Ilse Stebe is a German working for the Soviet Union.
As you know, Stirlitz is the collective image, a symbol of Soviet intelligence, who worked in the name of the struggle against fascism. In fact, in Europe operated a network of Soviet agents, who received in the postwar years, the name “Red orchestra”. The fate of many of its agents was tragic, a good example is the story of Ilse Stebe, the scouts who had collaborated with the Soviet Union. She passed the information on the preparation of the plan “Barbarossa”, but was arrested by the Germans and suffered terrible torture, in silence. Order of the red banner, the heroine was awarded posthumously.
As you know, Stirlitz is the collective image, a symbol of Soviet intelligence, who worked in the name of the struggle against fascism. In fact, in Europe operated a network of Soviet agents, who received in the postwar years, the name “Red orchestra”. The fate of many of its agents was tragic, a good example is the story of Ilse Stebe, the scouts who had collaborated with the Soviet Union. She passed the information on the preparation of the plan “Barbarossa”, but was arrested by the Germans and suffered terrible torture, in silence. Order of the red banner, the heroine was awarded posthumously.
Ilse Stebe – the German. She was educated at the commercial College, and after has achieved significant success in the field of journalism. After the graduation, the school girl has gone from an employee of the advertising Department to the Secretary of the chief editor, and then became a reporter and wrote from Czechoslovakia and Poland. Ilse has always distinguished anti-fascist views, which is why she later went to work for the Soviet Union.
In exploration Ilse led Rudolf Herrnstadt, Polish journalist-colleague. The girl was a fine professional and after the Nazis came to power, was instructed to join the ranks of the NSDAP. At this time, Lisa worked under the pseudonym “Arnim”, its task was to collect as many contacts for future recruitment. Performances Stebe in the press were so convincing that the Polish media people insisted, to deny it entry into the country because of the propaganda of Nazism.
One of the key agents recruited by ILSA, was an employee of the German foreign Ministry, Rudolf von Shelia. He helped Lisa to get a seat in the press service of the foreign Ministry. The cooperation of the scouts lasted a long time, it Shelia passed on the information that Herman is preparing a plan of attack on the Soviet Union. Through the efforts of Ilse this information was passed to Moscow.
German counterintelligence has made efforts to expose Soviet agents. In Brussels was destroyed the headquarters of radio transmitters. Despite this, ILSA continued to lead a group of scouts and transmit information. Her arrest occurred on September 12, 1942 on the day of engagement to Carl Helfrich, another agent working for the USSR.
Ilse tortured 7 terrible and infinitely long weeks, but she didn’t utter a word and was not given any of his accomplices. During this time in the hands of the Gestapo came and von Shelia. He gave all the information about aiding the Soviet Union and about working with Ilse. This forced her to admit in connection with the background of Shelia. However, no other information to extract failed. 14 Dec Ilse Stebe was sentenced to death by guillotine. About her exploits as the exploits of all the “red chapel” became known only many years later. In 1969 were declassified materials about the participation of scouts in the great Patriotic war, then Ilse and 31 of the reconnaissance party received high state awards. 29 people from the list got awarded order of the red banner posthumously.
