The Abwehr was a real-life German military intelligence organization that was formed in 1920 and lasted until the end of World War II. In The Man in the High Castle, the Abwehr is a dissident German faction that wants to undermine the Nazi Party.
Abwehr Quotes in The Man in the High Castle
The The Man in the High Castle quotes below are all either spoken by Abwehr or refer to Abwehr. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 15
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And what will that leave, that Third World Insanity? Will that put an end to all life, of every kind, everywhere? When our planet becomes a dead planet, by our own hands?
[Baynes] could not believe that. Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that ours is the only world; there must be world after world unseen by us, in some region or dimension that we simply do not perceive.
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Abwehr Term Timeline in The Man in the High Castle
The timeline below shows where the term Abwehr appears in The Man in the High Castle. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 8
...relationship, egged on by the authorities in Berlin. Vom Meere wants to talk about the “Abwehr character” who has just arrived in the PSA, a man named Rudolf Wegener (though he...
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Chapter 10
Baynes is under strict instructions not to contact any members of the Abwehr, even though there are at least ten such people in the PSA. However, many of...
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Chapter 11
...police chief vom Meere. Vom Meere informs Reiss that they have found Rudolph Wegener, the “Abwehr fellow”; his real name is Baynes, and he is posing as a Swedish industrialist. Vom...
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