In the early [hours] of june the 17th 1943 an Raf plane secretly landed in nazi-occupied France
on board with a princess from a titled Indian family
She was also a British spy
Young beautiful and codenamed [Madeleine]
Her assignment was described as the principal and most dangerous post in France
Her skills as a wireless operator would provide a vital link between Paris and London
In a city controlled by the nazis her life expectancy was just six weeks
Noor inayat. Khan was an unlikely secret agent in training their instructors described her as clumsy
easily Flustered and
Pretty scared of weapons, but her conspicuous courage in Extreme danger would earn her the George cross
One of only three awarded to women in World War two
Tonight with knorr family time watch tells the inspirational and tragic story of a forgotten hero
the princess spy
[two] [Bavarian] [alps] in Southwest [Germany]
For centuries the mountains and dramatic landscapes have attracted visitors to the region
One of those drawn here is David Harper who [twenty] years ago started a company running historical tours
Because within this adil ik [alpine] setting there are echoes of one of the darker periods of German history
Nazi Leader adolf Hitler chose this spot close to the austrian border for his mountain retreat
It was called the bear. [God]
The Bear [golf] where hitler lived was more than just a holiday home it was more than the second seat of power
After Berlin it was in fact a place where very devastating decisions have made military
Political decisions in fact one could say that the spark that ignited world war two
stems from that very spot
But [sixty] [years] after the end of the second world war it's a personal family war story which has begun to preoccupy David
Claire Harper is David's mother
She is also the sister [of] noor inayat. Khan a British secret agent who disappeared during the second world war for
[quite] a Few years. My mother's been writing her memoirs
Lakish has been writing a lot about Nora
It's quite painful for my mother she probably never got over that loss and [that] sense of Tragedy I
found myself
typing down what she's written by hand and she dictates to me and
I'm finding out [a] lot a lot about her past and and her family that I never knew about [coma]
Yes, remember
quote when the war's over
Probably when I was five [or] six that my mother started talking to me about Nora I knew that she had been very
Heroic and had done something
Wonderful for her country or for peace in the world
But I didn't know that much [about] it except that the family
was
Still grieving for Nora when I was a child
there's always a sense of
of heaviness and and an
great Loss
Which I didn't really understand that that well when I was a child
Claire's difficulty in coming to terms with nas tragic loss has encouraged David to embark on a personal journey
Retracing the steps of the aunt he never knew
The extraordinary details of [norse] time as a British agent
Can begin to be unraveled here at the National [archives] in West London her file?
Which has been shrouded in secrecy for over 60 years?
Has recently been [declassified] by the government and released into the public domain?
It revealed that noor inayat
Khan was recruited into the top secret and highly sensitive world of the special operations executive
or soe
Its headquarters were here in Baker Street in Central London
Its objective to wage a secret war behind enemy lines in nazi-occupied Europe
Now the head colonel Maurice buckmaster headed the [French] or f [section] f
Sections agents were intended to do two main jobs
one of them Sabotage
Secondly they were to help to [arm]
Underground movements if ever the French were capable of producing a secret army of gorillas to operate behind the German lines
children [Generation] take place
you can't have
objects without arms and
Great importance of soe on the continent listen. It was a channel through which arms were provided
What f section needed was spies?
Men who could take on false identities as french [citizens] working undercover in occupied France?
It would be one of the most dangerous missions in the second world war
but with an acute [shortage] of suitably qualified men in april 1942
Churchill took the controversial decision to recruit women to serve behind enemy lines
One of them would be no
The very idea of sending women into possibly the most dangerous form of Armed combat you could imagine which is
working without any sort of protection or
uniform behind enemy lines whereby a [fewer] courts you'd have no protection of any international law and
[you'd] almost certainly be shot of course is unusual
But of the 37 women agents that soe sent to france nor must have been the most unlikely spy
Descended from Indian royalty the overriding influence throughout her life with the teachings of a pacifist [sufi] father
Nor was born in the shadows of the Kremlin in January
1914 where her father a suFI mystic was teaching at the imperial court
Her mother or a ray baker was an American who had fled her own family to marry noor's father
In the early 1920s the inayat cons moved to [surin] a western suburb of Paris to this house
Provided for them by a sufI benefactor
The name of the house is [Faisal] [Montville]. Which means blessed house or house blessings my grandfather gave it that name
like nor a nephew dated [harper] Spent much of his childhood in this house immersed in the teachings of Idealism and
self-Sacrifice
This was known as the oriental room was where Nora's father my grandfather received his?
