Canaris and fears for postwar Germany

Could Wilhelm Canaris have worked with Catholic and British intelligence to extract anti-Nazis from Germany?

Covert cooperation is plausible given Canaris's concern for Germany's survival, but it remains speculation.

Covert cooperation is plausible because Canaris looked beyond the Nazi regime and feared Germany's destruction or partition. French and other Allied proposals contemplated territorial losses or a deliberately weak federal structure. Those plans lost force as the emerging confrontation with Stalin made a viable western Germany strategically useful.