Women Spies In World War II | Secrets of War (WWII Documentary) | Timeline

next on secrets of war they were unlikely heroes who fought behind enemy lines in every theater World War two often using little more than their bravery and cunning female spies on earth secrets supported the resistance and destroyed the morale of the enemy many of them paid the ultimate price women spies are next on secrets of war [Music] August 1944 somewhere in eastern France this woman is about to embark on a clandestine mission behind German lines she's a member of the French Resistance working as an agent for the secret intelligence branch of America's newly formed Office of Strategic Services the OSS her code name is Lillian she hopes to free another valuable woman agent from the Nazi prison camp hidden in her shoulder pads are 70,000 old francs that she will use to bribe the enemy guards a signal corps camera captures the final preparation for her mission an OSS agent checks her forged identity papers and her personal effects are examined to be sure there's no trace of her connection to the Allies several agents had been shot carrying American cigarettes Lillian is not what we've come to expect in a female spy she's no femme fatale plotting to uncover secrets by seducing an ambassador at an embassy party her mission relies on her intelligence cunning and courage and if she fails she risks torture or execution she represents the thousands of women who played a vital role in all phases of espionage during World War two well they often say that espionage is the second oldest profession the oldest profession has often been a way of getting intelligence the men were the people with the secrets and the way to get the secrets of the men was sexual favors in World War two we saw a transition not only were women used for sexual purposes because they clearly were but they were effectively used as couriers and they supported the intelligence services be it from filing positions are serving as chauffeurs to jobs such as radio operators and manning radio receivers the war effort in the clandestine war would not have been as successful without the contributions of women for weeks after setting out Lilian returned with the other female agent the woman had broken ribs courtesy of a Gestapo interrogation and both agents had raw an infected knees from crawling on ice not only had Lilian rescued the other agent but she delivered valuable intelligence about German troop strength and position her mission was a complete success there are references to women spies in virtually every conflict in recorded history typically in the seductress role in the American Civil War Rose o Neill green house the famous Confederate spy who was in Washington DC said God gave me both a mind and a body and I shall use them both in the defense of the Confederacy by World War one women began to take on a broader role in intelligence gathering networks began to developed and were encouraged to develop I British French intelligence in the First World War whereby women form a useful service being an observer there's not going to be anything terribly suspicious about her a farmer's wife sitting outside the farm at the crossroads shelling peas but if she's actually counting the number of guns that she sees going by and she's putting this one pea from one pole into another this is the sort of job that she could fulfill World War one also introduced the name that has become synonymous with seductress spy Mata Hari but like many of history's tales of women ages hers is a story filled with myth and misconception before the war Margaret izella was a dutch housewife unhappy and bored she moved to Paris and became a successful exotic dancer and prostitute with the outbreak of war both the Germans in the French Frutiger is a spy hoping she could gather information through her than any love affairs she made some clumsy attempts at intelligence gathering but today historians agree that any espionage work she carried out was it little significance eventually she was betrayed by the Germans and used his escape code by the French throughout one gets the feeling that she's frightening Lee naive that she's dabbling in intelligence without any knowledge of either the stakes or even what she's doing she's sentenced to death she's executed by a firing squad a fascinating woman in some many ways but certainly not a spy in no way was Mata Hari a real spy world war two brought a new generation of women agents seriously trained for intelligence work but undeniably the tradition of the seductress still continued Amy Elizabeth Thorpe known by her code name Cynthia was born in Minneapolis in nineteen 10 she married a British diplomat Arthur Pak who gave her an entree into aristocratic circles and access to valuable intelligence Cynthia was also a beautiful woman willing to use her charms to carry out her mission [Music] she once said I hope and believe I'm a patriot I was able to make certain men fall in love with me or think they had at any rate and in exchange for my love they gave me information while living in Warsaw Poland in 1938 her marriage was failing and she yearned for adventure as the threat of war approached she was recruited by the British Secret Intelligence Service she seduced the assistant of the Polish foreign minister Joseph Beck and gained an inside view of the workings of the office the intelligence that she was gathering ponen was was fairly low grade it's it's if you have a friend in the ministry who may be and the release can tell you whether the head of that ministry is popular what sort of problems they've got when there's a flap on these are the general sort of things that can be picked up furthermore they may even be a way of if you could find out who's got a drink problem or who's got money problems that is in its own way can be just as important as finding a fair copy of a letter by 1941 she'd moved to the United States and her work