Abwehr

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The Abwehr was the German military-intelligence service for the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht from 1920 to 1944.

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Abwehr: Allied invasion of Sicily
American historian Robin Winks says that the Abwehr was "an abysmal failure, failing to forecast Torch, or Husky, or Overlord".
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Abwehr: Operation Mincemeat, 1943
The nominally neutral Spanish government shared copies of the documents with the Abwehr, the German military intelligence organisation, before returning the originals to the British.
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