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In 1939,

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World War II exploded
across Europe.

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The World War II was the largest
single event in human history.

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55 million people were killed.

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A civilization in Europe collapsed.

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One brave woman
fought against the tide of war.

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She saw that the World War II

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presented an existential challenge.

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It became the overriding moment
of truth.

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She faced the greatest evil
in all of human history.

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Could she survive?

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In 1940,

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the Germans conquered France
and most of Europe.

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The World War II had begun.

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Two years before
the Americans entered the war,

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Britain was on its own.

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Desperate, they struck back
at the Germans

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in one of the few ways they could,

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by creating a secret organization.

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The Special Operations Executive,

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The S.O.E.

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The mission of S.O.E.

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was not to gather intelligence.
It wasn't an espionage outfit.

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It was, quote,
''to set Europe ablaze.''

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It was to carry out sabotage,

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blow up trains, blow up boats,
canals, railroads,

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to make contact with resistance
groups in Occupied Europe,

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which could then be supplied
from Britain.

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In the past,

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wars were fought
according to a book of war.

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And they're fought on battlefields
between men in uniform.

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But the S.O.E.
was completely different.

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Churchill has an interest
in kind of sabotage and subversion,

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and is keen
to try alternative forms of warfare.

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Stop.

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Platoon, fall out.

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This alternative warfare opened up
a surprising opportunity

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for one S.O.E recruit,

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Noor Inayat Khan,

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the daughter of an Indian father
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This is the first opportunity,

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really, I think, for a group
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and deploy them
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To her fellow trainees,

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Noor was a mystery.

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A petite woman with a Muslim name.

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A refugee from
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They knew that for two years

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she had served in the British
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as a radio operator,

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and trained in the Bomber Command.

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In many ways
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for the S.O.E.'s French network.

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She was plunged into this world

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where everything that
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related to the mission
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Surviving war office documents

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describe Noor as emotional
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Her superiors remarked on her
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There was something that seemed
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which struck them as exotic.

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I'm sure this played into
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Noor's instructors saw this
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another obstacle for a woman
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for the true reality of warfare.

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These were male instructors

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who were used to teaching
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And all of a sudden,
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reticent about doing that.

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But her skill on the radio
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S.O.E radio operators were
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Their average survival time
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before the Nazi tracking trucks
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This was the most important role,

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and the most difficult one
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So, their training was
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than those that were going in
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or organizers, for example.

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While Noor excelled
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she often lost focus when coding
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Seizing on this weakness,

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her instructors recommended against
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discounting her years of training,

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and attempting to end her career
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Noor's damaging training reports
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The head of S.O.E., France
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Maurice Buckmaster was,

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it seems to me,
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who'd been part of
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So he knew his way around Paris.
He was fluent in French.

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Buckmaster was enraged
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He needed every radio operator
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Get me, Marks!

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Leo Marks was the head of
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the chief cryptologist,

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and a genius of codes
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He was only 22 at the time.

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He was essentially given
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of figuring out which codes to use,

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how to train agents to use them,

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and how to train an army
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in how to decrypt those codes.

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the age of a college student.

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And his skill was that
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and teach them
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-Sir?
-Come in, Marks.

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I want you to look into
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For Buckmaster,

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Marks was Noor's last, best hope.

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The only way she could
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was to pass Marks's final review.

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Noor struggled with her coding,

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and Marks would have
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Noor Inayat Khan?

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Figure this girl out. Dig into it.

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They've already rejected her?

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Yes.

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And they went over my head to do it.
It's nonsense.

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So do whatever it takes, Marks,

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and make sure she passes

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that final coding briefing
with you as well.

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We need this one.

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I'll take care of it, Sir.
You can count on me.

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The file Marks was given contained
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as well as a biography

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written in her own hand
during the recruitment process.

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Marks set out to solve
the mystery of Noor Inayat Khan.

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The instructor is clearly biased,

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perhaps, because she's Indian.

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And of all things,

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he said she refuses to lie.

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How can you be an agent
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Who is this girl?

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Marks first looked into
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Hazrat Inayat Khan.

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He was a Muslim, born in India.

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A descendent of the famous
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He was also a teacher of Sufism,

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called to share the Sufi message

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a message that would one day have
a profound impact on Noor as well.

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Sufis are Muslims,
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They can be from
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or any school of religious law.

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They are engaged in practices

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that might be different

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from the obligatory practices
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whether they're singing,
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or the recitation of God's names,
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All of these practices
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but the Sufi tradition sees itself

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as deeply rooted in
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the Quran and the Prophet Muhammad.

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And there was a great focus
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So, music as a path to God,

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music as a way of self discovery,

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and music as a way to actually

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take this message
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after Hazrat completed
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his master sent him off
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to bring his music and his message
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In America, Hazrat traveled
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performing his music.

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But always my grandfather's
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was to spread a spiritual message.

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who could hear that message

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behind his music,
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and began to gather around him.

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It was in New York that Hazrat met

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and fell in love
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A ward of her older brother,
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who ran a yoga school.

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They came from different worlds.

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Sometimes opposites
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and it was in that context
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Hazrat Inayat Khan asked Ora Ray
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is how Perry Baker was enamored

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of the esoteric traditions
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but when it came to a family member,
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marrying a dark-skinned man,
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Despondent, Hazrat left America.

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where they were finally married.

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He set off to continue his teachings
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in St. Petersburg, Russia,
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They named her Noor un Nisa,

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meaning ''light among women,''

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and she would become
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She was from the very start,

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as a young child,
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and self-sacrificing.

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the family moved to Paris,

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into a house given to them
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It was called ''Fazal Manzil,''
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I grew up in this house.

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it was a family home
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Even in the days of Noor's
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it was a family home.

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it was a place for her father
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to give talks, to give classes,
to hold meetings.

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One of Hazrat's students
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painted a series of watercolors
depicting life at Noor's home.

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Surrounded by her father's students
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Noor felt deeply part
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regardless of skin color, religion,
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And her father's teachings
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He was a figure of
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for all who knew him.

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And the children
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but he was at the same time
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figure who was, in a sense,
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In the despairing years
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many Europeans found themselves
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and a new direction in their faith.

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They were attracted to the
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And especially the message of
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La ilaha illallah,

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which is often translated as
''There is no God but God.''

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But which means really,

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there is nothing at all
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which is to say that
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is interconnected, interrelated,

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and that everything comes from
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a singular being,
the one original divine life.

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The people who came for these talks
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educated people in any case.

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or Germany, Switzerland,

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quite a few French intellectuals,
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It was an international crowd.

