Ausland-SD

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Ausland-SD was the foreign intelligence branch of Nazi Germany’s SS Security Service responsible for espionage and information gathering outside the Reich.

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Ausland-SD canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi security organization
foreign intelligence service
intelligence agency
activeDuring Nazi era
World War II
allegiance Reichsführer-SS
Schutzstaffel (SS)
surface form: Schutzstaffel
considered criminal organization by postwar tribunals
country Nazi Germany
dissolved 1945
dissolvedFollowing defeat of Nazi Germany
ideology Nazism
languageOfOperation German
objective identify enemies of the Nazi regime abroad
monitor foreign political developments
support German foreign policy goals
operatedIn foreign countries
territories outside the German Reich
opposed Allies of World War II
surface form: Allied powers

Soviet Union
partOf SS
Schutzstaffel (SS)
surface form: Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS
role counterintelligence abroad
espionage
foreign intelligence
information analysis
political intelligence gathering
subordinateTo Reich Main Security Office
usedMethod agent recruitment
clandestine networks
covert operations
interrogation of sources
signal intelligence coordination

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SS Security Service (SD) hasPart Ausland-SD
Sicherheitsdienst division Ausland-SD