Sorge was recruited as a spy for the Soviet Union and using the cover of being a journalist he was sent to various European countries to assess the possibility of communist uprisings taking place.

Pacelli is credited with changing the title from Mit großer Sorge ( With great concern ) to the more strident Mit brennender Sorge ( With burning concern ).

Sorge had been a close friend of General Ott, who had given him a free rein at the Tokyo Embassy, and thus allowed him to pass along all sorts of German secrets to Moscow.

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.

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.

Richard Sorge alerted Moscow that Japan would attack the Soviet Union from the East as soon as the German army captured any city on the Volga, thus effectively disrupting oil supplies from Baku and also ammunition and food supplies sent by the allies from the Persian Gulf through Iran, Soviet Azerbaijan and up the Volga river.

From 1925 through 1945, over 70, 000 people were arrested under the provisions of the Public Security Preservation Law of 1925, but only about 10 % reached trial, and the death penalty was only imposed on two offenders, spy Richard Sorge and his informant Ozaki Hotsumi.

Three rivers run through the municipality: the Venoge, Sorge and Chamberonne.

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.

Gordon Prange's analysis ( 1984 ) was that the closest Sorge came to predicting the launch date of Operation Barbarossa was 20 June 1941 and Prange comments that Sorge himself never claimed to have discovered the correct date ( 22 June ) in advance.

Although Sorge considered Friedrich Adolf Sorge, an associate of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, to be his grandfather, he was in fact his great-uncle.

Pius XI's encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge ( 1937 ) protested what it perceived to be violations of the Reichskonkordat.

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.

The NKVD received the same report from Richard Sorge, its spy in Tokyo, but with a most significant extra paragraph that Hitler might seek peace with the Soviet Union.

* 1944 – Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.

He then devoted himself to fiction, beginning with a collection of naturalistic short stories called Im Zwielicht (" At Twilight ", 1886 ), and the novels Frau Sorge (" Dame Care ", 1887 ), Geschwister (" Siblings ", 1888 ) and Der Katzensteg (" Cats ' Bridge ", 1890 ).

In November 1929 Sorge returned to Germany where he was instructed to join the Nazi Party and not to associate with left-wing activists.

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.

Sorge supplied the Soviet Red Army with information about the Anti-Comintern Pact, the German-Japanese Pact and warned of the Pearl Harbor attack.

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 ).

* 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.

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.

Together with Munich's Cardinal Faulhaber and Berlin's Bishop Preysing, he drafted Pius XI's encyclical Mit brennender Sorge ( 14 March 1937 ).

Moreover, van der Leeuw recognizes that, although dreadful, Being-in-the-world is fundamentally characterized as care ( Sorge ), the existential structure whereby Dasein is concerned with meaningful relationships in the world alongside other beings.

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.

Among IPR staffers identified later as Communists or collaborators with Soviet intelligence agents were Kathleen Barnes, Hilda Austern, Elsie Fairfax-Cholmely, Chi Chao-ting, Guenter Stein, Harriet Levine, Talitha Gerlach, Chen Han-seng ( a member of the Sorge spy ring ), Michael Greenberg ( named as a source in 1945 by defecting Soviet courier Elizabeth Bentley ), and T. A.

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.

The 47 questions by the six scholars were grouped into three parts: ( a ) 27 specific questions on existing documents, mostly asking for background and additional information such as drafts of the encyclical Mit brennender Sorge, which was largely written by Eugenio Pacelli.

Influential editorial writers of Asahi such as Shintarō Ryū, Hiroo Sassa, and Hotsumi Ozaki ( an informant for the famous spy Richard Sorge ) were the center members of the Shōwa Kenkyūkai, which was a political think tank for Konoe.

Occasionally, the official texts are published in a modern language, including such well-known texts as the motu proprio Tra le sollecitudini ( 1903 ) by Pope Pius X ( in Italian ) and Mit brennender Sorge ( 1937 ) by Pope Pius XI ( in German ).

Educated Germans such as Joseph Wedemeyer, Oswald Ottendorfer and Friedrich Sorge were important players in the creation and growth of trade unions, and many Germans and their Vereine ( German-American clubs ) were also often politically active.