The home of the man accused of betraying British secrets to Russia is a bizarre shrine to the Soviet state, it has emerged.
David Smith, 57, is currently languishing in a German cell accused of selling secrets to the Russians.
But in his quiet corner of Potsdam, a city on the edge of the sprawling capital Berlin, he was well known for his love of all things Russian.
Pictures taken inside his modest ground floor flat show it littered with everything from the modern Russian flag to bookshelves stacked with tomes on the history of the nation and it's battles in WWII.
There are also books about the Nazis including two on Hitler's dreaded SS 12th Panzer Division which committed war crimes.
These are bizarrely squeezed alongside teddy bears and spy novels by John le Carr é and books by infamous conspiracy theorist David Icke.
Outside the flat Smith's old, battered, silver Ford Fiesta remains still parked and it was pointed put how his licence plate showed off his obsession with Russia.
It read B:RU1801, which it was speculated could be a nod to Russia and the year Tsar Alexander I came to power during the Napoleonic Wars.
He is a hero in the country for ousting Napoleon from Russia and is worshipped in certain far right circles.
Other memorabilia on show inside his flat included Soviet military caps showing hammer and sickle emblems on a red star surrounded by a wreath.
There are also military insignias of the Russian Baltic, Black Sea, Northern, and Pacific fleets, and a Russian military insignia which partially reads 'technical battalion'.
The 57-year-old's home was the subject of a search lasting hours as special officers collected evidence, and finding John Le Carre's Cold War spy novel A Murder of Quality and at least three Soviet military caps.
A Soviet-era military hat can be seen on the head of a cuddly toy Rottweiler dog.
Photos also show other memorabilia includes insignias of the Russian Baltic, Black Sea, Northern, and Pacific fleets, and a Russian military insignia.
Smith had First World War history books, including several in German, and Red Partisan - a memoir of a Soviet resistance fighter behind enemy lines in WW2.
Other titles on his book shelves were A Military History of Germany, Für Volk and Führer: The Memoir of a Veteran of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte, The Somme, Dieppe 1942, Antony Beevor's Berlin, Fighters and Bombers, Eastern Front Combat, For The Homeland, Frontline Ukraine, and Red Road from Stalingrad.
The biography of Reinhard Heydrich - the SS official and main instigator behind the Holocaust - was also visible, as was Operation Bodenplatte about the Luftwaffe's last ditch attack on Allied air forces in 1945.
The flat contained plenty of other non-military items, including three volumes of books on embroidery and others on psychology and one titled Sex. The Complete Illustrated Guide. There was also a PlayStation.
It comes after reports describing Smith as a "bald, stocky" man who holds "extreme" far right views.
Neighbours have said he is "friendly, smiley and polite", and drives a Ford Fiesta.
He was seized on Tuesday in a joint operation by British Counter Terror Command and German security operatives.
He is suspected of selling secret documents from the embassy to Russian spies for money and is thought to have come under suspicion from MI5.
Sources said the operation to arrest him was “intelligence-led” and took several weeks.
He appeared before an investigating judge at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe on Wednesday where he was ordered to remain under arrest pending further inquiries.
