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
Canaris in 1940
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
Hans Paul Oster was a German general in the Wehrmacht and a leading figure in the military resistance to Adolf Hitler. As deputy head of the counter‑espionage bureau in the Abwehr, he used his positio
Wilhelm Canaris
…into Greater Germany (Grossdeutschland) on 13 March 1938. At that development, however, Canaris began spending more and more time in the company of Hans Oster and also began formulating ways to forestall or prevent a European war. Among the first to arrive in Vienna, Canaris had a special team seize records…
Memorial to members of the resistance, including Oster, executed at Flossenbürg.