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1 Fregattenkapitän Wilhelm Canaris, late 1920s
2 In a circle of classmates after obtaining his Abitur school-leaving certificate, (Canaris second from right)
3 As U-boat commander with his officers on the foredeck of UB-128
4 Amongst his crew, 1918
5 Kapitän zur See and commander of the old battleship Schlesien, 1934 (Canaris second from left)
6 A leisurely stroll to the beach with friends. A photograph from an album which Canaris (centre) gave to his No. 1 Staff Officer, Karl Dönitz, upon his departure as Chief of Staff from Wilhelmshaven naval station
7 From the same album, the enthusiastic horseman taking a hurdle
8 In the air
9 Relaxing as a “civilian” during a sea cruise
10 A beer evening in honour of SS-Reichsführer Himmler at the Old Military Academy, Berlin, in January 1935. From the left: von Leeb, von Fritsch, Himmler, von Blomberg, Secretary of State Körner, Raeder, von Rundstedt (Luftwaffe Staff officer not identified)
11 In conversation with Himmler (left) and Goebbels during the 1936 Nuremberg Rally
12 At a military reunion in Berlin with General der Flieger Karl Eberth (left) and SS-Gruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich (right)
13 Werner Best, ‘senior lawyer’ of the Gestapo, and an important conversation partner for Canaris, 1933
14 With the Spanish Civil War hero General Jose Moscardo at a reception in Berlin, 1939
15 A visit to the Eastern Front with counter-espionage chief Franz-Eccard von Bentivegni
16 Assembly of the Abwehr and SD heads at Hradshin Castle, Prague, May 1942, a few days before the assassination of Heydrich
17 ‘To our esteemed Chief, in memory of sunnier days.’ Canaris in a circle of Abwehr colleagues, probably during a stay in France. From a photo album he received in April 1943
18 Anti-Hitler conspirators: Heinz (left) and Oster (right) with an unidentified officer
19 The lawyer and Resistance worker Hans von Dohnanyi (with spectacles) posing with Karl Ludwig von Guttenberg and Justus Delbrück, colleagues at Abwehr HQ, about 1942 for a photo to be presented to Hans Oster. The trio never wore uniform in practice
20 Hans Bernd Gisevius, 1933. The former Gestapo official joined the Abwehr and became an important link to the American OSS in Switzerland
21 22 June 1941: Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop announces to the world press the invasion of the Soviet Union. From left, seated, Secretary of State Ernst von Weizsäcker, Reich Press Chief Otto Dietrich and Senior Interpreter at the Foreign Ministry Paul Schmidt
22 The former head of RSHA Amt VI (SD-Ausland), SS-Brigadeführer Walter Schellenberg, being sworn as a witness at the principal War Crimes Trials at Nuremberg
23 Wilhelm Keitel, Erwin Lahousen, Wilhelm Canaris and Franz-Eccard von Bentivegni at FHQ Felsennest, Eiffel Forest, 1941
24 With the former head of Abwehr II, Erwin Lahousen, at Voronice, Ukraine, Summer 1942
25 On the occasion of the funeral of former Kaiser Wilhelm II at Doorn, Netherlands, June 1941. Left to right: Canaris, Reich Commissar Arthur von Seyss-Inquart, Generalfeldmarschall August von Mackensen, Admiral Hermann Densch
26 Canaris (left, with hat) during one of his frequent visits to Spain
27 Relaxing in Bavaria, 1942
28 The Canaris family home at Berlin-Schlachtensee, built in 1936
29 Abwehr headquarters, Tirpitzufer, Berlin
30 The barracks at Flossenbürg concentration camp where Canaris, Oster, Bonhoeffer, Gehre, Sack and Strünck were executed on 9 April 1945
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