Richard Sorge
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Richard Gustavovich Sorge 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 Germa
Sorge before 1941
House in Sabunchu, Azerbaijan, in which Sorge lived from 1895 to 1898
Sorge (left) and chemist Erich Correns during World War I in 1915
Sorge in the hospital after his injury during the First World War
Sugamo Prison
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Sugamo Prison was a prison in Tokyo, Japan. It was located in the district of Ikebukuro, which is now part of the Toshima ward.
Richard Sorge
…was not until a few months later that Japanese authorities announced that Sorge had actually been indicted as a Soviet agent. He was incarcerated in Sugamo Prison. Initially, the Japanese believed, because of his Nazi Party membership and German ties, that Sorge was an Abwehr agent. However, the Abwehr denied it…
Sugamo Prison in December 1948
Sugamo Prison in 1945
Mug shot of Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Tokyo Rose, taken at Sugamo Prison in March 1946
Photograph sheet of 28 suspected war criminals