came under the office of the British security coordination operating from New York City she was assigned to missions of greater complexity and importance when she was asked to approach the Italian naval attache there was a very specific intent to secure the Italian naval codes this certainly does move her into another area this is not just general chitchat cynthia invited italian admiral alberto lice to her Georgetown apartment and began an affair they would meet at her place two or three times a week she eventually convinced him to turn over the Italian naval codes claiming it was for her still neutral American friends during the upcoming sea battles in the Mediterranean it was noted how easily the British gained the upper hand against the superior numbers of the Italians then in 1942 Cynthia undertook a far more dangerous mission working with the OSS she was assigned to liberate code books from the safe of the Vichy French Embassy in Washington she began a liaison with a French diplomat named Charles Bruce he quickly fell in love with her and she convinced him to become an accomplice in a mission the plan called for the lovers to act as decoys to allow access for an OSS safecracker for many nights they visited the embassy making certain the guards were aware of their illicit affair they could often be found caressing one another on a couch room adjoining the one which held the coats on the evening of the 21st of June 1942 Cynthia and Charles entered the embassy and undressed on the sofa providing cover for the safecracker but then an embassy guard entered the room threatening the operation thinking quickly Cynthia stood naked in the beam of his flashlight shocked and embarrassed the guard apologized and fled soon the safe was opened and the cipher books were rushed to a makeshift photo studio at a nearby hotel by morning the codes were returned to the safe leaving a copy and allied hands after the war Cynthia was asked if she was ashamed of her amorous activities she replied ashamed on the least my superiors told me that the results of my work saved thousands of British and American lives even one would have made it worthwhile wars are not won by respectable methods [Music] the 10th of May 1940 the Battle of France had begun the Nazi blitzkrieg completely overwhelmed the Allied defenses towns were devastated by the German bombs families were sent fleeing from their homes under the Corsa discharging the Nazis in just four days Holland fell by June 14th Hitler's troops were marching into Paris citizens were terrified by the memories of the brutal German occupation during World War one and crushed by the devastating reality that their country had been taken over by the Nazi onslaught more than 90,000 Frenchmen were dead and the nation was left stunned demoralized and leaderless [Music] frost is very proud of his military and this we were ashamed to have to sign their armistice and people were crying in the street it's not specially from the fear but for the shame of being occupied Sapolu for say for us French people for me as an officer for my colleagues this was a lifetime drama to have seen the defeat a whole country's disaster and that's not all millions of people with their horses their bikes their animals their mattresses flowing more and more into southern France was the most terrible thing enemies of the Nazis were executed and citizens were placed on near starvation diets oppressive policies were devised further humiliate and demoralized the people and destroy their will to fight back [Music] well they were doing in every way and that sometimes even to the point of being silly force us in the South of France it's very hot during the summer and the woman like to wear shorts and then they had made a law that the short had to be a certain length through just two inch be to the knee and if it was a quarter of an inch further down or up you were arrested yeah well she really did it the military hierarchy was completely panic-stricken they didn't know what to do they tried to find responsible leaders they tried to see what they wanted to do in this defeat so what are we doing what are we doing can you imagine all these people asking me what are we doing well so we decided to organize secret resistance on the 18th of June Charles de Gaulle in exile in Great Britain stood at a microphone at the BBC studios in London he exhorted his countrymen to join him and work towards their own liberation and never let the flame of French resistance be extinguished the speech and the tone of voice he had that when he gives a speech just incites the the spirit of spirits and I thought I have to do something oh and I heard that Alan Deschamps father was a French officer she was proud of her military heritage she sought out a resistance leader in volunteered she was just 17 years old my dear is it I think you better go back to school and I said well I I wanted to do something I don't want to leave endure the occupation and do what the the enemy order and they say well why don't you apply with the Red Cross and this will be perfect work for you I said it's not what I have in mind I said I want to fight after much convincing Helene was accepted as the first woman in her resistance group but eventually she became one of thousands of courageous women who called on far more than feminine charms to carry out their dangerous missions at the beginning I was just Sakura I was bringing ever love to one town to another and just give to somebody talk to me and give me a name which was not his and I give mine which was not mine and this was a very beginning the underground sometimes what we would do when we know a German group will come by with the cars and so on trucks we would through all kind of nails on the road just sing childish in a way but it took a relieve us little bit of this hatred that that that was building inside secrecy was key to resistance operations Faline could not even tell her