Speaker 1: Diversion audio. A note this episode contains descriptions of violence
Speaker 1: that may be disturbing for some audiences. Please take care
Speaker 1: in listening. This series is based on historical characters and
Speaker 1: real events. Some dialogue has been imagined for dramatic purposes
Speaker 1: when no primary source material is available. Virginia Hall's predicament
Speaker 1: was pressing a spy working for the Nazis. She knew
Speaker 1: his father Akhn real name Robert Alesh, had exposed her
Speaker 1: identity to the enemy. Now she had to get out
Speaker 1: of France and into Spain. And that meant an excruciating
Speaker 1: climb over thirty miles of tumultuous mountain terrain. It meant
Speaker 1: crossing the Pyrenees. Well, it's it's a chain of mountains.
Speaker 1: It stretches from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean like a
Speaker 1: kind of belt, and it's a very natural border between
Speaker 1: France and Spain. It's very wild. That's Edwards Sterton, a
Speaker 1: BBC broadcaster who made a commemorative track across the Pyrenees
Speaker 1: some seventy years after Virginia Hall, and gosh it was brutal.
Speaker 1: I mean it really really was brutal. Some of it
Speaker 1: you're almost climbing they put some guide ropes in so
Speaker 1: you can hold yourself up, but just scrambling up rocks,
Speaker 1: and it made you realize what it must have been
Speaker 1: like for the people who did that during the war.
Speaker 1: After his track, Sterton wrote a book called Cruel Crossing
Speaker 1: Escaping Hitler Across the Pyrenees about the people who fled
Speaker 1: occupied Europe via this mountain range during World War Two.
Speaker 1: And I think that there is a strong sense that
Speaker 1: the memory of what happened then, under the extraordinary heroism
Speaker 1: that people and generosity of spirit actually that people showed,
Speaker 1: needs to be remembered. The Pyrenees claimed many lives once
Speaker 1: the Nazis took over France, as French immigrants downed Allied
Speaker 1: soldiers and Jewish Europeans attempted to flee over the mountains.
Speaker 1: They were the back door who occupied Europe because if
Speaker 1: you think about it, once the Germans had moved in
Speaker 1: and occupied France and taken Belgium and Holland and so forth,
Speaker 1: there was no other way out of Europe. You couldn't
Speaker 1: go east because you bumped into Germany. There was the sea,
Speaker 1: but that was extremely perilous. So the Pyrenees was really
Speaker 1: the only sort of the emergency exit, if you like.
Speaker 1: In the trek with arduous to say the least, some
Speaker 1: froze to death, some suffocated from the lack of oxygen
Speaker 1: that came with the heights, Some fell into a rocky grave.
Speaker 1: Others got lost and were never heard from again. That's
Speaker 1: nothing to say of the avalanches that plagued the mountains
Speaker 1: every year. And on top of all that, there was
Speaker 1: always the risk that you'd be captured by the Germans.
Speaker 1: Edwards Sterton remembers the story he heard about a child
Speaker 1: whose mother carried her across the mountain range. They had
Speaker 1: one extraordinary memory that had come down to her from
Speaker 1: her mother who carried her across the mountains, which was
Speaker 1: that she cried as a child, as a childhood in
Speaker 1: freezing cold temperatures and up in the mountains, and the
Speaker 1: guide said, stop your child crying, because otherwise it'll alert
Speaker 1: the Germans to where we are. And if you can't
Speaker 1: stop it crying, I'm going to shoot it, which I
Speaker 1: mean sounds awful, But that kind of thing went on
Speaker 1: in the high mountains in what were very extreme conditions
Speaker 1: where everybody was risking their lives. Virginia knew that attempting
Speaker 1: to try alone would mean death, especially given that she'd
Speaker 1: be hiking with her prosthetic leg. Luckily, Peppignon, the town
Speaker 1: she'd landed in, had a resistance contact she knew fairly well,
Speaker 1: a man known to her by his code name Jill Bear.
