Wilhelm Canaris
- Category : Politics-Nazi-party
- Type : MGE
- Profile : 2/4 - Hermit / Opportunist
- Definition : Single
- Incarnation Cross : RAX Tension 4
Biography
German military Admiral; involved in the assassination attempt against Hitler on 7/20/1944. Discovered by the Gestapo, he was arrested and tortured to death in Flossenburg, a German prison; died 04/09/1945, 04:00 PM.
Impatient and a workaholic, he was raised with the stringent standards of old Prussia. He had a remarkable talent for languages and for negotiations, with swift observations of people. He was described as physically overcome with nausea at Hitler's atrocities and brutality. As one of the "old guard," he was one of the military who kept Hitler somewhat in check.
When the assassination attempt failed and other participants were picked up by the Gestapo, Canaris remained debonair and optimistic, an ill-founded attitude. His last days were gruesome.