How to Pronounce Wilhelm Canaris
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Jan 01, 1887 Aplerbeck, Free State of Prussia, Germany Died on 09 Apr 1945 (aged 58)
German admiral, head of military intelligence service
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About Wilhelm Canaris
- Wilhelm Franz Canaris (1 January 1887 – 9 April 1945) was a German admiral and chief of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944.
- Initially a supporter of Adolf Hitler, by 1939 he had turned against the regime.
- During World War II he was among the military officers involved in the clandestine opposition to Nazi Germany leadership.
- He was executed in Flossenbürg concentration camp for high treason as the Nazi regime was collapsing.