mother of her activities and explain her long absences from home mother never knew what I was doing she saw that I was having a wonderful time partying and she never knew what I did until at the end of the war aleem learned the trade well taking on more and more responsibility she carried out reconnaissance missions and led downed Flyers on the escape routes out of France into neutral countries then in 1943 a role changed dramatically she was assigned to serious intelligence gathering she became an undercover agent a spy before the war she knew a man who became a leader in the Malisse the French version of the Gestapo she was told to move from her home in the south of France to the new French capital in Vichy there she was to gain the confidence of her acquaintances and infiltrate the Middle East headquarters she convinced the melis chief to hire her as his personal secretary in his office for the files of the Frenchman who'd been denounced as traitors by their own countrymen he had the files like this and every morning he will come to the the files and he will tell his lieutenant now which letter of the alphabet shall we choose today and then in the other one we see how about the N oh good idea so he will open the drawer and he will take a bunch she doesn't really didn't even look and those people were saying killed or sent to the concentration camp or arrested or whatever so every morning when I came early you know I would go to its door and meet UI without looking I would take some name and put it in my bra and then go to the bathroom was combed and lipstick and then I would tell the papers that would be that many people saved for seven months Celine worked in melis headquarters gaining valuable intelligence about melis raids and resistance networks and stealing official stamps and letterhead for creating forged identity papers eventually the Maloofs grew suspicious of Aleen she was interrogated and beaten but her cover was never blown and she returned to her resistance group in the south by then her sister Jackie suspected Helene was a resistance fighter she convinced Helene to allow her to join the effort two girls took advantage of their age and innocence to gather intelligence me and my sister sometimes we did flirt a little bit but mainly we look so innocent and so young and for instance many a time we would go near an airport and then we will go on the bicycle and then my sister would look like she fell off the bike so the German will call and come and look and she would fall and cry and now I would seek a new helper meanwhile I was counting the planes you know the fall of 1943 Helene and Jackie were repelled by the rivalries between factions within the resistance so they volunteered to work with OSS in support of the Allied invasion the OSS was sending agents to France to help train and equip the resistance against the Germans Alena and Jacquie operated behind the lines tracking the movements of troops and equipment than reporting their findings to a radio operator Helene had now been in the resistance for four long years she'd become a hardened agent you know when you were in the underground an agent had to give up everything you couldn't keep friends you had no friends you had to forget your family you had to forget the normal life and you had no life at all what had begun is almost a game that turned into a grim struggle often with deadly consequences she'd seen numerous associates tortured and executed by the Nazis she and Jackie were almost executed by another resistance group would mistaken them for German agents and then the terrible news that Jackie's fiancee an OSS leader named Petit Jean had been killed by a sniper bullet through the heart but like any soldiers Jackie and Helene had to pursue their mission just one day after receiving word at petit Jean's death aleem Jackie and a driver were rushing by car to deliver intelligence to the Americans when they too were caught in sniper fire and then my sister see I'm hit you know he was so sudden and I saw I didn't even realize she was really hurt and I put my hand on her head you know talk to her like a child and say don't worry darling I said pretty soon we'll come to a village and then we can take care of you don't worry and then the driver stopped the car and he said well let's stop here and get help and so I turned around and the old Jackie it did we can take care of you and turn around then her eyes were open and God knows she was dead like her fiance Jackie was shot through the heart hélène could only take the time to get a bedsheet from a nearby farm house to bury her sister my sister Annette endo and I dig a hole with a driver and we bury her there and the chief of the and the ground give a little speech you know he said Jacqueline young girl from France will give you your life you give you grace you give your love to your country sake and I went online to the other issue their orders came directly from Winston Churchill set Europe ablaze these were agents of the Special Operations Executive the SOE a secret organization established in the summer of 1940 to aid resistance groups in sabotage terrorism and subversion Churchill wanted commando raids he wanted terrorist saboteurs he wanted no German to ever walk down the street without looking over his shoulder to see if there is a terrorist a saboteur behind it he wanted no German to drive across a bridge without fearing his life would end as a bomb went off under the bridge so SOE was organized to turn German occupied Europe in laflamme's from their headquarters at 64 Baker Street in London the SOE recruited agents who were to be sent into occupied territory posing as natives but in 1940 all the military services were competing for manpower the SOE realized women might well have the qualifications for the mission frequently women and especially women from affluent families had travelled extensively in the period between World War 1 and World War 2 