Richard Sorge Executed by Japanese Captors, Soviet Spy Ring Hanged November 7, 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.
Date: November 7, 1944
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