Speaker 1: So I say to my friends, if you didn't want
Speaker 1: the calf, you shouldn't have paid for the cow. Ah Mo,
Speaker 1: my dear and darling a y surprise trip to Papignon
Speaker 1: looking for some mountain air. You don't know the it?
Speaker 1: Can you get me over? You want to take the hike?
Speaker 1: I do so, Junior? Can you find me a guide?
Speaker 1: Jor It's funny how faith works. Of course I can
Speaker 1: get you a guide? Was the right price. I want
Speaker 1: to introduce you to my friends Antoine Jean, and they
Speaker 1: are desperate to get over the mountain as well. But
Speaker 1: they've come to me a bit empty pocketed. Virginia couldn't
Speaker 1: help but feel betrayed. How could Gilbert be so avaricious
Speaker 1: when four lives were at steak? But there's been news
Speaker 1: recently of additional Germans entering France to defend against the
Speaker 1: oncoming American forces. Fears were growing everywhere money would be
Speaker 1: even harder to come by. Gilbart was one of Virginia's
Speaker 1: best contacts who specialized in shepherding runaways out of the country,
Speaker 1: but it always came with a price. What were you thinking,
Speaker 1: Gil seventy francs seventy tho you mean Rice Mark? You
Speaker 1: intend to win the wall? Don't you? What good will
Speaker 1: gentleman money be? Then? Funk, that's as much as I
Speaker 1: can do. Oh, I could have the five of us
Speaker 1: bound together and rolled into the nearest sort of gestapo.
Speaker 1: Whichever works better for your wallet. Gilly, you've got the deer.
Speaker 1: Enjoy your trip. I would bundle up if I were you.
Speaker 1: I'm Steven Talty and from Diversion. This is good Assassin's
Speaker 1: Season two. Being killed would be the easy part. Being
Speaker 1: tortured would be the hard part. Our intel suggests she
Speaker 1: is behind many of the prison bricks all over the country.
Speaker 1: She's dangerous, so sabotage plus a little espionage paramilitary operations
Speaker 1: make things blow up. The message for Captain Bobby and
Speaker 1: I believe I have found the nest of the Limping Lady.
Speaker 1: Episode seven. Escape into the mountains late in the night
Speaker 1: of November eleven, Virginia found herself in a car with
Speaker 1: a three fleeing Frenchman driven by her context you'll bear
Speaker 1: to the nearby town of Lava Lenai, where their guide
Speaker 1: across the mountains was waiting for them. The ride was
Speaker 1: mostly silent. Virginia felt shame emitting from the other passengers, Henri,
Speaker 1: Antoine and Jean. They didn't seem like men who wanted
Speaker 1: to accept any kind of charity. They arrived in love Alena,
Speaker 1: and Virginia was introduced to their guide, a tall, secular
Speaker 1: Basque man introduced as one. When he saw that one
Speaker 1: of the hikers was a woman. Once sneered, muttering a
Speaker 1: curse of annoyance in Spanish to Gilbert. Virginia responded to
Speaker 1: One's insult in Spanish, embarrassing him and quickly shutting him up.
Speaker 1: It wasn't the best first impression, but Virginia couldn't help herself.
Speaker 1: The route they would be taking over the Pyrenees was dangerous,
Speaker 1: and one was unconvinced that a woman could handle the journey.
Speaker 1: I think the pass were extremely picky about who they took,
Speaker 1: precisely because it was so dangerous and they were risking
Speaker 1: their own lives. So I collet you imagine any child
Speaker 1: doing this on foot. To be honest, it's it's too tough.
Speaker 1: That's Edwards Sterton again. Being a guide or passer was
Speaker 1: incredibly dangerous. If they were found out they you know,
Speaker 1: things could be very, very nasty. Indeed, and many of
Speaker 1: them who worked or went off into camps in Germany,
Speaker 1: a lot of them died. A lot of them died
Speaker 1: in really awful ways. The Germans had a system called
Speaker 1: noc To, Niebel, Knight and Fog, which meant that people
Speaker 1: just disciplined into the system of concentration camps and nobody
Speaker 1: knew where they were, which of course was intended to
Speaker 1: frighten anybody considering going on to the wrong side and
Speaker 1: joining an escapeline and helping people to get over over
Speaker 1: the Pyrenees. The next morning, November twelve, One woke up
Speaker 1: his crew by handing them knapsacks with food for the track.
