Wilhelm Canaris- The Man was responsible for the rise and fall of Hitler

Wilhelm Canaris- Who was responsible for the rise and fall of Adolf Hitler (Part-2)

Wilhelm Canaris

   In 1929 Wilhelm Canaris met Goering, the right hand of Adolf Hitler. Goering brought him in Adolf Hitler’s contact. This helped Wilhelm Canaris to change into the Nazi way to thinking. He now fully devoted himself to the progress of the Nazi party and also of Adolf Hitler. He knew that the Nazi party would not be able to come to power so easily. His especially clever and tricky mind set to work on organized plans of overthrowing the existing ruling party. The first step was to make use of the espionage department of the Weimer Republic for the Nazis. This was a terrible action on his part. He sold several strategic war secrets to Italy and collected money for party work. Using all his espionage skills he prepared reports of all the high ranking officials of the Weimer Republic. He stole the secret documents of the Chancellor and it was on this basis that Hitler threatened to organize an uprising of industrialists and landlords against the proposal of land reforms. All this resulted in so much of confusion in Weimer that President Hindenberg decided to dismiss the Chancellor and Adolf Hitler was given that post.

   In spite of doing all this, Wilhelm Canaris never came to the forefront. He preferred to remain in the background. He neither took part in meetings nor was his name or photograph ever published in any newspaper. He always remained a figure shrouded in mystery. No room of the Secret Service Department had his nameplate. He never used the common exits or entrances. He entered the officers through a secret door. People working in the same office did not know where his seat was. For them he was an ordinary man who lived in a far off south corner of Berlin.

Ian Fleming - The Creator of James Bond

    The Creator of James Bond - Ian Fleming (Part-2)

Ian Fleming

   Between the years 1939 and 1945 Germany and England were fighting a psychological battle. The German side was headed by Adlof Hitler’s propaganda minister, Paul Joseph Goebbles and on the other side there was the British Secret Service. Goebbles had instructed his astrologers to predict Adlof Hitler’s progress and victory, whereas the astrologers engaged by the British Secret Service were told to predict his downfall. Ian Fleming got some faked editions of certain German magazines printed which carried predictions about Adlof Hitler’s ultimate destruction. These magazines were cleverly circulated in Germany. The Nazi leaders read them and felt very much afraid. The War Office of Britain received all this information from Louis de Wohl, a German refugee. Rudolf Hess was all this time surrounded by a battalion of personal astrologers. Ian Fleming thought to enter into this circle somehow.

Duke of Hamilton

   Ian Fleming reconstituted an organization called “The Link”, which worked for British-German amity with bases at Lisbon and Tangier. He also had the information that to complete with Adlof Hitler’s chief of Spies, Admiral Kanaris, Rudolf Hess had his own secret service organization, which was very active in Lisbon and Tangier. He made it known to the people of the organization of Rudolf Hess that some influential English Lords were clearing the way of Britain and Germany to become friends. In the meanwhile, he sent one of his own agents, as an astrologer, into the circle of astrologers in whom Rudolf Hess had complete faith. This man gave Rudolf Hess imaginary predictions. He told Rudolf Hess that the Duke of Hamilton, who was in Scotland, wanted Britain and Germany to become friends.

   Ian Fleming thought of the double benefits of this plan. Since the Duke of Hamilton was in Scotland, Rudolf Hess would have no doubts about meeting him. Secondly, the agents of Rudolf Hess could have no access to any information regarding the Duke of Hamilton, as the Duke’s personality was beyond any shadow of doubt.

The creator of James Bond - Ian Fleming

     The Creator of James Bond - Ian Fleming (Part-1)

The Creator of James Bond, Ian Fleming

  Ian Fleming is known all over the world as the creator of “James Bond”. In real life he was a spy and a clever person too. He is the person, who succeeded in making a fool of the Nazi leader, Rudolf Hess. During the Second World War Ian Fleming displayed the cunningness of a fox and the strategy of a spider spinning a web. His acts were such that they seemed to exceed those of James Bond, the child of his imagination. One of his rare achievements was to bring Adlof Hitler’s right hand and his deputy, Rudolf Hess to defect to Scotland. He achieved this remarkable feat by taking advantage of Rudolf Hess’s blind faith in superstition.

   The very mention of the world “spy” brings to mind the name of “007” British Secret Agent, James Bond. The creator of this imaginary character was Ian Fleming, who himself was a highly successful British Secret Agent before and during the Second World War. It was after his retirement that he created the hero of his novels, James Bond and began his career as a detective fiction writer. Ian Fleming’s own experiences as an international spy and his own activities become the basic of the character that he created. During his active years in the British Secret Service he did something of an outstanding nature which ended only in the year 1987.