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And his tradition came from a
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that all of the prophets of
all of the world's faiths

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are exemplars of
one planetary message.

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And that message is the message of
the divine unity,

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but a message which is conveyed
in many forms.

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Primarily, it was a path of service,
service to the poor,

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service to those in need,
and a call to remember God.

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Even as a child,

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Noor was drawn to this path
of service,

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one she would follow as she grew up.

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I think it really marked them
for life

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that the morals that he conveyed

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were not just something you learned
in Sunday school,

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but a way of being,
a way of living, that

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I could still see in my uncles and
my mother throughout their lives,

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very fundamental principles

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that they really tried to live by
and adhere to.

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Whereas Noor's previous trainer saw
her idealism as a flaw,

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Marks saw it as a strength,

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and perhaps even the key

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to making her a successful
S.O.E. agent.

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He really took to Noor,

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and I think he realized that
actually she was just somebody

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who was operating possibly
on a higher moral plane.

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And he seemed to be able
to tap into that.

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Marks learned that in 1927,

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when Noor was only 13 years old,

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her beloved father died on a trip
to India.

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So, his loss, his absence,
was an extraordinary loss.

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It was like this brilliant sun
had been shining over everything,

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and then suddenly departed.

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When Noor's father died,
she was very young.

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She was a young teenager
at the time,

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and took on a role of
mothering her siblings

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because her mother had fallen into
a state of deep depression,

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which lasted for years.

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At the same time,
there was always a focus on

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the religious nature

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of what this house represented.

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In other words, the Sufi message
that her father had brought,

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and this was something

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that became part of everyday life.

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His presence was, it seems,
constantly felt.

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After his death,

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Noor wrote in a letter how,
even in prayer,

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her father was near.

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"One night I woke,

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and I felt so strongly
the desire to say my prayers.

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With all my soul I said them.

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And in the silence of the night,

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it seemed so clear that
God heard me.

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And just at my final words,

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the clock struck, as if a reply.

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Three chimes which rang
through the silence.

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My father had told us that meant
God granted our prayers,

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and I fell asleep
with my heart full of joy."

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As Noor grew older,

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she began to write
children's stories.

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It seems that her father's teaching
is something she wanted to,

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not only live by,
but also to share with others.

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This would have been
in the writing of stories,

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the morals of which then
for children

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would be along the precepts of
what her...

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father's form of Sufism
had taught her.

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"Great Sun had a little daughter

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with sun-ray hair and sky-blue eyes.

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And Great Sun loved her dearly,

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for when she played
around the clouds,

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the whole sky would ring with
sweet laughter."

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Noor loved to share her stories
with the children

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who visited the family home.

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She published a collection of fables
called Twenty Jataka Tales,

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just months

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before she and her family were
forced to abandon the house and flee

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during the Nazi invasion.

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I can tell you that...

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the most cherished possession that
I have is a manuscript,

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written by her, by her own hand.

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And this is one of the stories
in the Jataka Tales.

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I cannot imagine any relic
more meaningful than this.

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It's... it's a picture of
her very soul.

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And, in fact, all of the stories
in the... in the Jataka Tales

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are stories of nobility
and sacrifice.

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And she, somehow, must have known,

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already at that stage in her life,

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at a soul level,
perhaps not consciously,

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that she was moving toward
this destiny,

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and she knew it.

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She actually published a book
for children,

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Twenty Jataka Tales.

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This bares a little study.

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A lot of surprises in our Ms. Khan.

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Somebody who is constantly escaping

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in some sense into stories about
magic animals

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is somebody who is trying to make
sense of the new world

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that she's landed up in.

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After reading the Jataka Tales,

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Marks knew he would have to
approach Noor

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in a completely different way.

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She seemed otherworldly

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because she was from another world,

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the world of her father.

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In many ways,
she is a disciple of her father.

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They're meant to actually be
doing things in this world.

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And that, no doubt,
had an impact on her.

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That, you can see that her...

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where she goes in her life,

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the types of actions she engages in,

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and a kind of activist ethics
that she embodies,

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is very much a part of
this tradition.

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That's why her stories were
full of self-sacrifice.

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That's why she refused to lie.

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These were the values of her father,

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and the religious environment
of her childhood.

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Now Marks had what he needed
to work with her effectively.

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He sent for her.

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If Noor had as much commitment
to her code work as to her values,

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she could not fail.

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Mr. Marks?

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I'm here for my final briefing.

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Ms. Khan.

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Have a seat.

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I believe if one studies history,

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this is one of the very few
global situations

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in which there's such a stark
contrast in values,

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and such a clear moral imperative,

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and I think she felt that
imperative very viscerally.

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I've read in your evaluations
that you refuse to lie.

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That's very noble.

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It was my father's greatest lesson.

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But, when you fail to encode
a message correctly, you have lied.

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-What?
-Yes.

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Actually, you're very similar to
the characters in your Jataka Tales.

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You've read my book?

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Like the characters in the fables,
Noor,

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your central mission
is to save lives.

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But when you fail to encode
a message correctly,

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people will die.

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The message will not get through.

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You must tell the truth.

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This provided the focus she needed.

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The grounding in the real challenges
she would face.

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And now what had been more abstract

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was thrust

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into a very tangible mold,

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the mold of the coming conflict.

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Marks watched as her technique
began to improve.

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Each time Noor finished
encoding a line,

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she closed her eyes
and ran her finger over the phrase,

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as if saying a prayer,

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tapping into a resource
no other agent had.

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And when she was done,

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her work was perfect.

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00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:46,180
There was one final task.

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00:21:46,220 --> 00:21:48,420
Marks must give Noor a bluff check,

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a secret signal by which they would
know that she had been captured,

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and that the Germans, not Noor,
were using her radio.

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Now one of the things Marks did

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00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:01,400
is he actually came up with
a custom security check.

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It was a special feature
of all of her messages

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that would make it possible
for London to tell

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whether or not she'd been captured,

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00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:12,260
even if she wasn't required
to tell a lie.

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All you need to do is remember
to never use a key phrase

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with 18 letters in it,

420
00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:20,260
any other number but not 18.

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If we receive a message
with 18 letters,

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we'll know you've been caught
by the Germans,

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and they're using your radio.

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Eighteen is my lucky number.

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Yes, I can do that.

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And I promise, I'll not forget it.

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00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:34,240
I will not disappoint you,
Mr. Marks.

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00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:41,440
Well, I think it's clear that Marks
had a little bit of crush on her.

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00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:42,460
She was very pretty,

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00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:44,420
according to everybody at the time.