Speaker 1: He informed the four that they'd each be responsible for
Speaker 1: rationing their own meals and they couldn't bring anything extra
Speaker 1: as the added weight would slow them down. One gave
Speaker 1: them the impression he was a real mountain man, as
Speaker 1: cold and hard as the rocky exteriors he navigated for
Speaker 1: a living. Virginia quickly realized that she'd have to hide
Speaker 1: her false leg from one the entire trip, as there'd
Speaker 1: be no way he'd bring her along if you found
Speaker 1: out that, in addition to being a woman, she was
Speaker 1: also disabled. As the five march to the beginning of
Speaker 1: the trail, one peppered them with facts about this part
Speaker 1: of the Pyrenees. The highest peak was estimated to be
Speaker 1: about eleven thousand feet, the range had cleaned over thirty
Speaker 1: lives just that year, and there were rumors you could
Speaker 1: hear the ghostly cries of the lost in the gusts
Speaker 1: of wind that blew up from the valleys below. From
Speaker 1: everything we know about her, Virginia Hall was not a
Speaker 1: superstitious person. By all accounts. She was very rational, even skeptical. Still,
Speaker 1: she couldn't help but listen for whispers in the wind
Speaker 1: as they began their mountain ascent of the Pyrenees. Deep
Speaker 1: deep snow, very very cold, absolutely routal conditions. I would
Speaker 1: think Edwards Sterton again, you certainly freeze to death, no
Speaker 1: question about it. It's difficult to convey quite what it's
Speaker 1: like when it gets really really cold. Think of your worst,
Speaker 1: your coldest cold day, and then multiply it by a
Speaker 1: hundred and remember, of course, that you are trying at
Speaker 1: the same time to track very difficult to rain. Many
Speaker 1: didn't make it, and a lot of those who did
Speaker 1: make it tell stories of terrible choices. Either when your
Speaker 1: when your friend is exhausted, do you leave him? Or
Speaker 1: do you do you try and bring it with you
Speaker 1: with you. It didn't take long before discomfort and fatigue
Speaker 1: began to creep in. It took the group several hours
Speaker 1: to hike uphill through the Orgay Valley in Virginia. Stump
Speaker 1: and began to feel rut raw. She could feel it
Speaker 1: blistering against the course wood of her false leg, but
Speaker 1: knew that stopping would reveal her disability too early. She
Speaker 1: realized she couldn't ignore this reality for much longer. If
Speaker 1: she could just make it to the midpoint of the
Speaker 1: journey before she revealed anything to want, at least at
Speaker 1: that point, he wouldn't risk turning back. The people of
Speaker 1: Marseille are established. According to Alicia Radio at the large
Speaker 1: number of troops the Germans are pouring into the city
Speaker 1: each day so far has brought a larger block than
Speaker 1: the day before. Sixty contingents are expected. All available housing
Speaker 1: accommodation has been requisited. Just days before Virginia began this
Speaker 1: mountain escape in November, the Nazi regime had in fact
Speaker 1: extended its occupation and formal governance of France with a
Speaker 1: further invasion of France's southern quote unquote reazone. So by
Speaker 1: this time, some two years into the Nazi occupation, even
Speaker 1: the mountain ranges were patrolled by the Germans, especially at night.
Speaker 1: They've built a number of tiny three man ports at
Speaker 1: various checkpoints throughout the Pyrenees, which allowed them to capture
Speaker 1: escape bees and fugitives and quickly process their papers for
Speaker 1: deportation to concentration camps. Juan plan so the group was
Speaker 1: mostly traveling in the evening and morning hours for the
Speaker 1: long stretches with little natural cover. That way, hiding would
Speaker 1: be easier if necessary. It was just one rule, never
Speaker 1: fleet from the group. If I losed you for even
Speaker 1: a minute, forever, it's not my job to find you.