pupils his followers
Looks very much the same it did in the time of noir when she was a child here
Harsh reality was to intrude on Nauzad Dilek childhood when ill health led to her father's death when she was just 13
after the passing of our [father]
Another was in such a desperate
condition
That neurones. I took on her
To take care [of] the other children [she] [became] the second mother
she handled the the household and health with the education of their brothers and sisters and
Men made sure that there
She was the polish clothes were clean and so on
No was academically gifted
Writing Poetry and stories and she would later study child pSychology at the Sorbonne
But knows real passion was music
the harp being her favorite instrument
The family would give concerts [they] would have to then put on their engine clothes in the evening and perform
For my grandfather's guests
Nor also wrote [the] children her stories appearing in the Paris newspapers and on French radio
By the age of 25 her book 20, Jataka tales have been published in France Britain and America
But North pursuit of artistic endeavors, and ailment was about to be brought to an abrupt halt
Is the answer comes back I [sneaked] up on may the 10th 1940?
German Troops invaded the low countries and Swept into france
Like millions of others across Europe North Life was to change irrevocably
Noon look anybody then staff employed [supportin] in Perry fang
on June the 14th the Invading German Army reached Paris
Because [noor] and her family had british passports. They were forced to leave their beloved faisal manzil the house of blessings
along with thousands of other refugees the family struggled West Via [tor]
Eventually reaching border where they hope to catch a ship to England
Here Dyers knorr youngest brother had decided to stay in France with his wife and young family
We didn't feel that death as the last
meeting
As legend might have been unbearable
noor and the rest of the family managed to get onboard [the] last boat of British refugees and
On the morning of june the 22nd their ship docked at the Cornish port of Falmouth
Having reached the relative safety of England nor and her younger brother reliant
Decided to join the British fight against the Nazis
One thing was very clear their philosophical background
Did not allow them to kill anyone, so if they're going [to] help in the war
They could do anything even if it was dangerous so long as they wouldn't have to fire a gun
the Liar's Joined the Royal Navy
Working on Minesweepers while noor joined the women's auxiliary air force the [woth] to be trained as a wireless operator
Choosing the name Norah baker to better fit into her new British life
Two years later in 1942 noor now a leading aircrafts woman was approached and invited for an interview
The invitation came from the inoculum named inter services research Bureau in fact it came from this building in Baker Street
the headquarters of soe
Nor did they got car got into a so he threw the fact that she had melted down on joining?
the waves
But she had perfect French
And [sun] clark in the a ministry going from the record spotted
Perfect French and Report to the intention France just in case they were interested [and] she was interviewed in London
By [soman] Jepsen's novelist, and he on one look at her knew she would do
he told me once that as a rule he
had made up his mind in the first quarter of a minute whether mackenzie was going to be any good or not and
very seldom made mistake
The application Form said simply agent in the field after training
nor had reservations
But she wrote back. I shall therefore accept gratefully the privilege of carrying out the work you suggested. I feel as though
I may be of some use so long as the work is purely operational
She knew it was a dangerous job before she took it on right [their] initial interview
Jeomsun [said] [what] you realized if you take this on you're putting your life on the line. [I'm] putting your life on the line
It's about evens when you come back
nevertheless she first death
Because she thought it was worth [doing]
On the 29th of February 1943 [noir] embarked on three months of intensive training as a secret agent
She had taught how to survive in enemy territory
[how] to use weapons and explosives and how to resist interrogation and torture
The morse code skills that she had learnt in the air force made her the ideal candidate for a wireless operator
She would send encrypted messages back to London. This was the most dangerous role in soe
With a life expectancy of just six weeks
nords file at the National Archives revealed that her training did not go well [although] some reports were positive [a]
Person for whom I have [the] greatest admiration
extremely conscientious
others were truly Damning one report describes her as
emotional and having a vivid imagination
another of her being highly temperamental
She was viewed as clumsy and that she was pretty scared of weapons
There was a report for trading section to describe dogs not overburdened with brains
In the Margin of which multi-spoke master the head of [chef's] section penciled a fair respect. We don't want some overburdened with brags
However, there was a more damning assessment further down
She has an unstable and temperamental personality and it's very doubtful whether she's really suited to work in the field
Despite these reservations noir was told to prepare for a mission to France
she more or less finished her course had certainly heard her morse had finished as I remember it and
She was ready to go and there wasn't anybody else
What do you do?
