biography
pronunciation:
[kanahris]
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| lived:
| (1887–1945)
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| biography:
| Naval commander, born in Aplerbeck, WC Germany. He entered the imperial German Navy in 1905, and served in World War 1. Though disapproving of aspects of the Nazi regime, he rose under Hitler to become admiral of the German navy and chief of the Abwehr, the military intelligence service of the high command of the armed forces. Associated with the 1944 bomb plot against Hitler, he was arrested, imprisoned, and hanged. |
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