Speaker 1: It was one of the few things that Juan would
Speaker 1: say the entire trip. He was stoic, no nonsense, but
Speaker 1: something about him made Virginia's highly attuned sensors suspicious. Luan
Speaker 1: wasn't a member of the resistance. He was just one
Speaker 1: of Gilbart's contacts, and Virginia hadn't had time to check
Speaker 1: his background. It was entirely possible that he could be
Speaker 1: leading them right into the hands of the enemy. He
Speaker 1: had already been paid, and there was nothing stopping him
Speaker 1: from taking bribes from the Nazis. Once the idea popped
Speaker 1: into her head, Virginia couldn't get it out. She imagined
Speaker 1: finally reaching the highest peak of the Pyrenees, straining every
Speaker 1: muscle in her body to make the ascent, only to
Speaker 1: be handed over to the waiting, sickening smiles of Robert
Speaker 1: Alesh and Klaus Barbie. She could practically hear Unlesha's voice
Speaker 1: taunting her. I thought you were smarter than this, miss Oil,
Speaker 1: and yet you are delieve it to me with your
Speaker 1: fisthy tail between your legs. She noticed that much of
Speaker 1: wh trail seemed to follow closely along a winding mountain stream.
Speaker 1: Virginia decided that if he tried anything funny, she could
Speaker 1: take the knife she brought along to defend herself and
Speaker 1: put some of her s O E combat training to
Speaker 1: good use. Then maybe she could guide the men herself
Speaker 1: along the stream until they reached Spain. She was ready
Speaker 1: to do it, but watching one on the trail and
Speaker 1: noting again his enormous size and strength, she prayed one
Speaker 1: was on the up and up. We'll find out after
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Speaker 1: you listen to podcasts. The track was proving brutal. Juan
Speaker 1: had led to four travelers out of the most dangerous
Speaker 1: German hot zones, but now they faced an elemental disaster,
Speaker 1: deep heavy snow that devoured every step they took. This
Speaker 1: was especially tough for Virginia, whose wooden leg was of
Speaker 1: almost no use. For stub was mangled, bloody, and splintered,
Speaker 1: and she couldn't push it against the fallen snow floor
Speaker 1: that came up as high as her knees. She instead
Speaker 1: had to move forward on her good leg and quickly
Speaker 1: followed behind in a sidestepping motion that got one's attention.
Speaker 1: He must have found it strange, but he didn't come now.
Speaker 1: If you haven't already gotten a clear picture of Virginia
Speaker 1: Hall as a tough, badass spine, the fact that she's
Speaker 1: managing this harsh, miserable mountain expedition with prosthetic leg should
Speaker 1: bring it into focus. At a pass between the mountains,
Speaker 1: one noted they were at about eight thousand feet, so
Speaker 1: they'd have to be mindful of their breathing. He informed
Speaker 1: them a substantial break would be coming soon. Size of
Speaker 1: relief came from the frozen exhausted room. Up ahead, one
Speaker 1: pointed out an old habit he used for his trips. Inside,
Speaker 1: he promised they'd find shelter and beds. The trio men
Speaker 1: were ecstatic. Virginia, on the other hand, knew this would
Speaker 1: be the perfect place for an ambush. Still she didn't
Speaker 1: really have another option. The cabin wasn't significantly warmer than
Speaker 1: what they trudged through for hours, but it did protect
Speaker 1: them from the snow and wind. There are cuts for everyone.
Speaker 1: Get some rest. We have to be on our feet. Soon.
