Born in 1895, Richard Sorge fought, with great bravery, for Germany during the First World War, receiving the Iron Cross medal. He was wounded and while recuperating in hospital began a relationship with a nurse.

Richard Sorge Embraces Communism

Spartacus Educational notes that, “…he met and was influenced by the [nurse’s] Marxist father. Not fit enough to return to the frontline, Sorge was allowed to study at Berlin University. Later he recalled that he now ‘decided not only to study, but also to take part in the organized revolutionary movement.’ ”

After joining the German Communist Party he was fired from his job as a teacher. He fled to Moscow and was quickly recruited as an espionage agent.

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