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00:22:44,460 --> 00:22:46,320
She was very smart.

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And he had the opportunity
to write a report that said,

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00:22:49,300 --> 00:22:51,040
''She is a terrible coder,

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00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:53,100
she will never survive
behind enemy lines.

435
00:22:53,140 --> 00:22:54,060
Don't send her.''

436
00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:56,480
He had this chance
but he decided not to.

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00:22:57,020 --> 00:22:58,180
He wrote a glowing report,

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00:22:58,220 --> 00:23:00,280
and as a result of that
she was put on an airplane

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and sent into Occupied Paris.

440
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,420
On the night of June 16th,

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Noor and two other women
flew into France

442
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in a single engine
Lysander aircraft.

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Once in Paris,

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she would adopt an entirely
new identity

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that of a French children's nurse
named Jeanne Marie Renier.

446
00:23:22,060 --> 00:23:23,160
But to London,

447
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,320
Noor would be known
by her code name, Madeleine,

448
00:23:26,360 --> 00:23:29,220
radio operator
for the Prosper Network,

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00:23:29,260 --> 00:23:33,180
the largest and most important
S.O.E. group in France.

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She would be the key link
between the resistance

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and the British war office,

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transmitting critical information,

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and arranging for the drop of
weapons, and new agents.

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When Noor landed,

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a man called Henri Dericourt
was on the landing fields,

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00:23:50,140 --> 00:23:52,260
and was able to help her
out of the airplane,

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and loaded mail into the Lysander
along with other agents

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who were returning to Britain.

459
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Welcome to France, my dear friends.

460
00:24:01,420 --> 00:24:03,220
You must hurry.
There's not much time.

461
00:24:04,060 --> 00:24:05,300
Take these documents to the pilot.

462
00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:16,200
The headquarters of
the Prosper network

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00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:18,320
were just to the Northwest
of Versailles,

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00:24:18,360 --> 00:24:20,440
in the National School of
Agriculture.

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00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:26,140
It was here that she began
her first broadcasts back to London.

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00:24:27,300 --> 00:24:29,040
For every transmission,

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00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:32,180
she must string out
the 40 feet of antenna wire.

468
00:24:32,420 --> 00:24:34,300
It took agents quite a while

469
00:24:34,340 --> 00:24:36,400
after they arrived
to establish themselves.

470
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,300
They'd have to go
to their safe house.

471
00:24:38,340 --> 00:24:42,100
They would then have to
make contact with London.

472
00:24:42,140 --> 00:24:46,100
And Noor actually contacted London
within 72 hours of her arrival,

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00:24:46,140 --> 00:24:48,040
which was pretty much unprecedented.

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00:24:49,100 --> 00:24:50,380
At the agricultural school,

475
00:24:50,420 --> 00:24:52,440
Noor met France's Suttill,

476
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:56,160
code name Prosper, the leader of
the Prosper Network.

477
00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:00,020
Settling in,
some of her fears diminished.

478
00:25:00,060 --> 00:25:03,260
It was almost peaceful there,
almost like home.

479
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,260
I've heard you're a very good
operator, mademoiselle.

480
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:08,360
I'm glad to have you with us,

481
00:25:09,140 --> 00:25:13,100
but, this is very dangerous work.

482
00:25:14,100 --> 00:25:16,120
I'm happy to be of service
to the network.

483
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:18,100
Anything you need me to do,
I can do it.

484
00:25:18,140 --> 00:25:20,140
I promise I'll not disappoint you.

485
00:25:20,180 --> 00:25:21,380
You must never let down your guard.

486
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,460
The Germans are relentless.

487
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:26,300
I promise, I'll be careful.

488
00:25:30,420 --> 00:25:33,380
The organizer was out there
trying to recruit people.

489
00:25:33,420 --> 00:25:35,100
That was dangerous.

490
00:25:35,140 --> 00:25:37,100
The courier was carrying a message.
That was dangerous.

491
00:25:37,140 --> 00:25:40,200
But by far the most dangerous
was to be the wireless operator,

492
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:41,180
the radio operator.

493
00:25:43,060 --> 00:25:44,280
For the Prosper Network,

494
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:47,040
the Germans weren't the only threat.

495
00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:50,360
Rumors surfaced that
their own, Henri Dericourt,

496
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:54,340
the man who had met Noor's plane,
was a double agent.

497
00:25:54,380 --> 00:25:57,380
Agents in London suspected
Dericourt was employed

498
00:25:57,420 --> 00:26:00,200
both by the S.O.E. F Section,

499
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:01,420
and by the Abwehr,

500
00:26:01,460 --> 00:26:04,280
the German counter
intelligence agency.

501
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,440
Ah, Dericourt,
you are right on time.

502
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,300
It would explain why...

503
00:26:10,340 --> 00:26:16,000
the Abwehr and the Gestapo knew
about F Section headquarter staff,

504
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:17,360
knew about incoming agents.

505
00:26:18,460 --> 00:26:20,340
When a Lysander was
returning to Britain,

506
00:26:20,380 --> 00:26:22,340
it would often take documents

507
00:26:22,380 --> 00:26:25,320
that were too long
to be transmitted over

508
00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:28,400
wireless by the wireless operators.

509
00:26:29,120 --> 00:26:32,460
There's evidence to suggest that
Dericourt took that mail,

510
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:34,260
gave it to the Abwehr,

511
00:26:34,300 --> 00:26:36,220
which were then photocopied,

512
00:26:36,260 --> 00:26:38,340
and then returned to Britain.

513
00:26:39,060 --> 00:26:42,420
So everything that S.O.E.
headquarters was getting

514
00:26:42,460 --> 00:26:46,200
had previously been seen
by the Abwehr.

515
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:49,160
It meant that S.O.E.
was entirely compromised.

516
00:26:51,120 --> 00:26:53,100
Within days of Noor's arrival,

517
00:26:53,140 --> 00:26:55,200
the Gestapo struck,

518
00:26:56,220 --> 00:26:59,400
taking down the Prosper agents
one by one.

519
00:27:10,020 --> 00:27:11,480
It was the largest coup of its kind

520
00:27:12,020 --> 00:27:14,380
ever by the Gestapo in France.

521
00:27:15,180 --> 00:27:17,120
There were six other
wireless operators

522
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:18,440
based in Paris at this time,

523
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:22,040
and all of them were either
arrested or disappeared.

524
00:27:23,020 --> 00:27:24,380
Even Francis Suttill,

525
00:27:24,420 --> 00:27:27,020
the leader of the Prosper network,

526
00:27:27,060 --> 00:27:28,260
was no longer safe.

