WI Admiral Carnaris, hearing about the bomb at Hitler's HQ, manages to get his family and himself to Switzerland?
WI Admiral Carnaris, hearing about the bomb at Hitler's HQ, manages to get his family and himself to Switzerland?
If somehow Canaris is proven to have aided the Brits or Allies in a solid way then he would be rehabilitated & have deeper participation in 1950s German politics, or military matters. This is probablly not going to happen, but there is a small possibility, so I bring it up anyway.
Canaris did have a sucessfull navy career. Including sea command. Until the Abwehr chieftanship came along intel had been a sideline for him. There is a possibility he would have a twilight career rebuilding the German navy in the 1950s.
I'm sorry, but, what?! For starters the head of an intelligence agency is a government granted appointment, not a publicly elected one, and by this point there were few nazi supporters in government, so that wouldn't matter, and finally former nazis aren't allowed to hold such positions, so there's a comparatively short list of people to pick from anyway.