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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.
02:11The Allied invasion of Europe to recapture France from the Nazis has begun.
02:18They're coming.
02:20They're coming.
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?
13:37what comes from the beginning of the world
13:37and they're driving to meet other SOE leaders
13:40but what they don't know
13:42is the resistance have caught one of the SS commanders of the 2nd panzer division
13:47and the Germans are frantic to get him back
13:49and they start mounting roadblocks
13:52and they start searching people asking 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.
26:01Then, a report comes in
26:04from a member of Yvonne Basden's SOE circuit.
26:11After Yvonne and her colleagues
26:12had hidden all the equipment
26:14that had come in on this daylight parachute drop,
26:17they headed back to their headquarters.
26:22But soon after they arrive,
26:24everything changes.
26:29The Germans, they're coming.
26:31What?
26:32We spotted a patrol of German soldiers.
26:34They're heading for us.
26:35Do we have time to move?
26:37No.
26:39Hide what you can, then hide yourself.
26:53The Germans who arrived,
26:54they just heard a tip-off
26:56that this building might be of some interest
26:58and they're just going to do a cursory search.
27:25There is literally nobody in sight.
27:27They can't find anybody.
27:29So they leave,
27:30but they just leave behind one person.
27:33He's effectively watching it
27:35just in case something happens
27:36or somebody arrives.
27:37One can only imagine
27:39what would be going through
27:40the minds of Yvonne and her team
27:42as they are hiding,
27:43holding their breath,
27:44not moving
27:45because they have to be totally quiet.
27:48And then the plumbing makes a noise.
27:57Hello?
27:59Is anybody in there?
28:08I heard something.
28:10Keep searching.
28:29I heard something.
28:47In London,
28:48Vera scours allied intelligence reports,
28:51searching for any clues
28:53to her agent's whereabouts.
28:57who survived where were they being held and where were they now she has cause for optimism
29:06some agents are surfacing after the liberation of paris one of her agents mary herbert astonishingly
29:17has survived hiding in a farmhouse in france it gives vera hope that some of the other women might
29:25still be alive but for those still missing few details are known f-section operations are all
29:36but wound down but vera remains she is worried about her agents about the women she sent into
29:47the field she has to find out where they are the work is all-encompassing searching for any trace
30:01of where her agents were transported to in germany and where they could be rescued from once the
30:09allies are victorious in 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 by piecing together what happened there maybe she'll
30:36get some information about her lost agents i visited the torture chamber at avenue foch where kiefer had an
30:45win-lizzer and altered subeth for thecussions of such viu-ex ani rica mounted in division of britain
30:52hans kiefer was the head of the sd in paris during the german occupation
30:57hans 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.
31:29I 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.
31:52Were her agents executed in this group?
31:57She has to track down Kiefer.
32:00He must know where Vera's agents are.
32:04He 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,
32:28Vera 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.
32:42From all the reports of Noor's training, everybody was saying that she wasn't ready.
32:47But Paris needed a wireless operator.
32:50And immediately, she'd put this young woman into the jaws of the Gestapo.
33:01Dear Mrs. Inayat Khan,
33:03I am extremely sorry to have to inform you that we have recently lost touch with your daughter.
33:09Due to the confused state of affairs in France, we were not unduly worried.
33:14But 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 of war.
33:26Just the idea of writing letters to the family, that's heartbreaking.
33:30But Vera's got other issues that she has to worry about.
33:33The British government was never very happy about sending women combatants overseas
33:38because they were not protected by the Geneva Convention.
33:40And that meant the Nazis could do whatever they liked with them.
33:45She also has fear about her own future
33:48because once it is revealed in the public that something has happened to these women,
33:52she's also fearful about the consequences for her.
33:55as the person who sent them out.
34:02I would impress upon you, in the interests of your daughter's safety,
34:06that you make no inquiries with regard to her.
34:11Except 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.
34:47Despite combing through any and all intelligence documents,
34:51Vera's investigation finds no trace of them.
34:56She now lobbies inside SOE.
35:04What Vera wants to do, as the Allies are moving through Germany,
35:07is to give the names of her agents to the Allied troops so that when they liberate camps and prisoners
35:12of war,
35:13they can see if any of her agents are prisoners, they can rescue them.
