Admiral Canaris was head of German military intelligence from 1935 to 1944; he was killed in the latter year by the Gestapo for disloyalty to the Nazi régime, though he did not belong to the band of ...

ADMIRAL Wilhelm Canaris, who remains a shadowy and mysterious figure, was head of the Abwehr, one of several Nazi intelligence services. ADMIRAL Wilhelm Canaris, who remains a shadowy and mysterious ...

A British-made acid bomb hidden in a briefcase exploded on July 20, 1944 in Adolf Hitler’s headquarters, “Wolfschanze,” deep in an East Prussian pine forest. Four men were killed, but Hitler staggered ...

'One great advantage of generally accepted truth is that it is generally accepted,' writes Richard Bassett in the preface to the paperback edition of Hitler's Spy Chief, which caused some controversy ...