so they were more common to speak foreign languages and especially those languages that were desirable if they were now occupied countries but they had traveled abroad and they were comfortable and understood the cultures and the mannerisms and how to travel soé certainly broke new ground it was the first government body to arm women and send women into theatres of operations now this isn't to say that the Secret Intelligence Service mi6 hadn't been doing that on other occasions but I think it could be argued that the organization that did it for the first time and admitted it was SOE women were recruited denon trained in the same rigorous programs as men women agents were given a preliminary training to assess their capabilities being watched all the time to see how they reacted what the character was really like if they passed that first stage they could be sent up to Scotland where they would be given a general toughening up in process then if they passed that they would be brought back down to the real agent training school where they would be given what we now call tradecraft training they will be told about the sort of German security services they would be up against how to form networks how to avoid being followed how to follow somebody without being called herself and then if they passed that they may then get sent on to a wireless training school where they will be taught how to work one of the suitcase radio sets one of the SOE the depth radio operators or Zevon or more she'd volunteered for the Women's Auxiliary Air Force after her husband was killed by a German bomb during the London Blitz after placing her young daughter in a convent for safety Yvonne began her service she was fluent in French and was soon recruited by the SOS French unit the F section I was willing to do whatever I could this was something I think my husband would have liked to do and as he was no longer there to do it I thought it was time for me to do it kore mo remembers her training to be the same as the men's almost the first training they tried us out to see what kind of job we might respond to best I was rather annoyed to discover men only were used as group leaders there was British discrimination there but women and men were taken in as radio operators as couriers and men only for sabotage well that I was quite glad on hovitos led with the radio in August of 1943 she parachuted into France and joined the wheelwright resistance circuit her skills at operating the radio or playing the piano as it was called were legendary she was not permitted near the location where an explosive was being sent for fear of injury to her prized hands and very nervous but patient it's a funny mixture really and you need that for read your work you need the patience to do the coding and the decoding you need the resourcefulness of nervousness to be able to decide whether to go on if you think somebody's listening in or to cut off and ask for another scare and that sort of thing and I must admit two butterflies floating in mine me all the time you had to have your eyes in the back of your head as well as in front radio communications were essential to the success of the secret operations resistance groups relied on coordination with Great Britain for delivery of their weapons and supplies however typically F section radio operators only lasted about six weeks before being caught for the Nazis so the agents soon learned the tricks to survival the idea was that to move around all the time so that you could never been spotted in any particular place that's one thing the other one was it was more secure to be in the city than in the country because the idea would be an apartment building where if you were on the air for too long you could be spotted to the building but not necessary to the apartment Evon never remained in one place for more than three days and she found courageous support from the local population those who offered me a room and often made food always knew that I come from England I was English and had my sect they were asked before would you take a radio operator because that more than double the danger problem and I'll give it to these people not once was I refused accommodation she also became a master of disguise sometimes receiving invaluable advice from the French Patriots one day she was posing as a farmer's wife looking after cows the farmer's wife had told me don't wear a watch no woman who looks after cows would be able to afford a watch remarkably even carmo remained undercover in France for 13 months sending more than 400 messages she was awarded the prestigious MBE a member of the British Empire for her courage when World War two began America had no central intelligence gathering organization so in 1942 President Roosevelt established the Office of Strategic Services the OSS by the war's end more than 21,000 people worked for the agency over 4,000 of them were women although few female agents were actually sent behind enemy lines General William Donovan the first director of the OSS recognized their vital role he said there were the ones at home who patiently filed secret reports encoded and decoded messages answered telephones mail checks and kept records there were some with regional and linguistic knowledge of great value in research and whose special skills were employed in exact and painstaking work such as map making and cryptography Donovan praised these women as the invisible apron-strings of the organization one of the few assigned to the field was Barbara Lars Podolski she'd fled from Czechoslovakia and had written a book about Czech airman who gave their lives for the Allies in the Battle of Britain their bravery inspired her to join the u.s. army volunteer for field work the fate of all these Airmen who perished got under my skin and I felt that I could be useful with my knowledge of foreign languages in the US Army rather than would say pushing papers in Washington