Marika Rökk, who was banned from acting for two years for her apparent closeness to the Nazi regime, had in fact been working from the 1940s onwards for a reconnaissance network passing Third Reich secrets to Moscow, according to the Guardian newspaper.
When in Tass, I worked together with the famous Soviet war-time spy, Yan Chernyak.
Born to a Jewish family in the town of Czernowitz in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1909, Chernyak created in Germany during WWII a network of spies, which included Marika Rökk, Olga Chekhova and other well-known persons of the Third Reich.
His one-time nickname was “man without a shadow”.