She was a fully trained Wireless operator
Soe was desperately short of fully trained wires or about Richard couldn't work?
so the case for sending her
overweight the case against letting
The final steps in turning noir into a spy were put into place
She was given a false identity
Jean-Marie renier her wireless call sign [was] to be nurse her [Codename], [Madeleine]
preparations were underway
[Norwood] be dropped behind enemy lines of the next full moon period When visibility was as its greatest
It was the program of the full moon [that] you worked for for sending your aircraft for sending personnel
and then it had to have a message which would be
[broadcasting] the BBC the night before to say and when the operation was to take place
Bush house in Central London it was from here that the BBC's French service
broadcast a coded message a message
Personnel to alert local agents that [madellaine] was arriving [the] following evening [Ec] long
Where tina [fey] we can build an apology [own] vocal girl without a lake [L] commit, [especially]?
Legate I again as a final gesture
Nor was promoted to the rank of assistant section officer in the worth for which she would be paid
three hundred and fifty pounds a year
You will not be required to wear a uniform and no grant in respect of outfit allowance will be payable to you
these bland words
hid the reality that working undercover in Civilian clothes affords no protection under the geneva convention and that
[if] she were cause she would most likely be shot do I feel a right to Centre
How can I tell I think [God] it's never my responsibility
Just before she left nor wrote to her brother, but gave no details about her new role
brother dearest
Nothing could have infuriated me more than to leave without seeing you
Maybe we will meet someday
somewhere somehow
Duty can pull us apart to the ends of the world, but it can only strengthen ties and brother is dearer than ever
We'll carry on old boy. Wish me luck
on the night of the 16th of June
1943
along with fellow Soe Agent diana Rowden
Noor was secretly flown from [tangmere] in Sussex to an isolated field in the noir Valley
She was already in extreme danger
She arrived [eventually] I lysander
not knowing at the man who organized the [Lisandro] operations for the double agent [the]
[double] agents who measure aircraft with on Read Derek or
His actions would have devastating effects on the soe network in France
He didn't betray [an] [R]
Didn't take any particular steps to [make] [sure] [that] she was [alright]
She used such [senses]. She had to make sure that she wasn't cracked and got away
apparently untraced Paris
three years after she had fled the city
Nor found herself back in a paris now dominated by [the] German military
Commissions to join a secret soe network called
Hospital where she would work as a wireless operator from Locally recruited Agents, Omri Gary?
