History Channel - Dead Mens Secrets Set 2 (2002) Part 10 Stalin's Spy Ring Red Spies Against the Axis

Dead men don't tell tales - or do they? Are there forensic clues left in the sands of time? Are there traces of archive film which even today are waiting to unveil their grisly secret? Not all the captivating and fascinating stories of military escapades in the 20th Century have been fully examined and many fascinating insights are still to be revealed and told. These have been known until now as DEADMEN'S SECRETS. Who really was 'The Man Who Never Was'? This and many other fascinating questions are answered in this pivotal series entitled DEADMEN'S SECRETS. With newly discovered archive film and new state of the art 3D computer graphics the series sets out to answer some of the most baffling questions and war mysteries of the 20th Century. What was the truth about Odessa File and whatever happened to Raoul Wallenberg? What did the Oslo Report reveal and who wrote it? And how close was Hitler to developing the atomic bomb at the end of World War II? Some of the answers are both frightening and unexpected. With the release of new Government information on both sides of the Atlantic it is now possible to painstakingly reconstruct some of the most famous mysteries of recent military history. DEADMEN'S SECRETS is the first serious attempt this Century to lay some of the last Century's most puzzling ghosts to rest.

Part 10 Stalin's Spy Ring Red Spies Against the Axis

The story of the Red Orchestra, a secret Soviet intelligence organization which has one aim - to bring down Hitler. This programme reveals the most effective espionage operations of the war, detailing their successes. A steady drip of crucial information made its way out of Germany and over to Russia during the course of WWII. Despite the Nazi's best efforts, they could not stop this stream of vital secrets. The source was an affiliation of spies and agents known as the “Red Orchestra” and the score they composed struck directly at the heart of Hitler's Reich. The Red Orchestra was a group of people from nations worldwide, united by their faith in Communism. These spies risked their lives to procure intelligence from the heart of Germany, and many paid the price. See how the Gestapo captured, tortured and killed many operatives and why this had little overall effect. As they were captured and tortured by the Gestapo, the spy rings fell apart, but they had provided information with such startling accuracy, that today many people believe there must have been a Communist spy in the highest echelons of Nazi government. Who could it have been? We follow the stories of Red Orchestra members and attempt to track their superspy.

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