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Wilhelm Canaris

Wilhelm Canaris. By: Connor Manzer. Description . He was a double agent, and he was among the military officers involved in the opposition to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi organization. http :// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Canaris. Famous Quote.

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Wilhelm Canaris

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  1. Wilhelm Canaris By: Connor Manzer

  2. Description • He was a double agent, and he was among the military officers involved in the opposition to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi organization. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Canaris

  3. Famous Quote • " I die for my fatherland. I have a clear conscience. I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler. " • Wilhelm Canaris

  4. His execution • He was executed in the Flossenbürg concentration camp for treason. He helped some Jewish people with him knowing he could be killed for it. At the time he was in germany.

  5. Poster

  6. More information • http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/canaris.html • In March 1943, Canaris personally flied to Smolensk to plan Hitler’s assassination with conspirators on the staff of Army Group Center.

  7. More information • Canaris’s strenuous efforts in trying to put a stop to the crimes of war and genocide committed in Russia. It is also shown that • Canarisprevented the killing of captured French officers in Tunisia just as he saved hundreds of Jews during the war.

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