Admiral Canaris : how Hitler's chief of intelligence betrayed the Nazis
(2024)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
940.548743/JOHNSON,D

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 940.548743/JOHNSON,D Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Essex, Connecticut : Prometheus Books, [2024]
DESCRIPTION

xiv, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781633889989, 163388998X :, 163388998X, 9781633889989
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Orders from the Führer -- Changes of Regime, Changes of Fortune -- Turning Against Hitler -- Cheating the Gestapo -- Opening A Spanish Door -- Suspicions and Brutalities -- A Diplomat, an Assassination, and a Pestilent Priest -- A Hazardous Operation -- Authority and Opportunity -- An Unexpected Ally -- "Getting Rid of Hitler" -- The Bitter End -- Father of the Persecuted

"Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Adolf Hitler's chief of military intelligence, accomplished something that neither President Franklin D. Roosevelt nor Prime Minister Winston Churchill could ever achieve - he saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish refugees and other racial and political undesirables by rescuing them from Nazi Germany and other Nazi-occupied countries. Admiral Canaris is a page-turning story of one of the most important and least likely saboteurs within the Third Reich"--

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