Proper noun
the Abwehr
(historical) The military intelligence service of the German Weimar Republic and Third Reich, from 1920 to 1944 or 1945.
After the war Chapman remained friends with Baron Stephan von Gröning, his Abwehr handler (wartime alias Doctor Graumann), who had fallen on hard times. Source: Internet
Abwehr hand ciphers were cracked early in the war and SD hand ciphers and Abwehr Enigma ciphers followed. Source: Internet
A rare Abwehr Enigma machine, designated G312, was stolen from the Bletchley Park museum on 1 April 2000. Source: Internet
Bellegarde was later forced to work during the Second World War for the Russian section of the Abwehr (German military intelligence) in Berlin; there is evidence that he was the very effective British double agent known as "Outcast". Source: Internet
Agents from the German intelligence services, Abwehr and Sicherheitsdienst (SD), were apprehended. Source: Internet
At this time, the German Abwehr was active in Spain, particularly around the British naval base of Gibraltar, which its agents hoped to watch with cameras and radar to track Allied supply ships in the Western Mediterranean. Source: Internet