Search Details

Word: abwehr (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Night of the Generals is basically a detective story, and a good one. A prostitute is found brutally stabbed to death in wartime Warsaw; a witness claims to have seen a German general leaving her apartment. Major Grau of the Abwehr narrows the suspects down to three: General von Seydlitz-Gabler, a cautious, ineffectual commanding officer representing the Prussian military tradition; Major General Kahlenberge, his able and acerb chief of staff; and Lieutenant General Tanz, the dashing leader of the Nibelungen (Special Operations) Division. But Major Grau is reassigned, and does not resume his investigation until 1944--two years later...

Author: By Martin S. Levine, | Title: Three Generals Were Suspects | 4/9/1964 | See Source »

...Radio Game. All, claims Author Nicholas, were victims of the "radio game": Abwehr, the German counterintelligence, when it had captured an agent and his set, often kept right on sending messages to London, using captured codes, and arranging for air drops of agents and supplies. London's S.O.E. security seemed incredibly lax. Agents had been taught to misspell words in predetermined sections of each message. Once, when the Abwehr sent a fake message through without the misspellings, London merely chided: "You forgot your double security check. Be more careful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Painful Memories | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

Single Mind. Otto John was a complicated man, caught in the confusions and counterloyalties of his time. One key to his character was his hatred of Naziism, a single-minded purpose which had forced him to lead a double life. During World War II, he served simultaneously in the Abwehr (Wehrmacht counterintelligence) and as a British secret-service contact. He was legal adviser to the Nazis' Lufthansa Airline and a secret anti-Nazi resistance worker. One memorable day ten years ago last week. Otto John landed at war-battered Tempelhof Airfield, where his brother, Hans, waited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Man with 1,000 Secrets | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...were really guilty. ¶ British officials in Germany paid 22,500 Deutsche Mark ($5,357) damages to Hans Klose, an ex-Wehrmacht private who was captured by the British and turned over to the Russians for five years' imprisonment on the mistaken impression that he was a former Abwehr officer (TIME, June 1). A British court which tried Klose's suit for mistaken arrest placed the blame for the error squarely on the Russians, but urged that Hans should be compensated for his sufferings. Said Hans: "I am grateful . . . That they paid is proof that there is good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEQUELS: Added Chapters | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

Taken to a villa in the British sector, he was asked more questions by British intelligence agents. Soon Klose began to understand: they were looking for another Klose, a former Abwehr (counterespionage) officer, about 20 years older, whose first name was Erich or Emil. Monotonously, Hans Klose repeated that he was the wrong Klose: not Erich but Hans, not 54 years old but 34, not an ex-officer but an ex-private in the Wehrmacht. A British sergeant snapped, "You lie." Hans Klose produced his Wehrpass (military identity card); the British shrugged. They turned him over to the Russian army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Case of Hans Klose | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | Next