Canaris Wilhelm

  • Canaris, Wilhelm, 1887-1945
  • Kanāriss, Vilhelms, 1887-1945
  • Канарис, Вильгельм, 1887-1945
  • Canaris, Wilhelm
  • Kanaris, Vilʹgelʹm, 1887-1945
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Identifier
00589
Type of Entity
Person

Dates of Existence

01/01/1887

09/04/1945

History

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.