within days of her arrival
Nor secretly began to transmit vital information back [to] London
To Avoid Detection she was constantly on the move
Hidden in her suitcase her radio went everywhere with her
63 years later
David Harper has come to the imperial war museum
He hopes to find out more about his arms, and what life was like for her as a spy in occupied France
Right well first of all we are firm
It's the type of radio that earth nor would have been using [with] [a] [curtain] be marked soon
Trust [Murphy] David it air is just grab it round the edge
Just lifted see check awake since it's not a full light. It's
Amazing [that] my aunt is very
Frail Rather small person could actually [handle] [one] of these things I can barely lift it up
That's very heavy yeah, yeah much design. It's like 33 [pounds]
if not, you know if you're walking [ran] with it exactly quite careful [to] [get] the impression [it's] not and
anything over
[this] is one [of] the least kills, so I kill which
NSA agents were quickly [out] when they went [into] [our] europe
normally would have been concealed in some for the personal possession and
internal lipstick Perhaps in an in woman's case right
All right
This is you might be surprised to hear as far as we know knowing outcomes actual pistol
[sole] or would have trained with this on the yes indeed. She [was] actually
Frightened of weapons she didn't like the idea of firing one
He came from the idea that she didn't want to kill anyone
I find it almost unreal to be handling the same distilled it
My aunt had in her possession that she probably also
handled with care
Because of Noah's pacifist beliefs she left the pistol behind in London
In Paris within a week of [noir] arriving
The double agent Derek [caused] treachery had, led the gestapo to arrest almost the entire
Prosper Network
Noir was now one of the last wireless operators still operating in the city
David Harper has come to parents to retrace the [footsteps] of his aunt
Streets which were then filled with German soldiers and more worryingly for know the much-feared gestapo
today there are few witnesses living who experience the dangers of working in occupied Paris as
noted in that summer of 1943
the David has tracked down to F section agents survivors of the secret war in France I
was a saboteur
Senator trying to grow up factories and power station and bridges and a lot
Bob [Malou] [Ba] was also recruited into soe and parachuted into France
this club
Bob was to do his training at the same time as fellow [agents] Gaston Colin
Who like noor was recruited as a wireless operator and was also dropped into the prosper network our main activity?
was to
get the
ammunition and arms
Into the into the region how long did this go on for?
about two and a half months my vision and
And I was nevertheless wireless operating around Paris and the only messages
I was sending of the lesser part was to inform
Lun London the people that were arrested and at that time did you meet my aunt Nora? Yes?
I miss her once you came to see me where I was living close to the plasti table
And she angel so I miss her and I kind of tell you what we spoke about
It's too far [away], and I never saw her again because it she appeared to be frightened and worried
Nameless little so obviously you knew was a terribly dangerous mission that you were on
Do you know how many actually survived that of f section of the soe [mall] ab section?
We were roughly between 300 and 400 I should say closer to 304 founded with India
casualties, we're about [what] between 33 to 40 percent Rob
Bob Had an extraordinary escape
He was shot three times and left for Dead
He was forced to swim in Icy canal to safety before soe airlifted him back to England
[for] Gaston like All radio operators. His time was running out
Noventa my [wireless] [Ed] was captured was taken by the Doorman tagore. So hence I was no more in contact with
with the head officers at all
Gaston will eventually get back to Britain Via escape routes across the pyrenees
Leaving norm as f sections only wireless operator left in Paris
With the Germans closing in on the last few members of the Prosper Network
Noir was now in acute danger
Head of Sos French section Morris McMaster offered nor a route to safety [on] one of their flights out of france
realizing her significance
nor refused a
lot of people would say
That she [should] have been brought home because whatever she may or may not have wanted to do
The fact that was that she was a very dangerous person to fall into the gestapo hands because she knew a lot
[buckmaster] left her out there because she was the only radio link with London after the collapse of the circuit
He needed nor she became very very important to him
general Sir Colin gubbins the head of soe
Said that North position had become the principal and most dangerous post in France
But baker street weren't the only people listening for [nors] transmissions
With the [arrests] of the other soe wireless operators the germans could concentrate all their efforts on the one wireless still
Transmitting from Paris. I have no doubt that
the Gestapo listing service
Picked her up from the moment. She's got to transmit
And that they were aware that there was an operator
Containment [Lin] who was about?
Somewhere in the bed [his] neighbor
She then ran around Paris while the Gestapo was sweeping on every other single member of the circuit for a good two months
without being caught
it would appear that she survived through a mixture of luck and
sheer cunning and quick-wittedness
There are comments from the [gestapo] later saying that they were on her trail, but they could never quite catch up with her
David is eager to meet an agent who like nor knew what it was like to work as a wireless operator
under the eyes of the Gestapo
Mr.. [Jagannath] David Harper
Thank you [very] much
[Omri] Diakonos was dropped into German occupied France in the months leading up to D
Deck this one is the identity card with which I was dropped in France
By the one they gave me and I had to learn everything about that fellow I had to learn
Where he lived?