throughout the war permission in the OSS was known as morale operations to upset the psychology of the enemy soldiers from all our operations is supposed to undermine the morale of the frontline soldier and when the morale of the frontline soldier is upset he's not going to perform too well and the whole frontline is going to crumble Barbara's top secret group was skilled in languages and forgery their primary weapon was to covertly distribute subversive information behind enemy lines material known as black propaganda [Music] white propaganda is clearly something that's the enemy in this case American British French do and send across the lines black propaganda however pretends that it comes from inside Germany inside Italy inside Japan and it has to be crude enough to be believable there were no rules in black propaganda their materials took many forms Barbara's group once created a fictitious Lonely Hearts Club leaflet that convinced German soldiers that back at home all women had now volunteered to sleep with any soldier who came home on leave the Lonely Hearts Club was invented by us and we made a leaflet stressing that every body is part of it you'll wife your daughter your mother your sister well when I found lying soldier learns that his wife is sleeping around with just about everybody he's not going to be very happy about it and his mother is going to be undermined [Music] the propaganda leaflet was so authentic that the Washington Post reported the club as actual activity being carried out in Germany Barbara's unit also included noted cartoonist Saul Steinberg together she and Steinberg created some other unusual propaganda materials there was also a leaflet that I cut in linoleum which was actually a toilet paper the somewhat indecent but the drawing was made by Steinberg and showed a likeness of Hitler and underneath service advice used this side [Music] Barbara was stationed in Rome but she would often move to the front to interrogate surrendering soldiers the moment they crossed the lines she would probe for any new tidbits of information that could be used by her team we had a bull session practically in the evening about what could be done what should be done what might work what is possible you see the success of mother operation was also the understanding of he found at the headquarters none of our ideas was ever rejected be it who cares the headquarters always said go ahead try it one of the unit's most celebrated missions was known as Operation sauerkraut's it was a plan created immediately after learning of the unsuccessful bomb attack on Hitler in 1944 they saw a golden opportunity to create havoc behind the lines that night Podolski was dispatched to a prw camp to find german soldiers she could turn in despise for their operation I was looking for dissidents people who were displeased with the regime in Germany people who had reason to be unhappy about the wall and these were for instance a German who lived in Yugoslavia was forced into the German army and I made it clear to them that they could help by convincing the frontline soldier that there is the revolution way back in Germany that people are fed up with the Nazi regime sixteen operatives were chosen they were given new identities credentials and uniforms and were trained to maintain their cover we had to change their identities and drill into them new names so that if they were awakened in the middle of the night and asked the maid name of their mother they would need a different name the agents then moved behind the lines distributing my leaflets and fake newspapers they would leave it at places where soldiers would gather it's a cafe and bus stop they would pin it to the tire over part of truck and so on and our agents reported that they have seen several soldiers reading it and then one coming back and pocketing it to show the orders so it reached the target despite running the risk of being shot his spies none of the agents defected back to the German side besides carrying out their mission they also brought back valuable intelligence information these successful agents were rewarded after their mission we wanted them to feel relaxed and be happy and young men when they have done a good job all they want is what we used to call in the Army horizontal engineering so there was an apartment in Rome where these young men could invite female species and I would be sitting in a jeep down on the street waiting until the operation was over and then when the female species would come down I would pay them and sometimes I would fume and say how on earth is this is our disbursing officer going to explain this expenditure to the American taxpayer Barbara was the only woman on her morale operations team the OSS wasn't really set up to have women in its although she was only a private she was assigned a driver who was a captain but often in her duties Barbara had to assert herself with the same authority as her male counterparts sometimes though people are interrogated over center to the fact that I was a woman I once even misbehaved and hit one prisoner because he was only he vilified America he called President Roosevelt names and I couldn't restrain myself being half Slavic I hit him real hard I gave him a knuckle sandwich one of Barbara's final operations proved to be one of the most successful she directed her black propaganda at the numerous Czechoslovakian soldiers who were forced to serve as working troops for the Nazis the leaflets started with recollection of Hitler's statement that not a single check reserved in the German army and yet you are serving the Germans as their lackeys and it is still time this role of that uniform of the German armies throw away the identity which was imposed upon you and come across the lines come and join your brothers who are fighting on the right side due to Barbara's efforts more than 600 Czech soldiers surrendered to the Allies in 1944 Barbara Lars