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Richard Sorge (Russian: Рихард Густавович Зорге, romanized: Rikhard Gustavovich Zorge; 4 October 1895 – 7 November 1944) was a German journalist and Soviet military intelligence officer who was active before and during World War II and worked undercover as a German journalist in both Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan.
- Germany 1914–1916, USSR 1920–1941
Apr 9, 2024 · Richard Sorge was a German press correspondent who headed a successful Soviet espionage ring in Tokyo during World War II. After service in the German Army during World War I, he earned a doctorate in political science at the University of Hamburg, Germany, joining the Communist Party of Germany in.
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Nov 5, 2009 · On November 7, 1944, Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German Soviet spy, who had used the cover of a German journalist to report on Germany and Japan for the Soviet Union, is hanged by his...
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Soviet master spy Richard Sorge in 1940. Arriving in the Soviet capital in late 1924, Sorge was charged with setting up an intelligence network. In 1925, he joined the Soviet Communist Party and also became a Soviet citizen, a fact that was never reported to German authorities.
Apr 20, 2019 · A rollicking biography of Richard Sorge, a master Soviet spy. His intelligence on Operation Barbarossa may have proved decisive for the outcome of the second world war. Apr 20th 2019. An...
Mar 22, 2019 · Richard Sorge was the Soviet spy who stole one of the biggest secrets of the second world war: the precise details of Hitler’s invasion of the USSR in June 1941.
Apr 6, 2024 · Richard Sorge was a Soviet agent, arguably one of history’s most successful, who worked his craft from the 1930s until the first years of World War II. Apr 6, 2024 • By Matt Whittaker, BA History & Asian Studies. Born to a German engineer and his Russian wife in 1895, Sorge lived his first years in Baku, a part of the Russian Empire.
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