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10 unusual facts about Abwehr


Bert Sas

Oster had obtained an important position as the right hand of Wilhelm Canaris at the German Abwehr, the espionage and counter-espionage service of the army.

Erika Lehmann

During the Second World War she served in the German Abwehr.

Francis Daniel Pastorius

Despite the Quaker sympathies of Pastorius, his name was appropriated in 1942 by the Abwehr of Nazi Germany for "Operation Pastorius," a failed sabotage attack on the United States in World War II that included a target in Philadelphia.

Friedrich Hielscher

Hielscher convinced several of his followers to seek positions within the regime, including intelligence (Abwehr), military command, Ahnenerbe and police (SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt), from which positions they managed to protect some of those persecuted by the Nazi regime.

Leopold Bürkner

In 1938 he became head of the foreign liaison section of the Abwehr, the General Staff intelligence department.

On 15 June 1938 Captain Bürkner was appointed head of the foreign liaison section (Abteilung Ausland, later Amt Ausland) of the Abwehr, the intelligence organization of the

Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

Her employee, Paul Dall, responsible for the setting of her table, was a contact of the German Abwehr in Copenhagen, and was after the war judged guilty as a spy.

Reel of the 51st Highlanders

Atkinson's letter home with instructions for the dance was intercepted by the German security service, the Abwehr, who spent the rest of the war trying to break the code.

Seamus O'Donovan

Seamus (James or Jim) O'Donovan (3 November 1896 - 4 June 1979) was a leading volunteer in the Irish Republican Army and an operative of the Nazi Abwehr.

SS Ussukuma

On the outbreak of war on 1 September 1939 she was lying off Lorenço Marques and was taken over by the Abwehr for service in the South Atlantic.


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1940–44 insurgency in Chechnya

On August 25, 1942, nine German-trained saboteurs from Abwehr's Nordkaukasisches Sonderkommando Schamil landed near the village of Berzhki in the area of Galashki, where they recruited 13 local Chechens for their cause.

Bredow

Ferdinand von Bredow (1884-1934), German Major and head of the Abwehr (1932-1933)

German Type U 31 submarine

Later Admiral and head of the Abwehr from 1935 to 1944 Wilhelm Canaris also served as commander on two different U 31 U-boats.

Klaus Bonhoeffer

Through his brother Dietrich, he had contacts with the church resistance, and through his brothers-in-law, Justus Delbrück, Dohnanyi and Rüdiger Schleicher, he had many contacts in the military resistance to Hitler, especially in the circle about Wilhelm Canaris in the Abwehr of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht.

Odette Hallowes

Churchill's operation in France was infiltrated by Hugo Bleicher, an Abwehr counter-intelligence officer, who arrested Odette and Churchill at the Hotel de la Poste in Saint-Jorioz on 16 April 1943 and they were then sent to Fresnes Prison.

PARM

PARM 1 mine, Panzer-Abwehr Richtmine (German, Antitank defense arranging mine)

Rudy de Mérode

Attached to a supply office at 18 rue Pétrarque in Paris as a cover, he spied for the Abwehr alongside another SD agent, the Dutchman Gédéon van Houten (called the baron d'Humières).

Ukrainian Military Organization

In May 1923, Yevhen Konovalets and Friedrich Gempp - the chief of the Reichswehrministerium Abwehr-Abteilung signed an agreement according to which the UVO would conduct espionage work against Poland (providing Berlin with political, military and economic information), while the German side was to provide financial aid and military equipment for "revolutionary activity".