Comments by "Alan Pennie" (@alanpennie8013) on "How effective was Wilhelm Canaris & the German resistance?" video.

  1.  @dixiewhiskey3273  I think it was The Russians Partial control of the prison gave them a listening post in West Berlin.
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  2. Spandau Prison, where Hess was the only prisoner in the 1980s.
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  3.  @nkristianschmidt  Around 100,000 in June 1935 according to my source (Jane Caplan ed, Nazi Germany, p.136.) I doubt it was much different in 1939.
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  4. You more inclined to read Luther probably.
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  5.  @climberly  It's simply a fact that Luther was a raging anti-Semite.
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  6. According to Richard Sreigmann - Gall, who is the main authority on these matters, Confessional Lutherans were most likely to embrace Nazi values of all the German churches.
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  7.  @TheImperatorKnight  I like the theory that the British ordered the assassination of Heydrich to protect Canaris. If it's true they clearly regarded him as a valuable asset.
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  8. He was among those killed in the wake of the Stauffenberg Plot.
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  9. The SPD maintained a well organised underground (The Sopade) throughout the Nazi period. It's best known for its surveys of German public opinion, which post - war historians have found useful.
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