Or what was the name [of] his father of his mother and I had to learn all his life, you know
Audrey was under no illusion as to the danger of the job. He was to take on
All our friends [their] [honours] used to tell us
Compete wireless operator don't be a wireless operator because it's the most dangerous thing [you] can you can have
When you're young like this you see things he did quite different
It's quite a different way and for us it was we had to do that
And it was very interesting to call messages to someone to England we were only
Captured by that left left side of the thing we went we went
yes, sometimes when you were doing nothing you could be scared that when you were in action you didn't think you just took the
Pleasure of doing your job as it should be done
Despite the danger nor to seem to be taking pleasure in the work. She was doing in a letter to Baker Street. She rose
I'm awfully happy it's grand working for you the best moments. I have had yet
She says she's having the greatest time of her life. She says thank you very much for sending me
Almost girlish in their sort of thrill it's as if she's exhilarated
[pat] for the first time in her life
She was really exploring her own potential. She was completely free. She was she who was making the decisions
nobody else could sort of order her around and
She wasn't felt she was really doing something towards the war effort
Nors letters were carried home [by] the aircraft taking agents out of france
But baker street weren't the only people reading the letters
The double agent on read Eric or was first passing them to the gestapo in Paris
This was how did [it] [go] worked? He showed the Germans the mail that he was carrying
which they photographed
Included in the mail were personal letters to North family. They still had no idea where she was or what she was doing
Mother such a joy to be [able] to post a letter to you [I]
Really miss [you] terribly mother I talk to you so often in my sleep
Still next time you see me. I will be beautifully well and shall we celebrate
we're at the
Address it's right here for Tavern Street. This was the family home
This is where Nora's mother lived and children often visited her here
Looking at these three letters
Written by [Nora] I recognized her handwriting sent to my grandmother
They have London stamps on but all the dates correspond to the time when Nora was already
In France my grandmother had no idea that in [fact] her daughter was in German occupied territory
And what's really very unsettling is the fact that these letters were more than likely read first?
by the Sd by the German intelligence
Section there before they even reached her own mother
[no] had now been transmitting for more than 12 weeks
Over twice the six week life expectancy of a wireless operator
against all odds
She continued to evade the Gestapo on borrowed time
the bitter Irony of her eventual capture
Was that it was an act of betrayal rather than the diligence of the German forces so [farsighted] make out?
The sister of one of the people with whom she was working tried to get into the circuit and was turned down and was just
And went by Interprete stopper because it was a reward
[Renee] Gary was paid a hundred thousand french francs the gestapo would have paid considerably more for this information
Norma sold to the Gestapo
For a tenth of what the gestapo Sachem Isthmus
Is that it?
This is where she was arrested. This is where she was arrested patiently on the first law. I think up there. Yes
Yes, so this is the last place that she lived in freedom into them and then after that's one captured. That's it
Nor was reported that have put up such a fight
That the man arresting her threatened to shoot her I can't believe we're so close to the gestapo headquarters here
84 Avenue Farsh is only 200 meters away from where noor was captured in
1943 it was the headquarters of the gestapo in Paris, she
[was] taken round to the [avert] [it] for
She said unto him a bath
There Jeff [qin] is going to interrupt [a] lady in a bath. She was out of the bathroom window in a moment
But was spotted and was talk [begging]
Before [she] either threw herself Tom's gun [and] killed herself, or got a wax
So this is where all these are captured
I saw agents were kept in custody for some time and then sent to camp to Germany later on I'm being
interrogated here by Hands [Kiefer] by Goods in charge of the of the
wireless set operations
So this is where my [honor] was kept prisoner on the top floor and make this the servants rooms where use?
