The resulting scandal was another blow to the Foreign Office, made all the worse in that it was the Japanese who had discovered and broken up the Sorge spy ring without any German assistance.

At the same time, Raeder worked to promote National Socialist ideology as opposed to the NSDAP in the Navy, ordering in September 1936 that all officers read a tract by Kriegsmarine Commander Siegfried Sorge called Der Marineoffizier about what it took to be a good officer., Sorge had claimed that one could not be a good naval officer without believing in National Socialist values.

Sorge praised Hitler for the Night of the Long Knives, and claimed that if Hitler had been leader in 1918, then the High Seas Fleet mutiny would had been crushed just like Hitler had crushed the alleged SA mutiny of 1934.

Sorge used the examples of Julius Caesar and Ferdinand Magellan using brutal methods to crush mutinies to argue that great leaders throughout history had always used extreme violence to maintain discipline, and through he emphasized that a good officer should never had to be confronted with the threat of mutiny, but if such a threat did emerge, the best thing that could be done was to follow Hitler ’ s example in 1934, and have all the mutineers ’ summarily executed.

The date of 20 June had been given to Sorge by the deputy military attaché, Lieutenant-Colonel Erwin Scholl, at the German embassy in Tokyo.

As Sorge took pride in and sought the credit for the spy ring's work, Professor Prange may have taken Sorge's failure to claim that he had discovered the correct date as conclusive evidence that Sorge in fact did fail to discover it.

The Soviet press reported in 1964 that on June 15, 1941, Sorge had broadcast a dispatch saying that, " The war will begin on June 22.

German ambassador Eugen Ott heard of Sorge's arrest the next day from a brief memo notifying him that Sorge had been arrested " on suspicion of espionage " together with Max Clausen.

He thought that Sorge had been discovered passing secret information on the Japan-US negotiations to the German embassy, and also that the arrest could be due to anti-German elements in the Japanese government.

It was not until a few months later that Japanese authorities announced that Sorge had in fact been indicted as a Soviet spy.

In this book he purports to examine the position of Pacelli, the later Pius XII, towards Adolf Hitler ’ s seizure of power, the downfall of the Catholic Zentrum Party, the Reichskonkordat between Nazi-Germany and the Vatican, the encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge (‘ With Burning Concern ’), paganism, the national-socialist education programs, the ‘ T4-program ’ ( the murder of physically and mentally handicapped persons ), the invasion of Poland, Operation Barbarossa, the Jews in the Netherlands, priest-president Jozef Tiso of Slovakia, the Ustasha in Independent State of Croatia, the deportation of Jews from Rome, the Hungarian Holocaust, the help offered to war criminals, the resistance against Nazism, the alleged refusal of the Church to " give back Jewish " children who had been in hiding, the failures of the Allies, alleged antisemitism after the Holocaust, and the moral question of alleged guilt of the Church and the pope.

Smedley had a sexual relationship with Richard Sorge, a Soviet spymaster, while in Shanghai, and probably with Ozaki Hotsumi, a correspondent for the Asahi Shinbun.

Hede Massing had first met Richard Sorge at the Marxist Workweek in 1923 that led to the establishment of the Frankfurt School.

In her autobiography This Deception, she wrote about Sorge and a meeting they had in New York in 1935.

Stahmer would later replace Ott as ambassador when Richard Sorge, who had been working for Ott in Japan as an agent for the Abwehr, was unmasked as a spy for the Soviet Union in Japan in late 1941.

The central Husserlian concept of the directedness of all thought — intentionality — for example, while scarcely mentioned in Being and Time, has been identified by some with Heidegger's central notion of " Sorge " ( Cura, care or concern ).

Thus we find Marx writing to Sorge in October 1877, following the fusion of the German Social Democrats with the Lassalleans, complaining about the reintroduction of utopian socialism into the movement (" which for tens of years we have been clearing out of the German workers ’ heads with so much toil and labour ") by " a whole gang of half-mature students and super-wise doctors who want to give socialism a “ higher ideal ” orientation, that is to say, to replace its materialistic basis ( which demands serious objective study from anyone who tries to use it ) by modern mythology with its goddesses of Justice, Freedom, Equality and Fraternity.

