On the afternoon of March 13, 1943, the "Fokker-Wolf 200" transport aircraft that Hitler took off from Smolensk under the escort of a team of "Me-109" fighter jets and landed in Lustenburg three hours later.
The smooth landing of the Hitler special plane shocked a person, which was Canaris .
Just 3 hours ago, someone had already put a bomb containing two bottles of wine on Hitler's special plane and activated the detonation device.
However, the bomb did not explode. So, the people behind the scenes felt very frustrated: The "Lightning Plan" failed!
One day in September 1939, the Nazi German Military Intelligence Agency intercepted the password of a "halberd" issued by the British intelligence agency to all its intelligence websites.
Rear Admiral Canaris, director of the German Military Intelligence Agency, concluded from this that it is inevitable that Britain will participate in the war.
At noon, Canaris came to the radio to listen to the broadcast of the BBC in London.
12:15, British Prime Minister Chamberlain's weak and sad voice came from the radio:
"I speak to you in the cabinet conference room of Downing Street, . This morning, the British ambassador to Germany submitted an ultimatum to the German government. If the British government does not receive the reply that Germany is ready to withdraw its troops from Poland immediately at 11 o'clock, our two countries will be in a state of war.
I have to tell you that we have not received such a reply so far. With this, our country and Germany are already in a state of war."
Canaris turned off the radio and quickly issued a notice to more than 3,000 spies distributed throughout Europe, notifying them that Germany, Britain and France are already in a state of war.
Then, he convened a meeting of all personnel from the bureau headquarters. After checking the war deployment of the intelligence agency, he issued a loyal warning to his subordinates, asking them not to do things similar to selling national interests.
After most of the people left, Canaris said to several of his confidants: "The war has begun, and Germany may fail, perhaps a catastrophic failure. But if Hitler wins, it will be a greater disaster. Therefore, the work of our intelligence agency should not extend the war for one day."
The few people understood and nodded in agreement.
On the first day of 1887, Canaris was born in a very wealthy and powerful foundry owner family on the outskirts of Dortmund in northern Germany. When he was a teenager, he admired heroes very much and often claimed to the outside world that he was a descendant of Constantinovich Canaris, a hero during the Greek War of Independence in the 19th century.
In 1905, at the age of 18, he was admitted to the cradle of the German Navy, the Kiel Naval Academy, where Canaris showed his outstanding intelligence. In addition to his outstanding academic performance, his extraordinary language talent was his strength.
He fluently mastered English, French, Italian , and Russian. During a long voyage to South America, he learned Spanish in a short time.
The graduation certificate of Kiel Naval Academy sent Canaris to the navy of German Empire . He was assigned to serve on the light cruiser "Dresden". Before the outbreak of World War I , Canaris was first appointed as the intelligence officer on the ship and was soon promoted to deputy captain.
After the outbreak of World War I, the light cruiser "Dresden" served by Canaris fought in the Pacific with the German Navy East Asian squadron led by German Lieutenant General von Spey. Although they once achieved gratifying victory, these victory finally brought them a catastrophe.
Carnaris
In order to eliminate the troubles, the British Navy sent several battleships to deal with them. In the Battle of the Falkland Islands at the end of 1914, the British Navy sank all the warships of the German East Asian Squadron except the "Dresden".
Canaris' good luck did not last long. In March of the following year, the "Dresden" who survived was caught by the British cruiser "Glasgow" and "Kent" in the territorial waters of Chile. After a brief fire exchange, he was severely injured and sunk, but he was eventually unable to escape the fate of being sunk.
Canaris and all the crew were captured and held on a deserted island in Chile.
At this time, Canaris's spy talent came into play. He managed to escape from the island to Chile. He was penniless and got a horse and rode it for hundreds of kilometers. Then, he took out the skills of a mountaineer and crossed the unattainable Andes and escaped into the pro-Germany Argentina .
