- He was initially a major supporter of Adolf Hitler. Canaris first suggested using the Star of David to identify Jews in 1935, and he was instrumental in persuading Hitler to intervene in the Spanish Civil War. He only turned against Hitler by 1939 because he knew Germany would lose a major war.
- Was a German admiral, and chief of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944.
- In 1956, the German High Court ruled that his trial had been enough to render the executions legal. The high court judges also held that the killings were legal because the Nazi regime had possessed the right to execute traitors.
- He was 5' 3¾" (1.62 m) tall.
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