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    1944. Canaris was initially a supporter of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. Following the German invasion of Poland in 1939, however, Canaris turned...
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    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...
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  • Labour law the University of Munich. Canaris was born in Liegnitz, Germany. His father was Constantin Canaris. Canaris went to school in Königsberg, Miesbach...
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    former World War I Office of Naval Intelligence field agent Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Colonel General Curt Haase, World War I flying ace turned Wehrmachtbefehlshaber...
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    named Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, the head of Abwehr, as the "spiritual founder of the Resistance Movement". The Gestapo arrested Canaris and eventually...
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  • statesman Wilhelm Canaris (1887–1945), German admiral and spymaster Cañari, a native tribe in Ecuador Cañaris District, Ferreñafe, Peru Canaris (film),...
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  • 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...
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  • Countries with major counterintelligence failures are presented alphabetically. In each case, there is at least one systemic problem with seeking penetration...
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    after having his idea rejected by the Reichswehr, approached Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, commander of the German Intelligence Service, the Abwehr. Hippel proposed...
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  • 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...
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  • Elyesa Bazna Otto von Bolschwing Willem Ter Braak Ernest Peter Burger Wilhelm Canaris Mathilde Carré Coco Chanel Eddie Chapman Harold Cole William Colepaugh...
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    Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering; German: [ˈhɛʁman ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈɡøːʁɪŋ] ; 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German politician, military leader,...
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    strategic American economic targets. The operation was named by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the German Abwehr, for Francis Daniel Pastorius, the organizer...
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  • German intelligence in Spain was then Wilhelm Leissner, alias "Gustav Lenz"codename "Heidelberg", Admiral Wilhelm Canaris had taken a shine to Kühlenthal to...
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    Generaloberst Ludwig Beck, General Wilhelm Adam, Generaloberst Walther von Brauchitsch, Generaloberst Franz Halder, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, and Generalleutnant Erwin...
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    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...
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    ISBN 978-3-406-59236-2. Suhr, Heiko (2020). Wilhelm Canaris. Lehrjahre eines Geheimdienstchefs (1905–1934) [Wilhelm Canaris. Apprenticeship of an Intelligence...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • resealed. Hitler is convinced the documents are genuine, though Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the Abwehr, is sceptical. The Germans dispatch to London an...
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    and Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, Admiral and Chief of the Abwehr Wilhelm Canaris and Abwehr Oberstleutnant (lieutenant colonel) Hans Oster. The men...
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    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...
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  • Admiral Canaris, head of the Abwehr, is ordered to make a feasibility study into capturing the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. Canaris considers...
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    negative influence on Hitler. Together with the Abwehr chief, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, and the German Foreign Office's State Secretary, Baron Ernst von Weizsäcker...
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  • 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...
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  • believed to have been active with the organisation included: Admiral Wilhelm Canaris (1887–1945), ranking member, the head of German military intelligence...
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    fact Captain Lieutenant (and later Admiral) Wilhelm Canaris, who took Vogel to the Netherlands by car. Canaris was never prosecuted for the action. Representatives...
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    Mussolini, who responded with an offer of arms and planes. In Germany Wilhelm Canaris, the head of the Abwehr military intelligence service, persuaded Hitler...
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    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...
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    uniforms, equipment and identification cards; he was later told by Wilhelm Canaris that people from concentration camps had been disguised in these uniforms...
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