe,
32:56the family who stay
32:57are in mortal danger.
32:59The terror
33:02that people
33:03live with
33:03cannot be
33:04underestimated
33:05even if they
33:06weren't
33:06actually at
33:07direct risk
33:08of being moved
33:09to concentration camps.
33:10This isn't just
33:11my family,
33:12this isn't just
33:13my 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
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
33:25whatever they could
33:26to help.
33:30According to
33:30a family story,
33:32Vera's family
33:33in the UK
33:34raise a large amount
33:35of money
33:35to help
33:36their European relatives.
33:40My dad,
33:41my uncle
33:41and Vera
33:42were very keen
33:43to provide
33:44any help
33:44they could
33:45so they obviously
33:46found money
33:46and they found
33:47resources
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
33:53needed to go.
33:55You needed
33:55to leave England,
33:57you needed
33:57to get on a boat
33:58and you needed
33:58to go
33:59and practically help.
34:02Vera
34:02travels to Antwerp,
34:04Belgium
34:04in 1940
34:05just as the Nazis
34:07are about to invade.
34:17During the war,
34:19people would often
34:19store their wealth
34:20in something
34:21that could be
34:22more easily
34:22hidden
34:23and transported.
34:31Diamonds
34:32For hundreds of years,
34:44Antwerp
34:45has been the center
34:46of the diamond trade
34:47in Europe.
34:50Vera is believed
34:51to have converted
34:52to have converted
34:52the money
34:53from the UK
34:54into diamonds
34:55for the family
34:56in Romania.
35:01But who are
35:02the relatives
35:03facing Nazi persecution
35:05that Vera wants
35:06to save?
35:07Fritz Rosenberg
35:18is a cousin.
35:19Vera's cousin.
35:21Vera's relatives
35:22in the 1940s
35:23faced disaster.
35:30The region
35:31has been occupied
35:32by Hungary,
35:34an ally
35:34of Nazi Germany.
35:35under new anti-Jewish laws.
35:38Under new anti-Jewish laws,
35:42Fritz and his wife Karen
35:44lose their passports.
35:47They may even be deported
35:48to concentration camps.
35:53But without a passport,
35:55they are unable to escape
35:56to another country.
35:58This rise in anti-Semitism
36:02in the law
36:03is reflected
36:03in the population.
36:05They wouldn't be able
36:06to trust their neighbours.
36:07They wouldn't be able
36:08to trust that
36:09at any point
36:10they might be snatched away
36:12in the middle of the night.
36:13They could be put on a train
36:14and taken to God knows where.
36:15I mean,
36:16it must have been
36:16absolutely terrifying
36:17for them.
36:20Karen Rosenberg
36:21contacts a German
36:23family friend.
36:24someone who has
36:27good contacts
36:28with the Abwehr,
36:29German military intelligence.
36:36Karen is able
36:37to obtain Aryan passports
36:39issued by the Nazi government
36:40for her and Fritz.
36:42The Rosenbergs pay
36:47the Abwehr
36:47a large sum,
36:49about £150,000
36:51in today's money,
36:52to get the prized passports.
36:57Money that could be
36:58the diamonds
36:59that Vera sources
37:00in Antwerp.
37:03Karen and Fritz
37:03are able
37:04to leave Romania.
37:07They are free,
37:09but it's a freedom
37:10that comes
37:11at a personal cost.
37:20Fritz and Karen
37:21relocate
37:22to the safety
37:23of Istanbul,
37:24where Vera's brother,
37:29Ralph Rosenberg,
37:30lives.
37:32The reason
37:33they go to Istanbul
37:34is because
37:35of a condition
37:36set by the Abwehr.
37:41Vera's brother
37:43is not only working
37:45for an oil company
37:46in Istanbul,
37:47but also supplying
37:49MI6
37:50with local intelligence.
37:56The Abwehr
37:57want Karen
37:58to give them
37:59valuable information
38:00about Ralph
38:01and MI6.
38:10Vera had almost
38:12certainly gone
38:13to Antwerp
38:14to raise the money
38:15for Fritz
38:16and Karen's
38:17passports,
38:18the very passports
38:20that allow
38:20the Abwehr
38:21to get close
38:22to an MI6 agent.
38:24Vera has paid
38:27the bribe.
38:28She's possibly
38:29met German
38:30intelligence officers
38:31face to face.
38:33Karen herself
38:34has had contact
38:36with a German
38:37intelligence officer
38:38who's asked her
38:39to work
38:40for the Germans.
38:41It's beginning
38:42to look really
38:43suspicious.
38:44Anyone looking
38:45at this situation,
38:47it's going
38:48to 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
39:05passports
39:05from the Abwehr,
39:07it would have put
39:08Vera
39:08under serious
39:09suspicion
39:10of being
39:11a double agent.
