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Abwehr

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Abwehr

Intelligence and counterespionage service of the German High Command 1933-45. It was commanded by Admiral Canaris 1935-44, when its duties were taken over by the SS under Himmler.
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The Abwehr created three special departments in three army groups: North, Center and South, whose mission was to conduct strategic operations on the Eastern Front.
Lessons of the Great Patriotic War: combating subversion and ... by Kiselev, V.A. / Military Thought
The disillusioned Wehrmacht officer Canaris, recently appointed head of German intelligence and repelled by his nation's pseudoscientific racialist policy, has hesitantly begun to construct the Abwehr spy network whose collapse will result in his being hanged alongside Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
A Tale of Two Cities by Garvey, Michael O. / Commonweal
German intelligence, the Abwehr, remained efficient and reasonable (and ready to deal discreetly with the Allies) while the wickedness was perpetrated by Schellenburg's SS intelligence division, the Sicherheitsdienst.
A nation under guilt by Walker, Martin / The National Interest
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