In the capital of Argentina, Canaris got into the ship of the Neutral country . Since he escaped from that deserted island, after two months of traveling, he returned to his country - Germany, legendarily.
When he finally returned to Berlin , his experience of escaping thousands of miles attracted great attention from the German naval intelligence department where he belonged.
In May of that year, Canaris was promoted to naval captain and served as liaison officer of the German Navy. At the end of the year, he was ordered to go to the Spanish capital Madrid .
At that time, Spain was a neutral country in Europe. The intelligence war between the Allies and the Allies in Spain was extremely fierce. In order to strengthen their strength there, the German Admiralty sent Canaris to Spain for intelligence work.
Canaris changed from a German navy officer to a military spy affiliated with the German navy. His first spy mission was to monitor the activities of the Allied warships in the Strait of Gibraltar and collect relevant information from the enemy's navy.
At that time, countries such as Spain and Portugal were ostensibly neutral, but they were secretly inclined toward Germany, and German submarine often supplemented supply in their ports.
The task that German intelligence agency asked Canaris to complete was actually an internship assessment for him.
Not long after, Canaris received a notice that his mission in Spain ended and he immediately returned to the German Admiralty to accept a new mission. Canaris boarded the train to Germany.
Unfortunately, he was detained by the Italians when he passed through the junction of Swiss and Italy.
The Italians identified him as a German agent and were preparing to hand him over to the French authorities.
Although the Italians considered him a German agent, they did not regard him as an important person, so they did not take care of him very tightly. Canaris deserves his talent as a spy. When the Italians were not careful, Canaris, who was like a loach, slipped away from their fingers.
In March 1916, Canaris was sent to Spain again. This time, he started his first tit-for-tat contest with his future rival, the British ace spy Stewart Menzies. At this time, they were just ordinary spies from Germany and Britain in Spain. More than ten years later, the two of them became the leaders of their respective intelligence departments in Germany and Britain respectively. In " World War II ", this pair of enemies fought openly and secretly and had fought countless times.
British Military Intelligence Six Director Menzies
And this time in Spain, they were about to show their talents to start a battle between soldiers.
The cause of this incident was a German telegram intercepted by the British. The telegram was sent to the German Navy's intelligence station in Madrid to the German Navy. It turned out that Canaris was seriously ill shortly after arriving in Spain. The German intelligence station in Madrid asked to send a submarine to take Canaris back to his country for treatment.
The British Admiralty, who intercepted the telegram, was overjoyed and ordered two British submarines operating in this sea to prepare for attack. As soon as the German submarine that came to pick up Canaris arrived, it sank it on the spot.
To this end, the British Admiralty ordered the spy team in Madrid led by Menzies to closely monitor Canaris' movements so that he could timely grasp the time and place of his boarding. Only in this way can the submarines that came to pick him up can be intercepted.
Menzies, who received the order from the British Admiralty, immediately arranged his agent to closely monitor Canaris' whereabouts.
However, the British's mobilization this time was in vain. Although Canaris did not know that the British were casting a net on him, and he wanted to catch him and the German submarine who picked him up like fish, the nature of the spy made his whereabouts look elusive. Canaris, disguised himself, slipped out of the port on a small fishing boat, stepped on the German submarine who picked him up on the sea, and left.
Menzies scored a point first in his first fight with Canaris.
After Hitler came to power, due to Canaris's good performance during the " World War ", he served as the adjutant of the newly formed Ministry of Defense as the Minister of the German Army in the position of the newly formed Ministry of Defense.
After the war, Germany had many parties and many different opinions. Canaris believed that only Hitler's Nazi Party could revive Germany, so he actively participated in Nazi Party activities in Germany and met the second-ranked Nazi Party Goring . Through Goring's recommendation, Hitler met him.
From then on, Canaris used his intelligence resources on the situation of the German army to fully support Hitler to take office.
In 1935, Hitler appointed Canaris as the director of the German Military Intelligence Agency and awarded him the rank of admiral.
