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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 50. Chapters: Red Orchestra (espionage), Klaus Fuchs, Karl Koch, Erich Mielke, Richard Sorge, Bernhard Bastlein, Alexander Rado, Martha Dodd, Hermann Scherchen, Charles Spaak, Mildred Harnack, Robert Uhrig, Harro Schulze-Boysen, Charlotte Bischoff, Markus Hess, Kurt Schumacher, Jacques Duclos, Arvid Harnack, Beppo Romer, John Sieg, Libertas Schulze-Boysen, Paul Massing, Cato Bontjes van Beek, Fritz Lange, Rudolf Herrnstadt, Leopold Trepper, Suzanne Spaak, Eva Sandberg, Hans Coppi, Ilse Stobe, Robert Havemann, Elisabeth Schumacher, Robert Rene Kuczynski, Willi Lehmann, Jan Valtin, Werner Dissel, Fritz Cremer, Heinrich Koenen, Liane Berkowitz, Erich Kordt, Alexander Foote, Heinz Felfe, Hilde Coppi, Erika von Brockdorff, Maria Terwiel, Eva-Maria Buch, Ursula Kuczynski, Rudolf Roessler, Adam Kuckhoff, Wilhelm Guddorf, Rudolf von Scheliha, Helmut Roloff, Hans Clemens, Pierre Villon, Jules Humbert-Droz, Hermann Bose. Excerpt: Erich Fritz Emil Mielke (December 28, 1907 - May 21, 2000) was a German communist politician and Minister of State Security-and as such head of the Stasi (secret police)-of the German Democratic Republic between 1957 and 1989. Mielke spent more than a decade as an operative of the NKVD during the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin. He was one of the perpetrators of the Great Purge as well as the Stalinist decimation of the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. Following the 1945 Battle of Berlin, Mielke returned to Germany and had a major role in organizing the Soviet Zone into a dictatorship under the Socialist Unity Party. For nearly fifty years, he held the military rank of Armeegeneral. After German reunification, he was tried and convicted of murdering police officers Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck in 1931. In handwritten biographies written for Stalin's secret police, Mielke described his background as...
