• Thumbnail for Wilhelm Canaris
    Wilhelm Franz Canaris (1 January 1887 – 9 April 1945) was a German admiral and the chief of the Abwehr (the German military-intelligence service) from...
    53 KB (6,731 words) - 22:19, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Abwehr
    another Reichsmarine captain, Wilhelm Canaris. Before he took over the Abwehr on 1 January 1935, the soon-to-be Admiral Canaris was warned by Patzig of attempts...
    83 KB (10,519 words) - 22:16, 12 October 2024
  • Labour law the University of Munich. Canaris was born in Liegnitz, Germany. His father was Constantin Canaris. Canaris went to school in Königsberg, Miesbach...
    8 KB (709 words) - 06:50, 20 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hans Oster
    named Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, the head of Abwehr, as the "spiritual founder of the Resistance Movement". The Gestapo arrested Canaris and eventually...
    15 KB (1,641 words) - 02:12, 17 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wilhelm II
    former World War I Office of Naval Intelligence field agent Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Colonel General Curt Haase, World War I flying ace turned Wehrmachtbefehlshaber...
    139 KB (16,301 words) - 16:40, 27 October 2024
  • statesman Wilhelm Canaris (1887–1945), German admiral and spymaster Cañari, a native tribe in Ecuador Cañaris District, Ferreñafe, Peru Canaris (film),...
    598 bytes (95 words) - 11:42, 15 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brandenburgers
    after having his idea rejected by the Reichswehr, approached Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, commander of the German Intelligence Service, the Abwehr. Hippel proposed...
    32 KB (3,862 words) - 16:20, 21 October 2024
  • that Wilhelm Canaris had become engaged to Erika Waag, the woman he married later in 1919, in Pforzheim on 17 May 1919, which he accepted as Canaris' alibi...
    9 KB (1,072 words) - 22:45, 28 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Otto Thorbeck
    Oster, Army chief judge Karl Sack, Captain Ludwig Gehre, and Admiral Wilhelm Canaris to death. They were all hanged on 9 April, two weeks before the United...
    3 KB (263 words) - 22:34, 22 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Operation Pastorius
    strategic American economic targets. The operation was named by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the German Abwehr, for Francis Daniel Pastorius, the organizer...
    29 KB (3,227 words) - 19:06, 3 September 2024
  • Released in the UK as Canaris Master Spy, and in the US as Deadly Decision—it is also known by the alternative title Canaris: Master Spy. It was shot...
    5 KB (436 words) - 20:52, 9 September 2024
  • Elyesa Bazna Otto von Bolschwing Willem Ter Braak Ernest Peter Burger Wilhelm Canaris Mathilde Carré Coco Chanel Eddie Chapman Harold Cole William Colepaugh...
    6 KB (155 words) - 00:38, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hermann Göring
    Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering; German: [ˈhɛʁman ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈɡøːʁɪŋ] ; 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German politician, military leader,...
    103 KB (11,746 words) - 10:32, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Georg Hansen
    participants in the German Resistance against the Nazis. Chief of the Abwehr Wilhelm Canaris appointed Colonel Hansen as his successor as head of military counterintelligence...
    9 KB (1,100 words) - 22:32, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oster conspiracy
    Generaloberst Ludwig Beck, General Wilhelm Adam, Generaloberst Walther von Brauchitsch, Generaloberst Franz Halder, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, and Generalleutnant Erwin...
    12 KB (1,229 words) - 22:55, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hermann Ehrhardt
    ISBN 978-3-406-59236-2. Suhr, Heiko (2020). Wilhelm Canaris. Lehrjahre eines Geheimdienstchefs (1905–1934) [Wilhelm Canaris. Apprenticeship of an Intelligence...
    21 KB (2,735 words) - 18:11, 23 October 2024
  • German intelligence in Spain was then Wilhelm Leissner, alias "Gustav Lenz"codename "Heidelberg", Admiral Wilhelm Canaris had taken a shine to Kühlenthal to...
    3 KB (333 words) - 22:11, 11 January 2024
  • British government, known as the Allies' conduit to Nazi German Admiral Wilhelm Canaris. She was the wife of Colonel Antoni Szymański, the last prewar Polish...
    7 KB (757 words) - 22:48, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Erwin von Witzleben
    and Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, Admiral and Chief of the Abwehr Wilhelm Canaris and Abwehr Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel) Hans Oster. The men...
    19 KB (1,939 words) - 00:55, 6 November 2024
  • resealed. Hitler is convinced the documents are genuine, though Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the Abwehr, is sceptical. The Germans dispatch to London an...
    14 KB (1,631 words) - 05:54, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ludwig Beck
    negative influence on Hitler. Together with the Abwehr chief, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, and the German Foreign Office's State Secretary, Baron Ernst von Weizsäcker...
    38 KB (4,765 words) - 08:12, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Heinrich Müller (Gestapo)
    distrusted the military intelligence service—the Abwehr—which under Admiral Wilhelm Canaris was a hotbed of activity for the German Resistance. In 1942 he successfully...
    52 KB (6,597 words) - 13:48, 20 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Helmuth Ternberg
    activities in Sweden. He was also good friends with German spymaster Wilhelm Canaris, the head of Abwehr in Berlin. Ternberg continued his intelligence...
    12 KB (1,519 words) - 09:31, 1 November 2024
  • Countries with major counterintelligence failures are presented alphabetically. In each case, there is at least one systemic problem with seeking penetration...
    11 KB (1,233 words) - 15:19, 12 December 2022
  • believed to have been active with the organisation included: Admiral Wilhelm Canaris (1887–1945), ranking member, the head of German military intelligence...
    14 KB (1,940 words) - 08:43, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for German resistance to Nazism
    Himmler passed the file back with the note "Kindly leave Canaris alone." Either Himmler felt Canaris was too powerful to tackle at this stage, or he wanted...
    188 KB (26,434 words) - 04:17, 21 October 2024
  • Kühlenthal, one of the most senior Abwehr agents in Spain. He asked Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, the head of the Abwehr, to personally intervene and persuade the Spanish...
    63 KB (8,043 words) - 20:45, 29 October 2024
  • The Abwehr, led by Wilhelm Canaris, sought to instigate an anti-Polish uprising in Volhynia and Eastern Lesser Poland. Canaris was said to have persuaded...
    24 KB (3,317 words) - 00:11, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Francisco Franco
    Mussolini, who responded with an offer of arms and planes. In Germany Wilhelm Canaris, the head of the Abwehr military intelligence service, persuaded Hitler...
    181 KB (21,386 words) - 04:10, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Konstantinos Kanaris
    c. 1790 – 2 September 1877), also anglicised as Constantine Kanaris or Canaris, was a Greek statesman, admiral, and a hero of the Greek War of Independence...
    19 KB (1,503 words) - 07:20, 23 October 2024