Canaris is short and tight-lipped, always nervous but enthusiastic and serious. His behavior is often polite, charitable, sincere, and cautious and tenacious at work. Canaris has blue eyes, which seems to be able to see everything. He is knowledgeable, can speak 6 languages, and speaks very well.
Canaris is a very difficult person to understand. He had a strong patriotic enthusiasm and hoped that Germany would win the war, but he was dissatisfied with Hitler's massacre and purge of the army by Jews. He was also skeptical about whether Germany could win in the war. Later, Canaris clearly established the idea of opposing Hitler, and he secretly tried his best to destroy Hitler's station.
When Hitler was preparing to invade Western European , this invasion plan, known as the "yellow scheme", was revealed to the British side by Major General Hans, the director of the Military Intelligence Agency's office.
and hinted to the UK that once the "yellow plan" is implemented, a coup will be launched in Germany. However, since this plan was leaked by someone during Rome , Hitler immediately ordered the SS to investigate.
Because Canaris's defense measures were good, it was not discovered. Later, Hitler continued to change the "yellow plan", changing it as many as 28 times, of which 15 times were revealed to the West by Canaris's Military Intelligence Agency.
Because the "yellow scheme" changed too quickly and too much, the West became suspicious of Canaris' credibility, which was believed to be an intelligence work that Hitler intended to do through the Military Scheme Bureau.
There are more than Canaris who oppose Hitler. When Hitler just became Prime Minister, some senior generals in the army expressed dissatisfaction with Hitler.
Nazi German Army Chief of Staff Bak General Beck is the most influential one. He is a conservative nationalist who has very little trust in Hitler and the Nazi Party he led.
When he met with Hitler, he told Hitler that his purpose of accepting a high position was not to build an army that conquers other countries, but to build an army that could defend Germany.
Hitler refuted him that the purpose of the army exists is not for war, and it is impossible to build an army with existential value. The army that prepares for peace does not exist, and the reason why the army exists is to win the war. General Beck reminded Hitler that he had made an oath to President Hindenburg not to bring Germany into another war.
Before leaving, he predicted that if the new war becomes a conflict on multiple fronts, Germany will perish.
German generals who were opposed to Hitler include: Army Commander-in-Chief Valna von Fridge; Defense Minister Wagnari von Blomburg Field Marshal; Foreign Minister Constance Chong Newtonte, etc. They all expressed their disagreement with the idea of launching a war.
However, the crazy Hitler would not listen to their suggestions. Hitler realized that these generals were reluctant to start a war. He believed that these generals were stumbling blocks to his great ideal action, and had already generated the idea of cleaning the army from the bottom of his heart.
Later, these generals who opposed Hitler in person were all purged.
One morning, the "radio supervisor" inspected door to door across the country, so that everyone had to listen to the radio broadcast on time.
What the German people heard was that one famous person after another fell, and the whole country of Germany was shocked by it, and even people from other European countries felt uneasy when they heard it. After
, Hitler completely established a government and army that supported him, and took the sinful steps towards the war of aggression.
Hitler's approach made some people feel dissatisfied and angry, and those who were forced to go behind the scenes or stayed in their original positions by chance began a secret action.
On November 7, 1942, the Allied "Torch" plan was implemented, and landed in a huge arc of combat range from Casablanca to Buriy.
At first, Hitler did not know the direction of the Allied forces' attack. It was not until the early morning of November 8 that Hitler knew exactly the intention of the Allied forces, and he was very shocked.
The "Torch" operation was completely unexpected. What is the reason that Germany has no reliable source of intelligence and notified the German army to prepare in advance?
The Allied forces have been widely deployed, and Germany has discovered that it is just that they do not know what their purpose is. In fact, there are still reports like this.
After the war, Herport Vimanche, the Hamburg Station manager of the German Intelligence Agency, which was mainly targeted by the United States and Britain, had obtained an accurate and timely report from first-class intelligence sources, which said that the target of the Allied forces was French North African .