527
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,300
And as soon as one network,
or sub-circuit,

528
00:27:31,340 --> 00:27:34,220
had been infiltrated by
Abwehr agents,

529
00:27:34,260 --> 00:27:36,060
then it was just going to lead,

530
00:27:36,100 --> 00:27:38,280
like a domino effect,
to the collapse of all of them.

531
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:56,220
Suttill, Prosper himself, was
arrested on June the 24th, 1943,

532
00:27:56,260 --> 00:28:00,100
just seven days
after Noor joined his network.

533
00:28:00,420 --> 00:28:03,260
It would appear that
Prosper was doing very well.

534
00:28:03,300 --> 00:28:07,120
Obviously, we know that the rate at
which the Prosper circuit grew,

535
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:09,320
with all of these kinds of
sub-circuits,

536
00:28:09,360 --> 00:28:10,440
meant that sooner or later,

537
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,340
it was inevitable that
it was going to be penetrated.

538
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,380
Many of the agents
that were captured,

539
00:28:17,420 --> 00:28:20,060
especially in Northern France
and Paris,

540
00:28:20,100 --> 00:28:23,360
were taken to 84 Avenue Foch
in Paris.

541
00:28:24,220 --> 00:28:27,240
The basement was basically
a torture chamber, a jail.

542
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:30,300
Then there were
administrative rooms,

543
00:28:30,340 --> 00:28:33,320
and then at the top,
there were more cells, rooms,

544
00:28:33,360 --> 00:28:36,440
just windowless rooms,
to interrogate people.

545
00:28:39,420 --> 00:28:41,180
Here's the one
we've been waiting for.

546
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,200
I see you have shown
the poor judgment to resist.

547
00:28:46,140 --> 00:28:48,220
I trust you will think
more carefully here.

548
00:28:49,180 --> 00:28:50,340
Take him to room number three.

549
00:28:52,260 --> 00:28:55,000
At 84 Avenue Foch in Paris,

550
00:28:56,020 --> 00:28:58,440
Hans Kieffer was
the senior intelligence officer.

551
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:00,280
But Ernst Vogt,

552
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,340
as translator and interrogator,

553
00:29:02,380 --> 00:29:05,000
spent the most time
with captured agents.

554
00:29:05,380 --> 00:29:08,000
Pierre Cartaud,
a French collaborator,

555
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,060
was happy to be serving the Germans,

556
00:29:10,100 --> 00:29:11,320
and eager to please.

557
00:29:13,060 --> 00:29:17,200
Suttill's interrogation was
especially long and brutal.

558
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,460
We know how difficult
this is for you, Suttill.

559
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,400
You confessed your fears
in your letters to your wife.

560
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,300
There's nothing to be ashamed of.

561
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,180
It's a variation
of good-cop or bad-cop.

562
00:29:29,380 --> 00:29:31,380
There were those that would,

563
00:29:31,420 --> 00:29:34,020
you know, smash them
with a rubber truncheon,

564
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,120
and basically beat them up.

565
00:29:39,260 --> 00:29:41,140
More effective, they discovered,

566
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,480
was this sort of friendly talking.

567
00:29:45,020 --> 00:29:46,220
Have you no limits?

568
00:29:48,180 --> 00:29:49,280
Who has betrayed us?

569
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:54,000
We are all afraid in this war,
Suttill.

570
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:57,020
We are soldiers, so we are all men,

571
00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,460
but you can free yourself
of these fears.

572
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,260
There is nothing dishonorable in it.

573
00:30:02,300 --> 00:30:04,040
Simply help us.

574
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:05,480
Honor means nothing to you.

575
00:30:07,340 --> 00:30:10,280
Give us the locations of
the hidden arms and explosives

576
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,260
so we can protect our soldiers.

577
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,060
Give yourself peace.

578
00:30:15,460 --> 00:30:18,300
No one will be killed or harmed
in any way.

579
00:30:19,300 --> 00:30:21,040
I give you my word

580
00:30:21,340 --> 00:30:23,360
as an officer of the Third Reich,

581
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,220
an agreement between gentlemen.

582
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:33,020
You have my promise.

583
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:36,120
Give us the location.

584
00:30:46,060 --> 00:30:48,140
After days of endless questioning,

585
00:30:48,180 --> 00:30:50,100
the indications are that Suttill,

586
00:30:50,140 --> 00:30:52,480
shocked and demoralized
by the information

587
00:30:53,020 --> 00:30:54,320
the Germans already had,

588
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:58,140
including copies of letters
to his wife, gave in.

589
00:30:59,060 --> 00:31:01,160
Actually, many of the agents,
once captured,

590
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,260
did assume that they had
a protected status,

591
00:31:05,380 --> 00:31:10,180
that they believed what
the interrogators told them.

592
00:31:10,220 --> 00:31:12,100
Unfortunately,
that was not the case.

593
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:15,000
In the end, the Germans would arrest

594
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:17,260
hundreds of people
after the Prosper collapse,

595
00:31:17,300 --> 00:31:21,140
and confiscate countless tons
of arms and explosives.

596
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,480
Suttill himself was held for
two years

597
00:31:24,020 --> 00:31:27,220
in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
in Germany,

598
00:31:27,260 --> 00:31:30,260
before he was executed in 1945.

599
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,020
Noor's safe house
at the agricultural school

600
00:31:35,060 --> 00:31:36,280
was no longer secure.

601
00:31:37,060 --> 00:31:38,340
But in a stroke of good luck,

602
00:31:38,380 --> 00:31:41,140
Noor was warned
before it was too late.

603
00:31:41,180 --> 00:31:43,000
She had to flee immediately.

604
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:44,240
But where shall I go?

605
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:45,320
Ride to Paris.

606
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:47,320
See if Monsieur Garry can get you
to a safe house

607
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,300
if he has not already been
taken away, but hurry.

608
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:52,480
With only her bicycle,

609
00:31:53,020 --> 00:31:55,440
and a small bag,
Noor set off for Paris,

610
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,300
hoping there would be someone,

611
00:31:57,340 --> 00:31:59,460
anyone, who could help her.

612
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:00,480
To have this burden

613
00:32:01,020 --> 00:32:04,060
of not only being the radio operator
for this network

614
00:32:04,100 --> 00:32:05,320
that might be full of spies,

615
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,220
but to the be the only person,

616
00:32:07,260 --> 00:32:09,120
and knowing that
if she did what was safe,

617
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:12,040
which was to head back to London,
or to go into hiding,

618
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:14,020
she would essentially cut off
the operation

619
00:32:14,060 --> 00:32:16,300
and make everybody else's
sacrifice meaningless.

