Wilhelm Canaris
Military Person
1887 – 1945
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Who was Wilhelm Canaris?
Wilhelm Franz Canaris was a German admiral, and chief of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944. During the Second World War, he was among the military officers involved in the clandestine opposition to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. He was executed in the Flossenbürg concentration camp for the act of high treason.
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- Born
- Jan 1, 1887
Province of Westphalia - Nationality
- Germany
- Lived in
- Dortmund
- Berlin
- Died
- Apr 9, 1945
Flossenbürg concentration camp
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on July 23, 2013
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