History's Secret Heroes: Series 2: Manfred Gans and X Troop

History's Heroes

BBC

Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Manfred Gans joins an elite, secret unit of Jewish commandos to take on the Nazis with advanced fighting and counterintelligence skills. But can he save his own family?

Helena Bonham Carter shines a light on extraordinary stories from World War Two. Join her for incredible tales of deception, acts of resistance and courage.

A BBC Studios Audio production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

Producer: Suniti Somaiya Assistant Producer: Lorna Reader Executive Producer: Paul Smith Written by Alex von Tunzelmann Commissioning editor for Radio 4: Rhian Roberts

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0:00.0	He tells her that she will be sent to France as a secret agent, and if she's caught, she's going to be shot.
0:09.3	I'm Helen Obalam Carter, and this is history's secret heroes, where I shine a light on extraordinary stories from World War II.
0:17.6	What they wanted was someone to get themselves arrested and sent to Auschwitz.
0:22.0	Tales of deception, an incredible acts of resistance and courage.
0:26.3	She was a born soldier.
0:27.4	She's a freedom fighter in its widest sense.
0:29.9	The brand new series of History's secret heroes.
0:32.8	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:36.1	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:41.0	Autumn, 1942, Abadavis Station, Wales.
0:45.8	A train pulled up at the platform, carrying a group of German men.
0:50.2	These men were not prisoners of war, but refugees from the Nazis.
0:55.1	And as they get off the train, they're met by a young commanding officer.
1:00.1	The British officer told them to line up.
1:02.2	Then, he said,
1:03.3	Men, you need to come up with new names, and you have about five minutes to do so.
1:09.7	As their minds whirled with this,
1:11.8	the men were ushered into an airless, cramped room.
1:15.4	None of them quite realized that these names
1:18.2	that they were about to come up with
1:20.1	would be the names that most of them would end up keeping
1:22.7	for the rest of their lives,
	...

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