Wilhelm Canaris - The man who was responsible for the rise and fall of Hitler (Part-1)
The story of Wilhelm Canaris goes to prove that life can change its courses in very many surprising ways. Wilhelm Franz Canaris started life as an ordinary rating I the navy and was made an Admiral by Hitler in the year 1939. The reason for this was the role that he played by his espionage activities, which laid the foundation of Hitler’s rise to power. And only after six years of that, it was Hitler who ordered him to be put to death cruelly in the year 1945. This was because he had played a different role which put the last nail in Hitler’s coffin and as a result changed the course of history.
On the 8th of April, 1945 at 5 a.m. a prisoner was brought to the Nazi Concentration Camp of Flossenberg in Germany. There was not a strip of clothing on his body which was covered with black and blue marks, evidence of cruel and horrible punishment inflicted on him. After a short while the Gestapo put him on the way to a slow and very painful death by butchering him with a thin piano wire wound around his neck. The horrified people watching this gruesome scene, were those who, only a few days before, had been saluting the prisoner every day. This prisoner was none other than the Nazi Chief of espionage-Wilhelm Canaris.
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The story of Wilhelm Canaris goes to prove that life can change its courses in very many surprising ways. Wilhelm Franz Canaris started life as an ordinary rating I the navy and was made an Admiral by Hitler in the year 1939. The reason for this was the role that he played by his espionage activities, which laid the foundation of Hitler’s rise to power. And only after six years of that, it was Hitler who ordered him to be put to death cruelly in the year 1945. This was because he had played a different role which put the last nail in Hitler’s coffin and as a result changed the course of history.
On the 8th of April, 1945 at 5 a.m. a prisoner was brought to the Nazi Concentration Camp of Flossenberg in Germany. There was not a strip of clothing on his body which was covered with black and blue marks, evidence of cruel and horrible punishment inflicted on him. After a short while the Gestapo put him on the way to a slow and very painful death by butchering him with a thin piano wire wound around his neck. The horrified people watching this gruesome scene, were those who, only a few days before, had been saluting the prisoner every day. This prisoner was none other than the Nazi Chief of espionage-Wilhelm Canaris.