620
00:32:16,340 --> 00:32:18,220
That was an enormous pressure
for somebody,

621
00:32:18,260 --> 00:32:19,300
especially someone so young.

622
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,260
German soldiers were everywhere,

623
00:32:22,300 --> 00:32:24,320
on the lookout for Prosper agents.

624
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:28,080
But Noor's inexperience
may have worked to her advantage.

625
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:32,060
She hadn't been in Paris long enough
to make friends or enemies.

626
00:32:34,060 --> 00:32:37,080
Finally, Noor was able to transmit
from a safe house,

627
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,420
she'd found through
the local French resistance.

628
00:32:40,340 --> 00:32:43,180
When she learned that
she was the last radio operator

629
00:32:43,220 --> 00:32:44,280
left in Paris,

630
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:47,060
she knew she must quickly
get word to London

631
00:32:47,100 --> 00:32:49,360
that the Prosper network
had been destroyed.

632
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:55,000
Each of us participates in defining
the world in which we live,

633
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,120
and making the world
what it is to become.

634
00:32:58,100 --> 00:33:01,060
And she saw now
that this was her moment

635
00:33:01,100 --> 00:33:04,360
to make her mark,
to say what she believed,

636
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,340
and to say it, not merely in words,

637
00:33:06,380 --> 00:33:08,260
but to say it in action,

638
00:33:08,300 --> 00:33:11,380
and in the most dangerous
possible action.

639
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:13,440
Back in England,

640
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,400
an elaborate complex of
S.O.E. personnel

641
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:18,220
awaited Noor's message.

642
00:33:19,100 --> 00:33:20,180
Once received,

643
00:33:20,220 --> 00:33:23,180
the coded message was passed on
to a decoder,

644
00:33:23,220 --> 00:33:27,040
and then immediately
sent to F Section headquarters.

645
00:33:27,340 --> 00:33:29,320
If the bluff check was included,

646
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,160
they knew the agent
had not been captured.

647
00:33:33,420 --> 00:33:34,320
What is it?

648
00:33:38,180 --> 00:33:39,280
Oh, my God.

649
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:41,360
We have to get a message
back to her.

650
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:42,440
It's the Prosper network.

651
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,340
Prosper? What's happened?

652
00:33:44,380 --> 00:33:46,200
Take this down.

653
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,240
Most urgent to Paris station,
Madeleine.

654
00:33:50,260 --> 00:33:53,080
Buckmaster, the head of
F Section of S.O.E.,

655
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,120
had requested that
she return to Britain

656
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,340
because her safety was at risk.

657
00:33:57,380 --> 00:34:01,240
And she decided to ignore
that instruction

658
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:05,120
because she wanted to
rebuild the... the network.

659
00:34:06,060 --> 00:34:08,200
Everything depended on Noor.

660
00:34:08,240 --> 00:34:10,460
Buckmaster offered
to send a plane for her,

661
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:12,440
but she turned it down.

662
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,080
She was the last link to London.

663
00:34:16,020 --> 00:34:18,460
Without her, there would be no way
to deliver supplies

664
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:20,460
and guns to the resistance.

665
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:25,220
And a final lifeline would be cut
for downed Allied flyers in France,

666
00:34:25,260 --> 00:34:27,380
desperate to escape the Germans.

667
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:31,180
She would stay.

668
00:34:32,240 --> 00:34:34,200
The Germans used
direction finding vans,

669
00:34:34,240 --> 00:34:36,340
which would be able to pinpoint
the location of an agent

670
00:34:36,380 --> 00:34:37,440
transmitting a message.

671
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:38,380
And they'd be able to do that

672
00:34:38,420 --> 00:34:40,260
probably within about
15 or 20 minutes.

673
00:34:41,340 --> 00:34:45,120
The longer the radio operator
stayed on the air,

674
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:46,400
the greater the danger.

675
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,380
It got to a point where

676
00:34:48,420 --> 00:34:50,120
they were not supposed to stay

677
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,280
in communication
for more than five minutes.

678
00:34:53,220 --> 00:34:56,040
It was said that the life of
a wireless operator

679
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:57,400
was about six weeks.

680
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,380
So, it was an incredibly
dangerous role,

681
00:34:59,420 --> 00:35:01,020
the most dangerous.

682
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:07,300
The ordinary idea is that
idealism is not practical.

683
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:12,060
But in her case,
the opposite proved to be true.

684
00:35:12,100 --> 00:35:16,160
I believe it was her idealism itself
that carried her through.

685
00:35:17,420 --> 00:35:19,020
Despite the danger,

686
00:35:19,060 --> 00:35:22,180
Noor diligently kept the wire open
to England.

687
00:35:22,380 --> 00:35:25,040
She sent the names of
the captured agents,

688
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:26,400
scheduled weapons drops,

689
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:30,400
and continued to coordinate
the escape of downed Allied flyers

690
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:32,380
caught behind enemy lines.

691
00:35:35,300 --> 00:35:38,220
There was no relief from
her constant code work.

692
00:35:38,260 --> 00:35:40,320
She had total focus now.

693
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:45,040
Imagine the hardest math problem
you had to solve in high school.

694
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:46,480
And now imagine doing that
every day,

695
00:35:47,020 --> 00:35:49,040
and imagine knowing that
if you get the answer wrong,

696
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:50,080
somebody is going to die.

697
00:35:52,100 --> 00:35:53,480
And then the constant...

698
00:35:54,240 --> 00:35:56,020
threat, the realization

699
00:35:56,060 --> 00:35:59,240
that every time your finger hits
that... that key,

700
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,340
it's not just the people in England
who are hearing it,

701
00:36:02,380 --> 00:36:03,320
it's Germans, too.

702
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:05,380
And they're just...
they're just trying to find you,

703
00:36:05,420 --> 00:36:07,140
and, eventually, they will.

704
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:11,000
Weeks passed,

705
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:13,240
and Noor grew accustomed
to exhaustion

706
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:16,180
as she and her radio
were always on the move.

707
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,480
The radio operators couldn't just
put their radio down somewhere,

708
00:36:21,020 --> 00:36:22,440
in a barn, let's say...

709
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:25,000
and leave it there.

710
00:36:25,460 --> 00:36:27,480
They had to move it
from place to place.

711
00:36:28,420 --> 00:36:31,260
By then,
the Gestapo had her description,

712
00:36:31,300 --> 00:36:35,020
forcing her to change her appearance
at times to be safe.

713
00:36:35,060 --> 00:36:37,020
She could trust no one.