Ourselves John Star there are
[Normal] are subtle
Eligible Robert Renoir aren't [them] and so on so the Gestapo chief at Avenue for sure is a very plausible
Character he was called the hands [Keeper] who knew how to win round the mail agents
he knew how to didn't talk to him about Eaton and the guards and
Churchill and the Royal family and he won their confidence and he put them at their ease and then he got them to talk
Nor never fell for that. She the first time she saw this man
She said I don't trust you and I [think] she said very little else to him ever
Back in London Soe were aware of a problem as nor had stopped transmitting
Early in October they were to receive a message saying that [madellaine] was in hospital
Code for the fact that noor was in danger or had been captured
But because the news came from a locally recruited agent called Sonya Ocean s key who Baker street did not know
[buckmaster] chose to ignore it
two weeks later
Soe once again began to pick up signals [from] knorr transmitter
The message indicated that she was having problems
But observers back at the receiving station noted something odd on
This signal [knorr] all-important bluff security check was omitted
again
[buckmaster] chose to ignore the warning
In fact it was the germans who were using knorr captured radio to send fake messages to soe in the hope that
London would Impart important information in their replies
the Germans had a name for it the function feel or the radio game and
[buckmaster] and soe were completely taken in but must convinced himself
But not only is north free and operating safely
But that she has reconstituted the entire prosper networks of course it was [kiefer] that had
Reconstituted the prosper network he had captured everyone or killed them off and put his own men in and [that] master was dealing with
Kieffer's Gestapo officers
but in captivity
Nor who had fared so badly in her training
Was now exasperatingly captors and revealing nothing under interrogation
in [Aswan] [statement] after the war hands [kefir] head of the Gestapo said
Madeleine after her capture showed great courage and we got no information [whatsoever] out of her I
Am sure [that] in this also. She lied to us, we could never rely on anything she said
Nor had made a second escape attempt from her cells here on to the roof of a t4 avenue far
Keefer had had enough and in the end of november
1943 after threatening to shoot her he ordered her removal from Paris
It would be a further six months before soe would finally accept that Madeline had been captured
Nor had completely disappeared her family had no idea of what had happened to her
May
1945 as a country celebrated the end of the second world war
The fate of norm and Eleven other missing women agents appeared to have been forgotten
Nobody in London appeared to be particularly interested in what had happened to them
They'd gone missing assumed Dead
And that was really the end of the story as far as all the authorities in London were concerned
except for Vera
Vera adkins who was Buck Masters Assistant in F section and
Responsible for the women agents who soe had sent to france
Made it her personal mission to discover what has happened to noor and the others
our initial investigation revealed that four women had been taken from Avenue [fache] by train to a german prison in the town of
Karlsruhe
Could nor be one of them
there then followed the trail from Karlsruhe prison of these women to find out where they went next and
She established that they mean taken to a concentration camp called Nuts [pilot]
Of the four women known to be taken to nats pilot three of them were easily identified
Diana [Rowden] had been flown into france on the same flight as nor
The second was soe Korea Andrzej Burrell and the third woman verily
the description of the fourth Woman closely matched that of no
contemporary eyewitness accounts report that on the 6th of july
1944 the women suffered an appalling end as they were given Lethal injections and thrown
Some of them still alive
into the ovens and a camp crematorium
There is conclusion after very lengthy and detailed inquiries that was that nor was one of those four who died at Natzweiler
So that was how it was left
In the summer of 1946 by which time these particular investigations were concluded
But six months later North brother de [Lyonne] received a letter which would prove not died at Nab Spyler
the writer had been imprisoned at for time in Germany and
In the next door so a female English agent had managed to smuggle a note to her
She gave her name as [Nora] baker from for Tavataan Street in London
There was no doubt that this was noir
But more disturbing was the evidence that noir had been tortured
Her hands and feet to attained. I could hear the blows she received she suffered much
My Uncle valaya tandoor had a very very close bond
so when he knew that she'd been
Imprisoned at Fort time he spent a lot of time trying to research the details of her imprisonment
her treatment during that time
[if] she'd been tortured she wanted to find out everything he wants to know the truth
The prison records from [Fort] [cyclist] and what's evident from their contents? Is that noor was still lying to the enemy?
