Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations.

He escaped the Stalinist purges with support from Soviet military intelligence one of the few forces still relatively immune from Stalin's influence and where the influence of old BolLeopold Trepperviks remained strong. After his release he returned to Poland to his wife and three sons. He was identified as a communist agent and expelled in 1929.

The Nazis named it the Red Orchestra (Die Rote Kapelle). A few years before a book about the Red Orchestra containing interviews with both Soviets and Nazis had appeared written by Gilles Perrault. " "No" on one condition: that people understand the lesson of my life as a communist and a revolutionary and do not turn themselves over to a deified party.