714
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:44,000
Once, when poor reception forced her
to rig her antenna outside,

715
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:45,160
she was discovered

716
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:48,420
with only her charm to protect her.

717
00:36:48,460 --> 00:36:52,040
This seems like quite a struggle
for you, mademoiselle.

718
00:36:52,420 --> 00:36:54,420
What have we here?
A radio?

719
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:58,140
Oh, you surprised me, major.

720
00:36:59,060 --> 00:36:59,400
I confess,

721
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:03,300
I am running a wire for my radio
to listen to jazz on the BBC.

722
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,420
It is forbidden I know,
but I must have my jazz.

723
00:37:06,460 --> 00:37:08,280
You understand, I am sure.

724
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:12,220
The music helps us
to forget the war, everything.

725
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:14,180
Do you dance?

726
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:18,440
I must confess,
I am a terrible dancer.

727
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,060
Everyone must have their music.

728
00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:23,180
Come,

729
00:37:24,140 --> 00:37:26,360
with any luck tonight,
Duke Ellington.

730
00:37:29,240 --> 00:37:32,320
Actually, being a woman was
a great advantage in this regard.

731
00:37:33,020 --> 00:37:36,480
Because women were
essentially invisible to the Germans

732
00:37:37,020 --> 00:37:42,040
as terrorists, or resistance agents,
or working for the S.O.E.

733
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:46,300
as Noor was, until relatively late,
much later than you expect.

734
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:50,180
It had been three months
since Noor arrived.

735
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:54,020
She'd already survived longer than
anyone thought she could.

736
00:37:54,060 --> 00:37:57,080
And Paris had only become
more dangerous.

737
00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:59,360
The Gestapo knew
what she looked like,

738
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:02,060
and even her code name, Madeleine.

739
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:04,460
There's evidence to suggest that
Gestapo knew about her,

740
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:05,420
and she was followed.

741
00:38:05,460 --> 00:38:07,140
But utilizing her training

742
00:38:07,180 --> 00:38:09,440
she was able to lose
the people following her.

743
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:11,320
Stop!

744
00:38:12,180 --> 00:38:15,140
(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

745
00:38:16,340 --> 00:38:19,220
(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

746
00:38:40,260 --> 00:38:42,260
(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

747
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:52,140
For all her time in Paris,

748
00:38:52,180 --> 00:38:55,260
Noor had never returned
to her childhood home.

749
00:38:55,300 --> 00:38:57,400
But now exhausted and alone,

750
00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:59,180
she returned to Suresnes,

751
00:38:59,220 --> 00:39:00,360
her old neighborhood,

752
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,360
calling upon a family friend.

753
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,440
It was a desperate
and dangerous choice.

754
00:39:07,420 --> 00:39:10,080
Agents were trained not to go

755
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,320
anywhere near people who might know
who they really were

756
00:39:13,460 --> 00:39:16,100
because it was felt that
that could be very dangerous

757
00:39:16,140 --> 00:39:17,440
and draw attention to them.

758
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:20,480
But Noor obviously was
in a situation

759
00:39:21,020 --> 00:39:23,340
where she wasn't sure what to do,

760
00:39:23,380 --> 00:39:25,300
and she trusted these people.

761
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:28,460
Noor? What are you doing here?

762
00:39:31,180 --> 00:39:33,160
Oh, it's so good to see you,

763
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,320
but we thought you left the country
with your family.

764
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,180
Madam Pinchon, please,
I am working for the British.

765
00:39:38,220 --> 00:39:39,180
The British?

766
00:39:39,220 --> 00:39:42,180
Yes. I need to set up a radio post.
You must help me.

767
00:39:42,220 --> 00:39:43,400
Oh, my God, Noor. Come in.

768
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:44,460
It is so dangerous.

769
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:46,260
There are Germans everywhere.

770
00:39:46,300 --> 00:39:48,380
It was a time at which
she could never be sure.

771
00:39:48,420 --> 00:39:50,040
She could not be sure

772
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:52,400
what the allegiances might be
of these people

773
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:54,160
that she had known very well.

774
00:39:55,220 --> 00:39:57,440
Noor's new life met her old

775
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,400
as she strung her radio antenna

776
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:02,220
in a place so close
to her family home.

777
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:15,360
Don't even think of
going over there, Noor.

778
00:40:17,100 --> 00:40:18,440
The house is full of Germans now.

779
00:40:20,060 --> 00:40:22,000
What would my father think?

780
00:40:22,260 --> 00:40:24,420
To see the house
so full of soldiers?

781
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:31,040
Maybe it was just a way of gaining
some kind of inner strength,

782
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:34,080
to just see the place where
her father and her mother had lived,

783
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:37,200
where she'd grown up,
and known maybe happier times.

784
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:46,400
Avenue Foch.

785
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:50,040
As the resistance became
more organized,

786
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:52,060
and the Germans were
getting more aware

787
00:40:52,100 --> 00:40:55,020
that this was going on,

788
00:40:55,400 --> 00:41:00,020
they started to offer money
for people to denounce people.

789
00:41:03,100 --> 00:41:04,180
Yeah, Heir Kieffer.

790
00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:09,360
Yes, the reward is as
advertised, miss.

791
00:41:12,240 --> 00:41:13,260
What is the name?

792
00:41:14,260 --> 00:41:16,360
I think even the Germans were
quite surprised

793
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:21,080
at the number of cases
that they were put in touch

794
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:24,080
with people who did prove
in the end to be

795
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:25,340
the kind of people
they were looking for.

796
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:28,380
It is good.

797
00:41:30,020 --> 00:41:31,260
They've sold us another one.

798
00:41:31,300 --> 00:41:32,380
Call Cartaud.

799
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:40,300
Noor was actually betrayed
by a woman called Renee Garry,

800
00:41:40,340 --> 00:41:44,120
who was the sister of the man
who ran the organization,

801
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,420
the circuit, that she belonged to.

802
00:41:46,460 --> 00:41:47,480
There would appear to be

803
00:41:48,020 --> 00:41:50,160
a sense of kind of jealously
and resentment.

804
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:53,460
Noor was very glamorous,
attractive woman.

805
00:41:54,460 --> 00:41:59,400
The informant identified
Noor's last secure apartment.

806
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:01,200
I think it's hard

807
00:42:01,240 --> 00:42:04,180
to imagine that people really
thought through

808
00:42:04,220 --> 00:42:06,260
the full consequences of
what they were doing

809
00:42:06,300 --> 00:42:10,020
or what... they didn't know about
the existence of the camps.

810
00:42:11,020 --> 00:42:13,260
But they did know that people
could die as a result of it.

