Canaris was tangentially caught in the Lohmann affair, a clandestine naval scheme involving a film company whose financial failure exposed the cost of treaty-evasion activities. In a new posting, he discovered the scale of the losses attributed to the enterprise. The scandal tarnished him and led to his removal from the intelligence post in 1928. Two years of conventional service aboard a pre-dreadnought eventually led to ship command by 1932, showing how the setback interrupted his intelligence career without ending it.
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The Lohmann affair and Canaris's return to sea service
The financial collapse of a clandestine naval scheme tarnished Canaris and displaced him from intelligence work into two years aboard a pre-dreadnought.