At the spring of 1941 Nazi Germany controlled the majority of the European mainland.

They had forces in Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France,

Yugoslavia, and Greece.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill understood that boots on the ground were only one piece

of the puzzle to drive out the enemy.

In order to sabotage German operations across Europe, he knew Britain needed to build

an army of secret agents.

And one of its most successful leaders was a Romanian-born Jewish woman.

Welcome to episode 7 of How Women One World War Two.

I'm Sharon McMahon, and here's where it gets interesting.

64 Baker Street in Central London is a non-descript building.

It is a boxy six-story frame with a drab stone facade.

So perhaps it's unassuming appearance was one of the reasons why it became the headquarters

of one of Britain's best-capped secrets.

And yes, I'm talking about the same Baker Street that was made famous by Sir Arthur

Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, who lived up the road at 221B Baker Street.

Arthur 64, however, was home to the real-life Baker Street Ericulars and became a revolving

door of Britain's most talented intelligence officers.

The officers were called the Baker Street Ericulars as a non-too-doils fiction, but they

went by a few other names too.

Churchill's secret army, or my personal favorite, the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

Officially, the men and women who worked out of 64 Baker Street were known as Special

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