Borowski received the Bronze Star for her mission [Music] she was perhaps the most effective of all women agents in World War two she was an operative for both the SOE in the OSS who was decorated for heroism by both Great Britain and the United States her name was Virginia Hall but to the French underground she was known as let down he bought a limping lady Virginia Hall had only one leg some agents are made and some are born one certainly sees in the genu Hall's career that she had a natural aptitude for the further job [Music] Virginia was born to a wealthy Baltimore family in nineteen six she attended Radcliffe and Barnard College and showed a flair for languages becoming fluent in French German and Italian she craved the excitement of living abroad and worked for the foreign service in Poland Estonia Italy and Turkey while stationed in Turkey she shot herself in a hunting accident which led to the amputation of the leg below the knee she nicknamed her fall slim Cuthbert when the war broke out Virginia volunteered for the French ambulance service but after the fall of France she moved to London where she was recruited by the SOE then in the summer of 1941 she became one of the first female agents sent into France her cover was as a foreign correspondent in the New York Post writing articles about life in Vichy France meanwhile she set up SOE operations from early on apartment her work was incredibly effective and widespread it's often said to be very very unwise for people engaged in secret activities to spread the net so too far so if your intelligence gathering you gather intelligence Virginia Hall seemed to have been involved in just about everything going on in eastern France during that period helping invaders working an agent to escape lines sending couriers receiving in Austin and homeless agents when brianstone house first parachuted into France things were going badly he was having difficulty establishing his networks and he sought out Virginia hall for assistance I knew of her existence as told about her from London we were said not to go near her unless it's a matter of life and death because she was being watched by French police and I presume the Germans as well but things got so complicated and Neal that my Korea and I Christian and we went to see him she was very helpful in getting him started and organized by the winter of 1941 the Nazis were unto Virginia and about to arrest her but she escaped on foot over the Pyrenees Mountains into Spain that would be a remarkable achievement for anyone but this woman had a wooden leg understandably by the time she got on the other side of the Pyrenees the stump was bloodied it was quite a mess so not only did she have the business of escaping it must have been a painful escape at one point she radioed back to England and explained the painful condition of her lake she says Cuthbert is giving me trouble but I can cope and the rather unsuspecting individual on the other end was going oh my goodness she's having problems with a Cuthbert so he cabled back if Cuthbert is giving you trouble have him eliminated Virginia was awarded the MBE the member of the British Empire for her courageous efforts but that wasn't enough for her she then trained as a radio operator and planned to return to France she transferred to America's OSS so if she was killed her mother would receive death benefits then in November 1943 disguised as an elderly milkmaid she returned [Music] Virginia was hunted by the Gestapo he circulated a wanted poster with the warning the woman with a limp is one of the most valuable allied agents in France we must find and destroy her but her elaborate disguise fooled the Germans to hide her disability as it were she learned to walk with a certain gate or swagger that underneath her French milkmaid garb you didn't really know that this was a woman that had a wooden leg in support of d-day Virginia radioed in valuable intelligence coordinated airdrops she also trained and led Maquis resistance groups in guerrilla warfare and sabotage after the war Virginia Hall was awarded America's Distinguished Service Cross in a simple ceremony in William Donovan's office she refused an elaborate presidential ceremony saying she was still operational and anxious to get busy Virginia Hall went on to work for the CIA until her mandatory retirement in 1966 [Music] Virginia Hall Olinda shop Avon Carmel and Barbara Podolski were the lucky ones they survived the consequences for women agents when caught would be the same as those male agents they were subjected many occasions dreadful torture they were held in solitary confinement starved beaten and then for those that were not executed immediately they could be sent and many were sent to the concentration camps of Germany the costs of valor and their bravery volunteering were these sort of service it could be quite quite dreadful 48 SOE women were sent into France 12 of them were captured and executed brianstone house was also captured he was convicted of spying he endured four years in Nazi concentration camps he believes the Germans might even have been harder on the captured women for VAR girls were executed tonight's final four of our girls were executed in data and for VAR girls were executed in Marvin's book now this thing has always puzzled me is why was there executed why wasn't I executed and Bob and Tom and because we lived that fear that every day there would it be the order to Berlin to execute that but it never came [Music] despite the suffering they all witnessed the women agents believe their efforts were worth it but even today most find it hard to forget the painful memories of that service my daughter only yesterday again was telling me mother what are you thinking sometime I'm silent you know or I look sad or details come to my mind you can forget that you know this is forever [Music]

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Published: Mon Nov 18 2019