I'm Seaman. Oh that's interesting, Nora Baker's very clearly marked here 27th of November 43
Listed as a student born in
1920 which is the wrong date. Huh born in London
Was obviously trying to confuse in a bit?
But there is one last tiny detail in those prison records which would finally lead to the truth of what happened to her
the date of her transfer from Fort I'm
the 11th of September
1944
Zira adkins who had reopened knaus file knew that on the 12th of september
1944 the Day after noir left for time
Four of her missing women agents had been executed [at] Dachau concentration camp
It now seemed likely that noor was one of them
Dah the very name symbolizes all that was evil with Nazi Germany
it had always been a
Place I just I wanted to avoid I didn't want to be confronted with with that the harsh reality of this person's death
probably because I was brought up with her in a sense, not that she was there physically but
She was always present in conversations in the family
so took me a long time to come to terms with this with her death of [Dachau] the
[ss]. Deliberately kept no records of the soe women agents process to data
But after the war the testimony of former prisoners eventually revealed their safe assets and these two are mentioning
that there are some
English and French
Women had been brought to the camp
So he remembers that there were three French and one English woman
I saw them walking towards the crematory and then I heard shots
But I didn't see the corpses of the women
the English woman was no
Behind the crematorium at Da [house] is an isolated wood
It's here where the four women were executed
It was just simply said that
these [full] women
Were taken out into [a] yard they held hands and they were shot in the back of the neck and this was [a] story
There was something comforting about that story because they were able to hold hands [they] [were] shot cleanly they didn't suffer
Unduly and indeed in the letters to the next of Kin this was said
But there was to be one final twist in North Story
14 years after she was
Executed a letter was to emerge which gave an eyewitness account of what had really happened in North Final minutes at Dachau
It was brutal in its detail
It described how she was brought to the camp. She was picked out probably because of her dark skin
particularly, but also because she'd been
Mentioned as a dangerous prisoner because she refused to cooperate
Nor had been savagely attacked by the ss officer in charge
She was terribly beaten by robots all over her body. She did not cry or say anything
When Roberts got tired and the girl was a bloody mess
He told her he would shoot her
the only word [she] said before [rupa] [Chata] from behind was Liberty [and]
She'd been effectively beaten to death in the most cruel
Grotesque way by sadists
German Sadist guards who had enjoyed it
for the first time
[David] is presented with the man who brutally murdered his aunt [Friedrich] [wilhelm]
[rupert] he was executed in May
1946 in Landsberg only
looking at a picture of
This man I didn't know
yesterday that I'd
Be looking at my own
Executioner it's very chilling
to almost come face to face with this person we knew that she'd had a
horrific experience before being executed here, but I
Can't really
Express the feeling of seeing the person who did who committed that crime?
She died at the hands of Barbarians like that
But she died for a certain cause that she believed in
She believed that she was doing the right thing. She believed that the small role that she played would help somehow
Liberate so many oppressed people
For her bravery while working undercover in occupied France nor inayat
Khan would win the French quite again as well as Britain's George cross one of only three awarded to women in World War two
One of the final letters that north sent from [France] was to her sister Claire
How I miss you, what a celebration when we meet again
Wherever we go in the world and whoever we meet you can never find a substitute for a brother and sister
We had such a laugh and my sister made me laugh more than anyone can I
Often remember the last rush evening we had together
[Andy] gift, you Clever little girl
Still we will be seeing you soon, and we will have such a lot to tell each other
my mother finds it very difficult the thought of her sister's death and of course the
rather cruel details of her last hours
And out my mother will ever see this place. I think would be
just too difficult for her when you confronted with the Harsh reality of
Exactly, what happened [here]?
back in 1944
Claire is left with her memories
The letters nor [Rose] the music they play together
And the photographs of her sister
one of the second World Wars
Forgotten heroes
