Hitler's Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris MysteryOpen Road Media, 5 juin 2012 - 352 pages A remarkable tale of espionage and intrigue—the true story of Hitler’s intelligence chief and his role in the conspiracy to assassinate the Führer. Admiral Wilhelm Canaris was appointed by Adolf Hitler to head the Abwehr (the German secret service) eighteen months after the Nazis came to power. But Canaris turned against the Fu¨hrer and the Nazi regime, believing that Hitler would start a war Germany could not win. In 1938 he was involved in an attempted coup, undermined by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. In 1940 he sabotaged the German plan to invade England, and fed General Franco vital information that helped him keep Spain out of the war. For years he played a dangerous double game, desperately trying to keep one step ahead of the Gestapo. The SS chief, Heinrich Himmler, became suspicious of Canaris and by 1944, when Abwehr personnel were involved in the attempted assassination of Hitler, he had the evidence to arrest Canaris himself. Canaris was executed a few weeks before the end of the war. In a riveting true story of intrigue and espionage, Richard Bassett reveals how Admiral Canaris’s secret work against the German leadership changed the course of World War II. |
Table des matières
Acknowledgements Preface | |
Authors Note | |
Preface to the American Edition | |
Introduction | |
A Naval Tradition | |
The League of Gentlemen | |
A Gilded Youth | |
Finis Germaniae | |
Lines of Communication | |
Keeping the Empire Afloat | |
Total | |
Duel to the Death | |
The Search for Peace | |
Unconditional Surrender | |
The End of the Abwehr | |
Conclusion | |
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