Josef Jakobs Josef Jakobs Josef Jakobs (30 June 1898 – 15 August 1941) was a German spy and the last person to be executed at the Tower of London. He was captured shortly after parachuting into the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Convicted of espionage under the Treachery Act 1940, Jakobs was shot by a military firing squad. He was not hanged because he was captured as an enemy combatant. Jakobs, who was a German citizen, was born in Luxembourg in 1898. During the First World War, he served in the German infantry, rising to the rank of "Leutnant", in
Message to Adolf memo he wrote earlier absolves Toge of wrongdoing, and the Japanese police stop chasing him. To avoid further heat, the documents are passed to Ogi and then to Kamil, who is now living with Eliza. In 1941 with the German surprise attack on the Soviets, Toge decides that the documents would be best in the hands of Honda, a Japanese general's son working for a Soviet spy ring under Richard Sorge. Before Honda can send the documents to the Soviets, Sorge is captured and the spy ring collapses. Before Honda is executed by his father after confessing to treason, he