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    The Abwehr (German for resistance or defence, though the word usually means counterintelligence in a military context; pronounced [ˈapveːɐ̯]) was the German...
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    Wilhelm Canaris (category Abwehr personnel killed in World War II)
    January 1887 – 9 April 1945) was a German admiral and the chief of the Abwehr (the German military-intelligence service) from 1935 to 1944. Canaris was...
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    Oskar Schindler (category Abwehr personnel of World War II)
    up in Zwittau, Moravia, and worked in several trades until he joined the Abwehr, the military intelligence service of Nazi Germany, in 1936. He joined the...
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  • from the United Kingdom and unify Ireland, shared intelligence with the Abwehr, the military intelligence service of Nazi Germany, during the Second World...
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    Hans Oster (category Abwehr personnel killed in World War II)
    from 1938 to 1943. As deputy head of the counter-espionage bureau in the Abwehr (German military intelligence), Oster was in a good position to conduct...
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    tried along with other accused plotters, including former members of the Abwehr (the German Military Intelligence Office). He was hanged on 9 April 1945...
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  • instructed to contact agents who, unknown to the Abwehr, were controlled by the British. The Abwehr and SD sent agents over by parachute drop, submarine...
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    on 13 February 1943, Green became an irrelevance. Despite the fact that Abwehr intelligence-gathering in Ireland had not begun until mid-1939, Green was...
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    Sudetenland. It was led by Generalmajor Hans Oster, deputy head of the Abwehr, and other high-ranking conservatives within the Wehrmacht who opposed the...
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    Helmuth Groscurth (category Abwehr personnel of World War II)
    Helmuth Groscurth (16 December 1898 – 7 April 1943) was a German staff and Abwehr officer in the Wehrmacht and a member of the German resistance. As an intelligence...
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  • serving in the British Army volunteered for recruitment and selection by Abwehr II and the German Army. The camp was designated Stalag XX-A (301) and located...
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  • Thadden. The group's downfall also ultimately led to the demise of the Abwehr in February 1944. Hanna Solf was the widow of Dr. Wilhelm Solf, who served...
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  • nominally neutral Spanish government shared copies of the documents with the Abwehr, the German military intelligence organisation, before returning the originals...
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  • Eddie Chapman "ZigZag" English Double-Cross System Infiltrated the German Abwehr during World War II whilst feeding intelligence to MI5. He was so trusted...
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  • Hugo Bleicher (category Abwehr personnel of World War II)
    Bleicher (August 9, 1899–August, 1982) was a sergeant in Nazi Germany's Abwehr (military intelligence agency) assigned to the Geheime Feldpolizei (secret...
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    Brandenburgers (category Abwehr)
    extension of the military's intelligence and counter-espionage organ, the Abwehr. Members of this unit took part in seizing operationally important targets...
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    Duško Popov (category Abwehr personnel of World War II)
    August 1981) was a Serbian, a double agent who served as part of the MI6 and Abwehr during World War II. He passed off disinformation to Germany as part of...
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  • Kriegsmarine M3, M4 No No EnigmAndroid Android Wehrmacht I, Kriegsmarine M3, M4, Abwehr G31, G312, G260, D, K, Swiss-K, KD, R, T No No Andy Carlson Enigma Applet...
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    Plan Kathleen (category Abwehr)
    Ireland, and he wanted to re-establish the IRA link with German Intelligence (Abwehr) to secure arms and money. The courier for transporting the plan to Germany...
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  • John Codd (category Abwehr personnel of World War II)
    World War II, who went on to serve in the German Intelligence service (Abwehr) and the Sicherheitsdienst, the foreign intelligence arm of the SS. Codd...
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    which the US was codenamed "Samland" by the German intelligence agency Abwehr. The term was central in the song "The Yankee Doodle Boy", which was featured...
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    Heinz Lüning (category Abwehr personnel killed in World War II)
    Heinz August Adolf Sirich Lüning was an espionage agent who spied for the Abwehr in Cuba during World War II and was later executed by Cuba. It is unclear...
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  • during the Second World War. He was working for MI5 while appearing to the Abwehr (the German intelligence agency) to be one of their agents. Owens was known...
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    German minority working in conjunction with the German intelligence agency (Abwehr) attacked the Polish garrison. Polish soldiers and civilians reacted with...
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  • rescue of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Admiral Canaris, head of the Abwehr, is ordered to make a feasibility study into capturing the British Prime...
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  • to Stern, who was then working as an accountant for Schindler's fellow Abwehr agent Josef "Sepp" Aue, who had gained control of Stern's formerly Jewish-owned...
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  • Erich Vermehren (category Abwehr personnel of World War II)
    December 1919 – 28 April 2005) was an ardent anti-Nazi, an agent of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence organization, and later a leading Catholic...
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    agreed to assist them. Renken was in fact Major Nickolaus Ritter of the Abwehr. After the threats to his family, his life, and his citizenship, Sebold...
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    (16 May 1884 – 30 June 1934) was a German Generalmajor and head of the Abwehr (the military intelligence service) in the Reich Defence Ministry and deputy...
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  • head of German military intelligence, the Abwehr Generalmajor Hans Oster 1887–1945, deputy head of the Abwehr Generalmajor Henning von Tresckow (1901–1944)...
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