The 3200 Women Spies Churchill Sent to “Set Europe Ablaze”
Vera Atkins, Noor Inayat Khan, Violette Szabo, Madeleine Damerment, Odette Sansom, Pearl Witherington, and the women of Britain’s Special Operations Executive were sent into Nazi-occupied Europe under Churchill’s order to “set Europe ablaze.” This World War II documentary uncovers the hidden story of SOE’s female agents: the couriers, wireless operators, and resistance organizers who parachuted into occupied France, operated behind enemy lines, and faced Gestapo capture without prisoner-of-war protection. At the center is Vera Atkins — the SOE intelligence officer who briefed agents, sent them from Tempsford airfield, and after the war hunted through Ravensbrück, Dachau, and Natzweiler to discover what happened to the women who never returned. From Noor Inayat Khan’s final transmissions in Paris, to Violette Szabo’s capture after D-Day, to Madeleine Damerment’s betrayal through German Funkspiel radio deception, this is the story of courage, institutional failure, and the names carved in stone at Valençay. A story of spies, sabotage, resistance, betrayal, and the women Churchill sent into the dark.
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