In October 1941, Ribbentrop ’ s prestige was badly damaged by the discovery of the Soviet spy ring in Tokyo headed by Richard Sorge, who was arrested by the Japanese while in bed with the wife of General Eugen Ott, the German Ambassador.

Officially, Sorge joined the Nazi party and became a German journalist in Tokyo, where he came to work closely with the German embassy and ambassador Eugen Ott.

Eugen Ott ( 8 April 1889 – 22 January 1977 ) was the German ambassador to Japan during the early years of World War II, he is most famously known for having worked with Soviet spy Richard Sorge.

Prange suggests, in his analysis of Richard Sorge, that Sorge was entirely trusted by Ott, and was allowed access to top secret cables from Berlin in the embassy.

* Operations of Richard Sorge, the " Red Orchestra ", Willi Lehmann, and other agents who provided valuable intelligence during World War II.

Richard Sorge ( October 4, 1895 – November 7, 1944 ) was a German communist and spy who worked for the Soviet Union.

She introduced Sorge to Hotsumi Ozaki, who was employed by the Japanese newspaper, Asahi Shimbun.

Pope Pius XI indicated in Mit brennender Sorge ( 1937 ) that it was the Germans who asked for the Concordat and Pope Pius XII affirmed this in 1945.

The Allied spies were also incarcerated there, including Richard Sorge who was hanged in the prison on November 7, 1944.

* Richard Sorge: A Communist Russian spy who existed outside of fiction and plays a prominent role towards the end of the story.

She introduced Sorge to Ozaki, who became Sorge's most important informant in Japan.

Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby, who served with Gen. Douglas MacArthur's chief of intelligence, claimed Smedley was a member of the anti-Japanese Sorge spy ring.

Fujita's character was inspired by the real-life Hotsumi Ozaki, who assisted the famous Soviet spy Richard Sorge and so became the only Japanese citizen to suffer the death penalty for treason during World War Two.

Most notably, early in 1937, Pacelli asked several German cardinals, including Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber to help him write a protest of Nazi violations of the Reichskonkordat ; this was to become Pius XI's 1937 encyclical, Mit brennender Sorge.

In an essay for the Neue Rundschau in 1953, " Richard Sorge: der fast vollkommene Spion " she called him a " near-perfect spy.

Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf was never put on the Index, even though Hitler was the target of the Papal Bull Mit Brennender Sorge while the works of other less famous authors, including at least one saint ( St. Faustina Kowalska ), were.

Sorge was born in the settlement of Sabunchi, a suburb of Baku, Azerbaijan, which was part of Imperial Russia at the time.

Sorge received a Ph. D. in political science at the University of Hamburg in August 1919.

Collecting intelligence from inside Germany was more dangerous and difficult at the time, so Sorge was sent to Japan to collect information on Germany's plans.

* an acquaintance with Agnes Smedley whilst Hollis was in Shanghai, at a time when Smedley was in a relationship with Richard Sorge, a proven Soviet spymaster.

Kirst's non-World War II themed novels included The Seventh Day ( 1957 ), a nuclear holocaust story that received worldwide acclaim and was dubbed " so convincing, that it doesn't seem like fiction at all ," and Die letzte Karte spielt der Tod ( 1955 ), a fictional account of the life of Soviet spy Richard Sorge, published in the United States as The Last Card and in the United Kingdom as Death Plays the Last Card.

Sorge studied political science from 1989 to 1997 at the University of Frankfurt.

* Sarah Sorge at Humboldt University

Among the participants at the week-long session were Georg Lukács, Karl Korsch, Richard Sorge, Friedrich Pollock, Karl August Wittfogel, Bela Fogarasi, Karl Schmuckle, and Konstantin Zetkin, the younger of the two sons of socialist leader and feminist Clara Zetkin.