Walter Friedrich Schellenberg was a German Schutzstaffel functionary during the Nazi era who rose through the ranks of the Sicherheitsdienst to become one of its highest-ranking officers. Following th
Schellenberg as an SS-Oberführer in 1943
Heinrich Müller (Gestapo) (front row, to the left) and Reinhard Heydrich and SS-Oberführer Heinrich Fehlis (leader of SD and SiPo in Norway) to the right. Also SS-Hauptsturmführer Hermann Kluckhohn, SS-Sturmbannführer Walter Schellenberg, Rudolf Schiedermair, and other SS police officers at Ekeberg cemetery for German soldiers in Oslo during Heydrich's visit to Norway, 3–6 September 1941.
Wilhelm Franz Canaris was a German admiral and the chief of the Abwehr from 1935 to 1944. Initially a supporter of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, Canaris turned against Hitler and committed acts of
Walter Schellenberg
…Soviet operation. Historian Klaus Fischer asserts that Schellenberg's "only major success was smashing the Red Orchestra." Reportedly, Schellenberg and Wilhelm Canaris, the head of the Abwehr, were friends. They would go horseback-riding together in Berlin's wooded Grunewald, where they discussed the future of Nazi…
Canaris (second row, second from right) with other officers of the Marinekommandoamt (Naval Command Office), 1923
Canaris as a Korvettenkapitän, 1924–31
South African Minister of Defence Oswald Pirow walking in front of an honor guard during his visit to Berlin, to his left is Canaris, November 1938