811
00:42:13,300 --> 00:42:16,080
And we can't escape that fact.

812
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:28,300
How kind of you to leave
your radio and codes for us.

813
00:42:29,180 --> 00:42:31,120
Place your hands behind your head.

814
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:32,360
I intend to search you.

815
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:49,180
Back off or I'll shoot.

816
00:42:49,220 --> 00:42:50,380
As soon as she was captured,

817
00:42:50,420 --> 00:42:52,280
that code book fell
into German hands,

818
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:55,300
and they were able to see
the messages that she had sent.

819
00:42:55,340 --> 00:42:57,080
But, crucially, it also meant that

820
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:00,080
they could start communicating
with London, pretending to be her.

821
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,440
On October 13th, 1943,

822
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:08,100
after working in Paris as
an S.O.E. agent for four months,

823
00:43:08,140 --> 00:43:11,300
Noor Inayat Khan was arrested.

824
00:43:18,060 --> 00:43:19,200
What happened to you, Cartaud?

825
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:21,360
Take her to room number three.

826
00:43:27,240 --> 00:43:29,340
Shall I call you by your code name,
Madeleine?

827
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,360
And I see that in your letters
to your mother,

828
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:35,320
you sign them ''Babuly?''

829
00:43:36,380 --> 00:43:38,040
Very sentimental.

830
00:43:41,020 --> 00:43:42,040
How can you know that?

831
00:43:44,060 --> 00:43:46,360
Oh, we know your mother's name,

832
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:47,460
and where she lives.

833
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:52,320
We know your officer-in-chief
in London is named Buckmaster.

834
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:55,260
We know you trained
at Beaulieu Manor.

835
00:43:56,260 --> 00:43:58,360
We know a great deal about you,
Madeleine.

836
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:02,280
Do you have an agent in London?

837
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,000
Perhaps, we do.

838
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:12,020
Why don't you give us your
real name for a start?

839
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:14,020
Write it down for us.

840
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:18,260
And perhaps a contact here in Paris.

841
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:22,040
Someone unimportant.

842
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,020
There is nothing I can tell you.

843
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:31,320
There is no need to suffer,
Madeleine.

844
00:44:32,420 --> 00:44:34,320
Suttill was very cooperative.

845
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:37,360
He found an honorable way
to talk to us.

846
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:39,060
You can too.

847
00:44:40,220 --> 00:44:42,380
No one will be injured in any way.

848
00:44:42,420 --> 00:44:43,480
I promise.

849
00:44:44,180 --> 00:44:45,380
I have nothing to say to you.

850
00:44:45,420 --> 00:44:48,060
You represent everything I despise.

851
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:51,180
Don't be so harsh on us, Madeleine.

852
00:44:52,100 --> 00:44:54,060
We're only soldiers.

853
00:44:54,100 --> 00:44:55,320
We're no different than you.

854
00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:58,220
You are nothing like me.

855
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:06,140
Noor was a tiny, little,
petite woman,

856
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:08,000
but seemed to have...

857
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:13,400
the emotional strength of a tiger.

858
00:45:14,380 --> 00:45:18,180
It's very hard for me to imagine
what Noor was...

859
00:45:18,220 --> 00:45:19,480
must have been going through

860
00:45:20,020 --> 00:45:22,140
when she was arrested finally,

861
00:45:22,180 --> 00:45:25,220
and now in the presence of
interrogators

862
00:45:25,260 --> 00:45:27,240
of the German

863
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:29,300
terror apparatus organizations.

864
00:45:30,220 --> 00:45:32,340
They threatened her, cajoled her,

865
00:45:32,380 --> 00:45:34,380
promised her special treatment.

866
00:45:34,420 --> 00:45:36,260
They did everything they could,

867
00:45:36,300 --> 00:45:38,280
but she refused to give in.

868
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:43,340
It was her deep commitment to
certain core spiritual values

869
00:45:43,380 --> 00:45:45,080
that were unshakable,

870
00:45:45,420 --> 00:45:51,140
that led her to resist
all temptations, and threats,

871
00:45:51,180 --> 00:45:55,020
and to adhere passionately
to what she believed to be true.

872
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:56,340
Take her out.

873
00:45:58,340 --> 00:46:01,200
The interrogation went on for days,

874
00:46:01,240 --> 00:46:03,160
but they couldn't break her.

875
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:05,380
Noor could think only of escape.

876
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:09,400
She wasn't going to collaborate
with... with the Germans.

877
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:12,300
She refused to give any information.
She refused to talk to them.

878
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:14,340
In her cell,

879
00:46:14,380 --> 00:46:17,220
Noor wrote secret notes
to two other prisoners,

880
00:46:17,260 --> 00:46:19,120
suggesting a break out.

881
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:24,320
They used the private lavatory

882
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:27,360
as a drop point for the notes
and hatched a plan.

883
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:33,420
Her fellow prisoner, John Starr,

884
00:46:33,460 --> 00:46:35,320
stole a screwdriver,

885
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:38,220
hiding it each morning
for the others to find.

886
00:46:42,300 --> 00:46:44,340
Noor worked for three weeks,

887
00:46:44,380 --> 00:46:46,020
trading off the tool,

888
00:46:46,060 --> 00:46:47,300
using its sharp edge

889
00:46:47,340 --> 00:46:51,100
to dig the iron rungs away from
the window's concrete frame.

890
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:54,320
The fact that Noor repeatedly tried
to escape,

891
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:59,020
both on her own and in collaboration
with other captured resisters

892
00:46:59,060 --> 00:47:00,340
at Avenue Foch,

893
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:03,480
is... is pretty unprecedented
and... and unique.

894
00:47:04,220 --> 00:47:09,480
They managed to remove the rungs
on the window,

895
00:47:10,020 --> 00:47:13,160
by the use of a screwdriver,
trying to escape.

896
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:18,420
Noor was the last
to loosen her bars.

897
00:47:18,460 --> 00:47:22,020
But her fellow prisoners were able
to remove the heavy skylight,

898
00:47:22,060 --> 00:47:24,060
and help her up onto the roof.

899
00:47:27,060 --> 00:47:28,320
They were finally free.

900
00:47:31,140 --> 00:47:33,160
But as they fled into the night,

901
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:35,340
an air raid siren blared,

902
00:47:35,380 --> 00:47:37,400
alerting the guards to their escape.

903
00:47:41,220 --> 00:47:44,240
They were thwarted by an RAF raid.

904
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:47,240
As soon as an air raid happened,

905
00:47:48,020 --> 00:47:51,380
then the prison staff
would check on the cells.

