The Abwehr was a German intelligence agency that operated from 1920 to 1945. Oskar Schindler became a member, in part because he found he preferred them to the SS (who were disdained by some Abwehr members and sometimes treated as rivals).
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Abwehr Term Timeline in Schindler’s List
The timeline below shows where the term Abwehr appears in Schindler’s List. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1
...meets a German named Eberhard Gebauer who is with a German intelligence agency called the Abwehr. He knows Schindler is an outgoing man who has contacts across the Polish border and...
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Chapter 5
...Among those at the party are two policemen (Herman Toffel and Dieter Reeder) and two Abwehr men (Eberhard Gebauer, who recruited Schindler, and a lieutenant named Martin Plathe).
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Chapter 11
...name on Schindler’s list is Julian Scherner, and the second is Martin Plathe of the Abwehr. Third is Franz Bosch (whom Schindler had given kitchenware to earlier). Schindler suspects that his...
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