![Request by Rudolf Rössler for the issuance of an identity card, 1938.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/titel-rossler-300x225.jpg)
A spy called Lucie
Rudolf Rössler was a mild-mannered journalist who ran a publishing firm in Lucerne. At the same time, he was supplying the Soviets with highly sensitive information straight from the Führer’s headquarters. The story of the master spy Lucie.
![In 1967 Rudolf Rössler graced the cover of German magazine ‘Der Spiegel’.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/cover-spiegel-220x300.jpg)
![Xaver Schnieper, photographed in 1967.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/schnieper-223x300.jpg)
![Information from ‘Lucie’ had a significant impact on the tank battle of Kursk.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/panzerschlacht-1943-300x170.jpg)
![Roger Masson, photographed in 1944.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/roger-masson-233x300.jpg)
![Hans Hausamann (right) with General Guisan, around 1940.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/hausamann-1-228x300.jpg)
Dora, Rosa, Maud, Eduard and Jim
![Alexander Radolfi, also known as Rado, was head of the Soviet intelligence service in Switzerland from 1938.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/radolfi-269x300.jpg)
![Franz Halder in a 1939 photograph.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/franz-halder-260x300.jpg)
![Trial of Rudolf Rössler (front) and Xaver Schnieper, in Lucerne in 1953. Both were sentenced to several months in prison.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/gerichtsprozess-300x245.jpg)