Speaker 1: I'll make a fire. A fire will attract that engine,
Speaker 1: won't it. It'll be small. The wind will hide the smoke. Again,
Speaker 1: alarm bells sounded in Virginia's head. She had learned to
Speaker 1: trust her gut and had served her well, and her
Speaker 1: guts were telling her something was wrong. But the screen
Speaker 1: they had seemed to be following had fallen away. Her
Speaker 1: foot and hands were frozen. If one was a trader,
Speaker 1: there was really nothing she could do. She wouldn't win
Speaker 1: a physical fight with him, and even if she did,
Speaker 1: she either freezed to death in the cabin or be
Speaker 1: lost in the mountains. Her best plan was to just
Speaker 1: play along with Wan and hope for the best, as
Speaker 1: Edward Sterton explains, and once you're at the top, stomping
Speaker 1: is not an option. You know. You can't just take
Speaker 1: a break. You have to keep going. After one finally
Speaker 1: warmed the cabin with a fire, Virginia waited for the
Speaker 1: men to fall asleep. Then she checked her bad leg.
Speaker 1: Her stump was blistered and swollen, with blood oozing through
Speaker 1: the sock. She cleaned it as best she could and
Speaker 1: carefully replace the dressing, all the while wincing an extreme pain.
Speaker 1: After she dressed the wound, she attempted to get some sleep,
Speaker 1: keeping her knife under her knapsack. If someone attacked, it
Speaker 1: was within arm's reach and she would go down fighting.
Speaker 1: Virginia's later reports on Robert alesh imply he was always
Speaker 1: top of mind for her. She had made a thrilling
Speaker 1: life for herself as a spy, and he had almost
Speaker 1: single handedly stolen it away, forcing her to flee France
Speaker 1: and her work with the Resistance. It isn't a stretch
Speaker 1: to think that on this perilous journey he appeared to
Speaker 1: her in dreams and nightmares, still in hot pursuit. If
Speaker 1: only you were smarter, you could have said so many No, no,
Speaker 1: mae Hello. Virginia had fallen asleep and slept like a
Speaker 1: rock for four hours. It took her a minute to
Speaker 1: register that Juan was addressing her with her code name,
Speaker 1: It's time to go. She hadn't been attacked or turned
Speaker 1: over to the Gestapo. Robert Alesh was nowhere to be found.
Speaker 1: In silence and embarrassed, Virginia prepared for the rest of
Speaker 1: the trip. They packed up and returned to the trail.
Speaker 1: After a few hours of hiking, the group arrived at
Speaker 1: a small village nestled in a valley. One claimed to
Speaker 1: know a family living in the town and said that
Speaker 1: they had offered up their home to any Resistance fugitives.
Speaker 1: It was the first time Virginia heard Juan actually referenced
Speaker 1: the Resistance, and this allowed some of her paranoia to
Speaker 1: dwindle away gusts. They arrived at the home of a
Speaker 1: young couple named Philippe and and Marie. Their last names
Speaker 1: have been lost to history belief and a Marie invited
Speaker 1: the group in and treated them like family. Virginia had
Speaker 1: never been more elated to see civilization in her life.
Speaker 1: But Leap also allowed Virginia to use his radio to
Speaker 1: contact London so she could update them on her status
Speaker 1: through the mountains. Using Morse code, Virginia informed the s
Speaker 1: OE of her whereabouts there was a safe house midway
Speaker 1: where the famous radio transmission took place. That's Judith Pearson,
Speaker 1: an expert on Virginia Hall who wrote The Wolves at
Speaker 1: the Door, The True story of America's Greatest female Spine.
Speaker 1: She radioed to London saying that she was out of
Speaker 1: France and in Spain and halfway to where they would
Speaker 1: catch the train to Madrid. And they asked her if
Speaker 1: she was having any problems, and she replied, Cuthbert is
Speaker 1: giving me trouble. And they responded, if Cuthbert is a bother,
Speaker 1: have him eliminated. And of course no one knew that
Speaker 1: Cuthbert was the name of her leg. Virginia felt like
Speaker 1: the worst of her journey was behind her. There was
Speaker 1: only one more stretch to go. In Virginia's hellish hike
Speaker 1: over the Pyrenees Mountains, the group said goodbye to their
Speaker 1: hosts and began their descent into lush, green Spanish valleys. Finally,
Speaker 1: they had crossed the French border and made it into Spain.
Speaker 1: Now they had to be wary of Spanish border guards.
