Abwehr/Related Articles

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German military forces [r]: German military traditions and organization from pre-19th century unification, through the World Wars, through reunification ^[e]
Counterintelligence [r]: Countermeasures to foreign intelligence organizations collecting intelligence against one's own side. ^[e]
Human-source intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description

Ferdinand von Bredow [r]: Major General in Reichswehr who headed Abwehr military counterintelligence and was deputy defense minister;associate of Kurt von Schleicher; opponent of Adolf Hitler; shot during Night of the Long Knives ^[e]
Wilhelm Canaris [r]: Rear Admiral in the German Navy during WWII; commanded Abwehr military intelligence service, which contained many anti-Nazi conspirators and was eventually absorbed by the SS; eventually executed at Flossenburg Concentration Camp ^[e]
- Hans Oster [r]: Officer in the WWII German Army; Deputy Chief of the Abwehr military organization reporting to Admiral Wilhelm Canaris; active member of the German Resistance; eventually executed in Flossenburg Concentration Camp ^[e]
- Hans von Dohnanyi [r]: (1902-1945) German attorney and legal adviser; attached to Abwehr in WWII; traveled abroad for German Resistance; executed for 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler ^[e]

German Resistance [r]: Individuals and groups in Nazi Germany who opposed the regime of Adolf Hitler between 1933 and 1945. ^[e] v
RSHA [r]: Nazi Germany's Reich Main Security Organization, a division of the SS, first headed by Reinhard Heydrich and then Ernst Kaltenbrunner; included the Gestapo and SD ^[e]
- Reinhard Heydrich [r]: First commander of the RSHA of the SS, then Nazi Protector of Bohemia and Moravia until his assassination ^[e]
- Walter Schellenberg [r]: (1910-1952) SS-Brigadefuehrer, who headed the SD throughout WWII, which absorbed all other national foreign intelligence organizations of Nazi Germany; testified against major war criminals at the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg); later received a six-year sentence; commuted before his death from liver disease ^[e]