This report was sent to the Supreme Command in the form of a hundred thousand urgent secret documents. Where did this report go? No one knows.
Canaris, the top leader of the Intelligence Agency, said he didn't know and seemed a little indifferent.
The senior German command then believed how bad the intelligence that Canaris provided to them was. However, no one suspected that he opposed Hitler at the time.
As the war changes, more and more people have seen that Germany will not win in this war.
On the Soviet battlefield, the Soviets' firm belief in defending Leningrad to the death and defending Stalingrad , as well as the courage to resist tenaciously, curbed Germany's rapid advancement momentum on the Soviet battlefield.
In North Africa, the Allies have become increasingly obvious in the upper hand, and the sentiment of failure has quietly spread within Germany.
In early 1943, Hitler's grand strategy was constantly defeated and threatened in various places. When the war was increasingly biased towards allies, more and more people were around Hitler preparing to assassinate him.
General Baker once told Canaris that the decisive moment is coming, and as Hitler continues to defeat the war, our people are constantly increasing.
In February 1943, the opportunity finally came. In Battle of Stalingrad , when German Field Marshal Boros led the remaining more than 90,000 people to surrender to the former Soviet Red Army, as before, Hitler blamed Boros for the failure and said that he should commit suicide and should not let the enemy capture alive.
The generals around Hitler were all indignant of Hitler. The implementers of the "Flash Plan" believed that the time for action had come.
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KrugerAccording to the suggestion of Treskov and Schrabrandolph, Hitler invited Hitler to visit his headquarters, Smolensk, and Hitler agreed.
So, Canaris and Oster pretended to be errands from the Intelligence Agency to visit Kruger's headquarters and make final arrangements for the "Flash Project".
"Flash Plan" is actually very simple, it is to hide a bomb in Hitler's private plane and detonate when he returns from Smolensk.
Treskov and Schrabrandolph made the bomb together, and they wrapped the explosives into two square kvat wines. To make the bomb explode, you only need to press a small button, and a small bottle will be broken and the corrosive acid inside will flow onto a metal wire that holds the striker.
Everything was ready, Hitler came to Smolensk as promised, and Kruger and Treskov greeted him at the airport.
During lunch, Treskov walked to a Hitler's entourage and asked him to bring two bottles of wine to General Steve in Berlin. The entourage agreed.
After lunch, Hitler and Kruger talked about it for nearly an hour, and then prepared to set off for Lustenburg.
When he boarded the plane, Schrabrandolff activated the bomb's detonation device, and the small bottle containing the corrosive acid was broken...
The bomb did not explode, and the plane landed intact in Lustenburg. The people of the "Flash Plan" couldn't help but be stunned. They didn't know what was the reason that shattered the plan.
In short, they lost a good opportunity. Later, according to Hitler's pilot, they encountered clouds and turbulence after they left Smolensk. In order not to make Hitler feel uncomfortable, he flew the plane to a higher altitude. In this way, the temperature of the luggage compartment wrapped in the bomb dropped sharply, freezing the corrosion acid.
Hitler escaped the first disaster by luck. The failure of the "Flash Plan" did not stop opponents from assassinating Hitler.
July 20, 1944, the weather was beautiful and sunny, it was a dull day. However, in Nazi Germany, another case that shocked the world occurred, a young anti-Hitler army group assassinated Hitler on this day.
German Reserve Army Chief of Staff Staofenberg In the conference room of the headquarters of Hitler's eastern battlefield, he placed a leather bag with a time bomb under the conference table and near Hitler's seat. Because the leather bag was moved unintentionally, when the bomb exploded, it did not achieve its goal, and Hitler suffered only a little bit of minor injuries.
Although both assassination plans were in vain, the action shocked Germany and the world because it marked Hitler's end.
Not only did the German army retreat step by step on the eastern battlefield, but the defeat was decided, but Hitler also lost the hearts of the people at home, and even reached the point of being murdered.
