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Red
Orchestra
SYNOPSIS
Leopold Trepper, a Polish Jew, began his militant activities in 1923. As a young idealistic man,
he immigrated to Palestine where his communist activities landed him in jail and ultimately in
his deportation by the order of the British Governor.
He spent several years in Paris, where he was a communist activist and the editor of a Yiddish
newspaper, before leaving for the Soviet Union.
As the threat of Nazism spread throughout Europe, Trepper volunteered for the Red Army
Intelligence Service. As a Soviet agent, he set up an ingenious and successful business
enterprise to cover up the spy net activities. The network operated throughout occupied
Western Europe, as well as in Germany, until its ultimate fall.
The Gestapo finally caught up with him in occupied France. After his arrest, he kept
manipulating the Nazi intelligence machine by participating in their Radio Game that was
designed to mislead the Soviet intelligence. Taking advantage of a breach in security, he
managed to escape. An aggressive pursuit by the Gestapo came to an end with Paris' liberation.
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