Abwehr

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The military intelligence service of the German Weimar Republic and Third Reich, from 1920 to 1944 or 1945.

Word forms

Abwehr the Abwehr

Etymology

Borrowed from German Abwehr (“defence; counter-intelligence”).

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