# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-sorge
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:37:14.309Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Richard Sorge was born in 1895, a German-Russian who became a Soviet military intelligence officer working under the codename "Ramsay." He went undercover as a German journalist, first in Nazi Germany and later in the Empire of Japan. In 1940 and '41, from Tokyo, he passed word of Hitler's coming invasion of the Soviet Union — then, in mid-September 1941, sent the message that mattered most: Japan would not open a second front in the near future. A month later Japanese authorities arrested him for espionage. He was tortured, forced to confess, and tried. Stalin refused to intervene. Sorge was hanged in November 1944, and the Soviet Union named him Hero twenty years later.