Word: abwehr
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...Nazi Party member, Admiral Canaris had headed Hitler's Abwehr, or espionage agency, from 1935 to 1943. Horrified with the party's excesses, he began using his position to plot against Hitler. He helped prospective terror victims escape, falsified reports to dissuade Hitler from invading Spain, saved the lives of French Generals Giraud and Weygand after Hitler ordered them assassinated. He and other undercover rebels kept a detailed chronology of Nazi crimes since 1933 and a card index of Nazi leaders. These and other documents, involving 2,000 Germans in the plot against Hitler, were subsequently seized...