Speaker 1: At this point late in Spain's international allegiances were nebulous. Spain,
Speaker 1: on the other side, of course, was neutral during the war,
Speaker 1: neutral and leaning towards Germany at the beginning. Spain had
Speaker 1: initially declared neutrality in the war, but offered volunteers to
Speaker 1: fight alongside the Germans against the Soviet Union, and sometimes
Speaker 1: they made life difficult for people who came over the mountains.
Speaker 1: In some cases they even sent them back. However, Spain
Speaker 1: was wary of fighting against the US, who was an
Speaker 1: important trade partner, and they were terrified of an assault
Speaker 1: from the British. Virginia wouldn't have to worry about German
Speaker 1: troops on patrol in Spain, though she'd have to scrutinize
Speaker 1: citizens individual loyalties. Virginia's party managed to cross over the
Speaker 1: border without incident and arrived at their destination, the small
Speaker 1: town of San Juan de las avedisas One led them
Speaker 1: to a local safe house. When he informed them that
Speaker 1: he'd be returning the next morning, his departure was anything
Speaker 1: but sentimental. Virginia thanked him with some extra funds. He
Speaker 1: thanked her and returned, and then he was gone. Virginia
Speaker 1: couldn't help but be in awe of his survival skills
Speaker 1: as he disappeared back into the mountains that almost killed her.
Speaker 1: Now they needed to catch a train out of town
Speaker 1: to Barcelona after the break in a scene. The train's
Speaker 1: departure to Barcelon lonac is at the next morning. S
Speaker 1: OE informants had given Virginia this time because they noted
Speaker 1: that the Spanish police didn't patrol the station that early,
Speaker 1: they could easily get through without official passports. If true,
Speaker 1: this would be a break for Virginia, who hadn't had
Speaker 1: time to forge fake documents before fleeing Leone. It wasn't
Speaker 1: the type of careful prep Virginia usually adhered to, you stop,
Speaker 1: but she'd been misinformed. The station did in fact have
Speaker 1: four guards on duty, and they couldn't help but notice
Speaker 1: a limping woman leading around three foreign looking men. They
Speaker 1: were questioned, and when they couldn't provide the proper paperwork,
Speaker 1: all four were arrested at gunpoint. Okay, let's go move it.
Speaker 1: Virginia was separated from the group for questioning because she
Speaker 1: didn't know the men personally, she didn't know their histories.
Speaker 1: The police drilled her for hours. She refused to answer
Speaker 1: the questions, saying only that she wished to speak to
Speaker 1: someone in the American embassy. Her requests were denied. Get
Speaker 1: in there. This is how Virginia Hall came to be
Speaker 1: in a Spanish prison on November, just two trains away
Speaker 1: from safety in London. She had come so far. She
Speaker 1: had built a new resistance faction in France, she had
Speaker 1: stopped numerous German plots and saved numerous British and French lives.
Speaker 1: She had out maneuvered her adversary and Robert lash one
Speaker 1: of the Gestapo's favorite spies, and now she was locked up.
Speaker 1: She feared these local officers would contact others, discover she
Speaker 1: was wanted, and hand her over to the Germans to
Speaker 1: collect the price on her head. She had no moves
Speaker 1: to play, no hidden tools of escape or weapons to
Speaker 1: surprise her captors. It fell like the end of the road.
Speaker 1: All she could do was pray they wouldn't, in fact,
Speaker 1: discover what she really was. And although Virginia Hall was
Speaker 1: a spy of great skill and talent, she had little
Speaker 1: experience with prayer. That was Robert Alesh's expertise. Coming up
Speaker 1: on the next episode of Good Assassins, I want to
Speaker 1: speak to the American embassy. I'm an American. There was
Speaker 1: no way she would survive even if they were able
Speaker 1: to infiltrate her back into the country, and there were
Speaker 1: too many things against her. Interrogation is not something that
Speaker 1: I grow tired of. I mean, by this point, by especially,
Speaker 1: you pretty much know that if you're an active asistance
Speaker 1: and you get caught, you're going to suffer the greatest consequences.
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