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Abwehr. The Abwehr (German for resistance or defence, though the word usually means counterintelligence in a military context; pronounced [ˈapveːɐ̯]) was the German military-intelligence service for the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht from 1920 to 1945. [1][a] Although the 1919 Treaty of Versailles prohibited the Weimar Republic from ...
Secret State Police (Gestapo) (German: Geheime Staatspolizei): Secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe. Secret Field Police (GFP) (German: Geheime Feldpolizei): Secret military police of the Wehrmacht. Security Service (SD) (German: Sicherheitsdienst): Intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party.
CIA report on negotiations to establish the BND (1952) The predecessor of the BND was the German eastern military intelligence agency during World War II, the Abteilung Fremde Heere Ost or FHO Section in the General Staff, led by Wehrmacht Major General Reinhard Gehlen.
Sicherheitsdienst (German: [ˈzɪçɐhaɪtsˌdiːnst] ⓘ, "Security Service"), full title Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS ("Security Service of the Reichsführer-SS "), or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Established in 1931, the SD was the first Nazi intelligence organization and the ...
Wilhelm Franz Canaris (1 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 initially a supporter of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. Following the German invasion of Poland in 1939, however, Canaris turned against Hitler and committed acts ...
Reinhard Gehlen (3 April 1902 – 8 June 1979) was a German career intelligence officer who served the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, the U.S. intelligence community, and the NATO -affiliated Federal Republic of Germany during the Cold War. Born into a Lutheran family at Erfurt, Gehlen joined the Reichswehr, the truncated Army of the Weimar ...
One of the principal functions of the local SD units was to serve as the intelligence agency for the local Gestapo units. In the occupied territories, the formal relationship between local units of the Gestapo, criminal police, and SD was slightly closer. [5] The RSHA continued to grow at an enormous rate during World War II in Europe. [6]
The Brandenburgers (German: Brandenburger) were members of Nazi Germany 's Wehrmacht special forces unit during World War II. [1] Originally, the unit was formed by and operated as an extension of the military's intelligence and counter-espionage organ, the Abwehr. Members of this unit took part in seizing operationally important targets by way ...