906
00:47:51,420 --> 00:47:53,480
And then it was
the alarm was raised.

907
00:47:55,140 --> 00:47:57,360
After less than an hour of freedom,

908
00:47:57,400 --> 00:47:59,400
the three prisoners were once again

909
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:02,360
led into Gestapo headquarters.

910
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:07,040
This, I think, is evidence of
the kind of person that Noor was.

911
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:09,180
We know that she was shy.
We know that she was reticent.

912
00:48:09,220 --> 00:48:10,140
We know that she was small.

913
00:48:10,180 --> 00:48:12,220
And, yet, clearly,
she had this ferocious streak

914
00:48:12,260 --> 00:48:13,440
and desire to escape.

915
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:19,380
Berlin?

916
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:23,380
This was the last straw for Kieffer.

917
00:48:23,420 --> 00:48:26,340
In a letter sent to Nazi
headquarters in Berlin,

918
00:48:26,380 --> 00:48:28,220
Kieffer designated Noor

919
00:48:28,260 --> 00:48:30,060
''Nacht und Nebel,''

920
00:48:30,100 --> 00:48:32,080
''Night and Fog.''

921
00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:35,080
One of the classifications
that the Germans, the Nazis,

922
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:37,040
gave to their prisoners

923
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:40,100
was something called
''Nacht und Nebel.''

924
00:48:40,140 --> 00:48:43,460
And it comes from a saying

925
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:46,420
(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

926
00:48:46,460 --> 00:48:49,060
''She should disappear
into night and fog.''

927
00:48:51,260 --> 00:48:54,420
So this was an identifier
for agents

928
00:48:54,460 --> 00:48:58,160
who were seen as the most dangerous,

929
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:02,280
that they would disappear into
the concentration camp system,

930
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:04,040
and never be released.

931
00:49:04,460 --> 00:49:06,060
Noor was helpless.

932
00:49:06,100 --> 00:49:07,240
Her fate sealed.

933
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:10,220
And tragically, in German hands,

934
00:49:10,260 --> 00:49:12,400
her radio continued to broadcast

935
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:15,020
under her code name Madeleine.

936
00:49:16,220 --> 00:49:17,380
Back in England,

937
00:49:17,420 --> 00:49:19,220
Buckmaster and Marks

938
00:49:19,260 --> 00:49:23,460
were unaware of Noor's capture
until it was too late.

939
00:49:24,240 --> 00:49:27,300
The bluff check for
Noor Khan is wrong, Sir.

940
00:49:27,340 --> 00:49:29,320
There are 18 letters.

941
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:31,000
How did this happen?

942
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:32,280
Why wasn't I notified?

943
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:34,380
I gave very specific instructions
about her.

944
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:37,000
Do you understand what this means?

945
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:43,140
It means the Germans have been using
her radio and codes, Marks,

946
00:49:44,240 --> 00:49:46,040
making fools of us all.

947
00:49:47,260 --> 00:49:48,420
It means they have her.

948
00:49:50,060 --> 00:49:52,160
She's gone. Poor girl.

949
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:08,180
She had held up against three weeks

950
00:50:08,220 --> 00:50:11,240
of unsuccessful interrogation
in Paris.

951
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:15,260
Then, finally,
on November 26th, 1943,

952
00:50:15,300 --> 00:50:19,380
Noor was sent by train
to Pforzheim prison in Germany.

953
00:50:19,420 --> 00:50:22,000
For her journey,
and her time in prison,

954
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:25,060
Noor was ordered to be kept
always in chains,

955
00:50:25,100 --> 00:50:28,160
always isolated
from her fellow prisoners.

956
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:32,200
I'm not aware of any other agent
who was treated in that way.

957
00:50:32,240 --> 00:50:35,320
They clearly were concerned
that she would try to escape again.

958
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:39,420
There does seem to be
this determination not to give in.

959
00:50:43,380 --> 00:50:46,420
Finally, after almost a year
in captivity,

960
00:50:46,460 --> 00:50:48,400
Noor was taken to Dachau,

961
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:51,420
the concentration camp
where thousands of Jews,

962
00:50:51,460 --> 00:50:53,080
political prisoners,

963
00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:56,480
and others considered
an enemy of the Reich, were killed.

964
00:50:58,140 --> 00:51:01,240
So she, of course, feared death.

965
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:03,200
Every human being fears death.

966
00:51:03,240 --> 00:51:06,200
And no doubt
she feared more than death,

967
00:51:06,240 --> 00:51:11,000
the horrors of... of... of the
brutality, of the Gestapo.

968
00:51:13,100 --> 00:51:18,160
She came face to face
with the very worst of reality,

969
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:20,400
the worst of the world
in which we live.

970
00:51:21,220 --> 00:51:22,320
How did she...

971
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:25,220
how did she survive?
How did she make her way through?

972
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:28,260
I don't know that anyone can...

973
00:51:30,060 --> 00:51:31,420
quite answer that question.

974
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:33,420
It...

975
00:51:34,460 --> 00:51:35,260
it...

976
00:51:37,140 --> 00:51:41,360
it speaks of a level of faith,

977
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:48,040
of resilience, of trust
in the divine beneficence,

978
00:51:49,300 --> 00:51:55,200
in an assurance that, in the end,

979
00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:59,380
when all of this
horror is exhausted,

980
00:51:59,420 --> 00:52:03,040
that the sun will... will dawn.

981
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:05,100
That must have been her faith.

982
00:52:05,140 --> 00:52:07,460
Only that faith could have
carried her through.

983
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:19,240
''Do come back, little daughter,''
the birds sang,

984
00:52:19,460 --> 00:52:22,380
"The whole world is so sad
without you.

985
00:52:23,180 --> 00:52:26,060
The tall trees have lost
all their leaves,

986
00:52:26,100 --> 00:52:28,020
so hard have they wept.

987
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:30,240
The birds sing no more.

988
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:34,100
Even the great sun is so sad,

989
00:52:34,220 --> 00:52:36,420
that if you do not return,
little daughter,

990
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:39,100
he may never come again.''

991
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:45,280
Her message was that

992
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:51,200
the human soul
is of the divine source.

993
00:52:51,240 --> 00:52:54,440
That every human being
is sacrosanct.

994
00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:57,040
That all people must be free,

995
00:52:57,080 --> 00:53:02,080
and that if it requires
the sacrifice of one's own life,

996
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:05,280
then that common wealth of humanity

997
00:53:06,240 --> 00:53:08,180
deserves such a sacrifice.

998
00:53:34,020 --> 00:53:36,020
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