Admiral Canaris "fulfilled a patriotic duty" to depose a maniacal despot leading his nation into disaster.

Sep. 22/23, 2006 -- With the current debate on the war crimes of top officials of the Bush administration it is noteworthy to look back at the final coded comments of German Admiral Wilhelm Canaris before his execution for helping a plot to overthrow Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Canaris, Commander of the German Military Defense Command during World War II, was executed in Flossenbuerg Concentration Camp in April 1945 after an unsuccessful military coup against Hitler. The DPA German Press Agency reported that, according to Canaris biographer Karl Heinz Abshagen, Canaris tapped a final message on the wall to a Danish inmate in the neighboring cell: "You as an officer will understand, that I was only fulfilling my patriotic duty when I tried to step up against the criminal senselessness of Hitler, leading Germany into disaster."
Admiral Canaris "fulfilled a patriotic duty" to depose a maniacal despot leading his nation into disaster.

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