Bernhard Rogge was born in Germany in 1899, in 1915 during WWI he
joined the imperial German navy (the Kaiserliche Marine) served in WWI
and won the Iron Cross in second and first class, after the war he
served in various cruisers.
From the mid 30es until 1939 he commanded the German Navy's sail
training ship "Albert Leo Schlageter", in September 1939 he was
assigned to the Hilfskreuzer (auxiliary cruiser) "Atlantis", the
"Atlantis" capture or sink 21 ships, in one of those ships captured
Rogge found top-secret documents about the defenses of the port of
Singapore and pass it to the Japanese for those action he won the
Knights Cross with Oak Leaves and a samurai sword from the emperor of
Japan, after the sinking of the "Atlantis" in 22 November 1941 Rogge
spend the rest of the war in Germany and by the end of it he achieved
the rank of Vizeadmiral.
In 1957 he joined the West German navy the Bundesmarine as a
Konteradmiral and retire from it in 1962, he died in 1982 in
Germany.
Under Ten Flags(1960)
Nazi Collaborators(2010)as Self