39:12Instead,
39:16Vera keeps
39:17her family story
39:18a closely
39:19guarded secret.
39:21And when
39:22the British
39:22security services
39:23publish
39:24MRD Foote's
39:25History of the SOE,
39:28Vera has
39:29all mention
39:30of her Romanian
39:31family roots
39:32erased.
39:34But despite
39:35the security services
39:37best attempts
39:38to cover up
39:39the story
39:39of the lost
39:40women spies,
39:42it's a story
39:43that just
39:44won't go away.
39:49After creating
39:50controversy
39:51with her book
39:52Double Webs,
39:53Jean Overton Fuller
39:55starts researching
39:56a new book.
39:57This time
39:58about Henri
39:59Derricor's
40:00relationship
40:01not with the Nazis
40:02but with MI6.
40:05The book
40:06is called
40:06The Checkered Spy
40:08and it claims
40:10Derricor
40:10wasn't just
40:11a double agent
40:12but that he
40:14was spying
40:14on the SOE
40:16on the orders
40:17of MI6.
40:20Derricor
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.
40:32The suggestion
40:36is that members
40:37of the British
40:38security services
40:39knew that the
40:40women Vera trained
40:41like Noor Inayat Khan,
40:46like Violet Sabo,
40:50like Odette Sansom
40:53were being sent
40:54into the hands
40:55of a known
40:56double agent.
41:00But Henri Derricor
41:01never sees the day
41:03that the book
41:04is published.
41:04Sub-editor's desk.
41:33Boddington?
41:36Yes?
41:38It's Buckmaster.
41:40Good grief.
41:43Been a while.
41:45How are you?
41:47Good.
41:48Thanks, Bucks.
41:49You?
41:51Seeing the news.
41:54Derricor's
41:55disappeared
41:56in the Far East.
41:56A plane he was
41:58flying carrying
41:59a cargo load
42:00of gold.
42:01I think the cause
42:02of the crash
42:03was, uh,
42:04fuel starvation.
42:07No.
42:08No, I haven't
42:09seen it.
42:11What does that mean?
42:15Any survivors?
42:17No.
42:18And they can't
42:19find Derricor's body.
42:21Wasn't Vera
42:25close to that man
42:26from the SAS?
42:28Sort 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.
42:39I think she works
42:43for the UN now.
42:46Well,
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.
43:09Vera Atkins
43:15retires
43:16to the south
43:17coast of Britain,
43:18moving to
43:19Winchelsea.
43:21She has a steady
43:22but discreet
43:23stream of visitors,
43:25including Tanya
43:26Sabo,
43:27the daughter
43:28of agent
43:28Violette Sabo.
43:39now received the
43:43George Cross
43:44for Mother.
43:50Odette
43:51Samson was the
43:52first ever woman
43:53to receive that.
43:58The French
43:59also gave Mother
44:00the quadriguer.
44:00that was good
44:04of them.
44:09And
44:10Noor received
44:11both medals
44:11too.
44:15There's a memorial
44:16now at Dachau.
44:17And now you
44:26received your
44:27CBE.
44:28Finally.
44:29They took their
44:30time, didn't they?
44:33Are you looking
44:34forward to the
44:34ceremony?
44:35Are you looking
44:35forward to the ceremony?
44:35We'll see,
44:40won't we?
44:47I'll leave this here.
44:56I always
44:57drove them
44:57down to the
44:58aerodromes.
45:01It always
45:01seemed to be
45:02a summer's day.
45:03I saw
45:05them off.
45:08When the war
45:09ended and when
45:10they didn't come
45:11back, I went
45:11looking for them
45:12all.
45:16Missing,
45:16presumed dead.
45:21It's such a
45:22terrible epitaph
45:23for anyone.
45:29Can't believe
45:29my time has
45:30finally come.
45:32Been such a
45:33whirlwind.
45:33and yet
45:36the adventure's
45:37just about to
45:38start.
45:40Remember what
45:41they've taught
45:42you,
45:42Noor.
45:44Yes,
45:45Miss Atkins.
45:50There.
45:52You're clean.
45:56You're so smart,
45:57Miss Atkins.
45:59You always
45:59wear the nicest
46:00things.
46:00here.
46:05It's yours.
46:10May it bring you
46:11luck.
46:18Thank you,
46:19Miss Atkins.
46:20Are you ready?
46:21Yes,
46:21Miss Atkins.
46:21Are you ready?
46:21Yes,
46:25Miss Atkins.
46:28Very good.
46:29Very good.
46:29Very good.
46:29Very good.
46:29Very good.
46:29Very good.
46:33Here,
46:35Miss Atkins.
46:42All right,
46:43I'm ready.
46:43I'm ready.
46:44I'm ready.
46:45I'm ready.
46:46I'm ready.
46:46And now,
46:47you're ready.
46:47I'm ready.
46:47I'm ready.
46:47I'm ready.