What was Canaris' nationality?
Austrian
Prussian
German
Polish
Answer
Wilhelm Canaris was a German admiral. He served as head of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944. Canaris was a conservative and a nationalist, but he opposed Hitler and the Nazi regime. He was involved in several plots to overthrow Hitler, but none of them were successful. Canaris was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 and executed for treason.
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