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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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    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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    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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    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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  • purposes was realised. Of the agents from the German intelligence services, Abwehr and Sicherheitsdienst (SD), some were apprehended, while many of the agents...
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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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    Brandenburgers (category Abwehr)
    and operated as an extension of the military's intelligence organ, the Abwehr. Members of this unit took part in seizing operationally important targets...
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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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  • 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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    Duško Popov (category Abwehr personnel of World War II)
    August 1981) was a Serbian 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • pursued across France by SS Obersturmbannführer Lutzig (Philip Madoc) and Abwehr Sgt. Gratz (Robert Hardy), a complex psychological character who, it is...
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    carried out by Spanish and Gibraltarian agents acting on behalf of the German Abwehr. Inside the Rock of Gibraltar itself, miles of tunnels were excavated from...
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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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  • 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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  • Abwehr of the success of the "attack", which is what his German handlers sent him to England to do. The ruse proved successful in fooling the Abwehr,...
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    Nikolaus Ritter (category Abwehr personnel of World War II)
    1899 – 9 April 1974) is best known as the Chief of Air Intelligence in the Abwehr (German military intelligence) who led spyrings in the United Kingdom and...
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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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    of the Abwehr "Tiger B") was created for the special purposes of Abwehr and controlled by the Stab Walli (in June 1941, it consisted of 21 Abwehr commandos...
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