Ilse Stöbe
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Ilse Frieda Gertrud Stöbe was a German left-wing journalist, Soviet GRU agent and anti-Nazi resistance fighter. As a young woman, Stöbe was exposed to communist ideology through her parents. After her
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Memorial plaque, Frankfurter Allee 233, in Lichtenberg, Berlin
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Heinrich Koenen
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Heinrich Koenen was a German engineer, anti-fascist resistance fighter and agent of the Soviet military intelligence service GRU, known as a "scout".
Ilse Stöbe
…and executed on 22 December 1942 in the Plötzensee Prison in Berlin, she by guillotine and he by hanging from a meathook. The Soviet agent, Heinrich Koenen, who had landed in Germany by parachute, was arrested at her house by a waiting Gestapo official. The Nazi German tradition of Sippenhaft led to the…
Heinrich Koenen