Abwehr
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The Abwehr was the German military intelligence service for the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht from 1920 to 1945.
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Chiefs
- Colonel Friedrich Gempp (1921–1927)
- Major Günther Schwantes (1927–1929)
- Lieutenant-Colonel Ferdinand von Bredow (1929–1932)
- Rear Admiral Konrad Patzig (1932–1935)
- Admiral Wilhelm Canaris (1935–1944)
- Brigadier General (Generalmajor) of Police (SS Brigadeführer) Walter Schellenberg (1944–1945)
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See also
- 20 July plot
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Eddie Chapman, a prominent British double agent who infiltrated the Abwehr and fed intelligence to MI5 during World War II. He was so trusted by the Germans that he is the only British citizen to ever have been awarded the Iron Cross.
- German Resistance
- Hermann Giskes—Leading light in the Abwehr Englandspiel operation in the Netherlands
- Irish Republican Army-Abwehr Collaboration
- Operation Salaam, a long-range mission into British-held Egypt during World War II
- Oskar Schindler, another Abwehr agent
- Hans Oster, Canaris' deputy
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