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The name of Willy Rudolf Foerster (″Willi Förster″) is also (shortly) mentioned in the book ″The Case of Richard Sorge″ by F. W. Deakin and G. R. Storry (pp. 310f.). The authors don’t cite any sources. It seems that they used interviews and/or former files of the German Foreign Office or the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) for their version about Foerster. They wrongly assume that his business was producing ″aircraft propellers″. They state that Foerster was ″an anti-Nazi″, that his office was ″a meeting place for anti-Axis foreigners, and under surveillance by the Japanese police″, but they don’t mention that he rescued Jewish refugees, was pursued by Josef Meisinger and other German authorities and was fraudulently denounced to the Japanese. Instead they repeated in 1966 (during the Cold War) unreflected the ″Gestapo-version″ about Foerster being ″thought to have been a member of the German Communist Party″ and ″vaguely suspected″ by the Nazi Party ″being a Comintern agent″.--Vista80 (talk) 13:42, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]