35:18At the height of F-Section operations, Vera is Buckmaster's right-hand man.
35:23She's right in the centre of all of the major decisions.
35:26But once F-Section is over and Buckmaster is gone,
35:30it becomes incredibly difficult to convince anybody that her plight within SOE is worth pursuing.
35:37Particularly, John Centre, the head of SOE's security division and a commander in the Royal Navy.
35:46Atkins.
35:47Yes, sir.
35:49A memo of yours just came across my desk.
35:53Yes, sir.
35:56A memo suggesting that we give out the names of our agents.
36:05Publish their names for the Red Cross.
36:09The American Army.
36:12The Soviet Army.
36:15Yes, sir.
36:17So that once those forces begin liberating POW camps,
36:21they will have a register of all of our missing agents.
36:26Atkins.
36:28You do understand what we do here.
36:31The work we did during the war.
36:34Yes, sir.
36:35But-
36:36Then you'll also understand the meaning of secret.
36:39As in the term secret agent.
36:43Sir, if I may-
36:44Flight Officer Atkins.
36:47Let me remind you, you are addressing a commander in the Royal Navy.
36:52Sir.
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?
37:13On a register.
37:14For our enemies to see.
37:17Sir, the Germans are spent.
37:20This 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.
37:40He's not interested in the fate of the missing agents.
37:47Stick with the welfare work.
37:54Vera is stymied from trying to find her agents.
37:57All she can do is just pick up on intelligence reports to find out what's happened to these agents.
38:03Because unless she finds out, who will?
38:10In March 1945, Vera receives a report by French investigators searching Fren 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.
38:36This means Nacht und Nebel, or night and fog.
38:40The Nacht und Nebel order was decreed by Hitler that people who have been involved in espionage or resistance
38:49are 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,
39:00but they're supposed to disappear without a trace.
39:03They will disappear as into night and fog.
39:07Time is running out to find her missing women alive.
39:20By April 1945, Germany is in total collapse.
39:27The Foreign Office, now they want to release the SOE agents' names.
39:32Vera is allowed to issue the names of her agents so that people liberating these prisoner of war camps can
39:40find them.
39:42If they are found, there is now a register for their return to Britain.
39:48If 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.
40:31The war in Europe is over.
40:48Amid the celebrations in London, Vera gets news that gives her hope her agents survived.
40:57On the 20th of May 1945, Yvonne Bazden, captured and missing, turns up at Euston Station in London.
41:12Miss Atkins, how did you get here?
41:31Where are we going?
41:34I'm taking you home.
41:36Your father is waiting.
41:37My father.
41:49From Euston Station, Vera takes Yvonne Bazden back to her family home in Brockwood Park in London.
41:56You never even know mine either.
41:59Who is your father?
42:07Ica...
42:18Police, come here.
42:22Peter.
42:36you look um weak let me make you something to eat
43:05what happened after you were captured did you see anyone else other agents
43:18Yvonne I need you to think
43:28after I was caught they sent me east to a to a prison to a place called Saarbrocken
43:43um that there I started seeing some some familiar faces agents I'd been in
43:52training with I saw they've got the hold of Baker Street I didn't talk to them I I
44:07I kept my distance you see I told the Germans after they caught me that I was
44:13just an ordinary French girl caught in the wrong place at the wrong time that was
44:18my cover so I I had to keep my distance I I couldn't let the Nazis know that I was
44:28an
44:31agent was my only hope of getting out alive
44:39her then then then they moved us um all to a camp north of Berlin who went with you
44:54I remember Violette a couple of others from from F section
45:02Violette Zabot
45:10Violette and and the others we were all uh we were all sent to um um Ravensbrück concentration camp
45:17it 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 very few people have heard
45:44about them the idea of there being one just for women I mean it's completely horrifying
45:52one day
45:53one day
45:55Violette
45:55and the others just
46:00just disappeared
46:06I never saw them again
46:13then um the Russians came and liberated us
46:16the 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
46:54thank you
46:57I'll leave you with
46:59you have a lot to catch up on
47:09Vera was incredibly happy to find Yvonne
47:11it might be possible she's able to trace all of her missing agents
47:19but had they survived
47:21and where were they all now
47:23it might be possible she didn't have a lot to escape
47:37and
47:46you know
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