Chapter 6

The Dark Secrets of Nazi Intelligence

Admiral Wilhelm Canaris – German Military Intelligence Chief and Nazi Traitor

General Reinhard Heydrich – Final Solution Architect

The two most important and powerful figures in Nazi Intelligence held secrets about each other that shaped the course of the war. While Canaris became part of the plot to end the Nazi regime, Heydrich was the ultimate Nazi iron man who was targeted for assassination by Czech resistance fighters, though the Allies knew there would be terrible reprisals.

Though the Little Fox (Canaris) and Hangman Heydrich were neighbors and pretended to be friends, they both worked against each other throughout their short careers as major forces in the Third Reich’s intelligence successes and failures.

Both Canaris and Heydrich had numerous relationships with key figures in the war. Their lives had profound affects on the operation of the war and its eventual end, which included the The Night of the Long Knives, Kristallnacht, the SS super spy Walter Schellenberg, the downfall and phony incrimination of anti-Stalinist Marsahl Mikhail Tukhachevsky, the Nazi brothel Salon Kitty created to eavesdrop on officers, Canaris and his treasonous relationship with the Black Orchestra, the phony attack on Poland to start World War II, the atrocious decisions made at the Wannsee conference, Heydrich’s and Hitler’s Jewish ancestry, the World War I Jewish German hero imprisoned in Dachau and offered freedom if he spied for the Third Reich, Kubis’s and Gabcik assassination of Heydrich, the Lidice reprisal, the traitors Canaris and Kim Philby.