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Wilhelm Canaris
By: Connor Manzer
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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
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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. "
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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.
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Poster
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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.
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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
• Canaris prevented the killing of captured French officers in Tunisia just as he saved hundreds of Jews during the war.