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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"--