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The Case of Colonel Redl (German: Der Fall des Generalstabs-Oberst Redl) is a 1931 Czechoslovak spy drama film directed by Karl Anton in German language. It stars Theodor Loos, Lil Dagover and Otto Hartmann.
Sep 9, 2016 · Colonel Alfred Redl became Russia’s leading spy, as he was the most effective and the highly ranked within the Austro-Hungarian military. He delivered the Russians Plan III, which was the elaborate plan for the invasion of the Kingdom of Serbia.
In 1950, senator McCarthy brought up the case of Alfred Redl in an influential speech at the outset of the Lavender Scare, in which gay employees of the State Department were fired. McCarthy believed the Redl case illustrated that "the pervert is easy prey to the blackmailer," and that therefore homosexuals should be banned from working for the ...
Oct 13, 1985 · Chroniclers of the last days of the Hapsburg Empire, as well as historians of espionage ranging from the Central Intelligence Agency's Allen Dulles to the Soviet Union's Gen. Mikhail Milstein,...
Feb 10, 2021 · Background: Alfred Redl, a colonel in the Imperial and Royal General Staff and Deputy Director of Military Intelligence for the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was a leading figure of pre-World War I spying. The "spy of the century," as he has been called, died by suicide in Vienna on May 25, 1913.
Feb 15, 2021 · This paper aims to peel back the layers of the mythology, and to deconstruct what we mean by treason and homosexuality in the case of Colonel Redl. It argues on the one hand that Redl was a very unusual traitor amidst a mass of treasons in the late Habsburg empire.
Alfred Redl. The Habsburg Arch-Spy — De-mythologized — by Siegfried Beer. Introduction. e quintessential Austrian spy case. It was the last major scandal felt across the Dual Habsburg Monarchy and beyond, until the assassination at Sarajevo of Arch-duke Ferdinand on June 28, .
