The neighbor’s children laughed and ran around and it was a joy to watch them, but Canaris still felt heavy-hearted. There was so much to do, so many things going wrong. He was head of the abwehr, the German intelligence, and he was one of the few people who had a clear view of what was going on in Germany. He also knew that he would have to make a choice, and that choice would be soon. He needed to know if he had support among his colleagues at the abwehr, and among the allies in Britain, France and America. It would be dangerous. Hitler had already ransacked his offices because he wanted to make sure Canaris’s army officers would not warn their Polish officer comrades about attacks.
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