Hanging is a very cruel form of death in history, so did you know that there was a person who was sent to the gallows twice?
He was Wilhelm Canaris, a naval admiral in Nazi Germany during World War II.
Born in 1887 in Dortmund, Germany, to the son of a wealthy merchant, Kanaris believed his family was related to the 19th-century Greek admiral Konstantin Canalis, a belief that led him to join the Imperial German Navy.
During World War II, Canaris was appointed Admiral of the German Navy and head of the German military intelligence apparatus, so he had access to all information about the German headquarters, including all the actions of the SS troops.
Although he supported Hitler in his early days, in 1939 he turned "back" and quietly maintained close contact with the British, informing them of German military plans, including the bombing of London.
Kanaris (pictured below) also stepped in to save some Jews from harm, such as helping 500 Dutch Jews get safe in 1941.
However, there were no impermeable walls under the heavens, and in 1944, Canaris was arrested for "treason" and sent to the gallows in July of the same year.
At that time, Kaltenbrenner, the leader of the superior group of SS, ordered the soldiers to hang Kanalis, but after only a few seconds of hanging, the rope was cut, and Kaltenbrenner asked Kanaris if he had tasted death.
The Nazis did not immediately kill Kanaris because Hitler believed that he also had intelligence from Britain, which was very important to the German army.
However, no matter how much the Germans tortured Kanaris, he did not do so, so in April 1945, Kanaris was sent to the gallows for the second time, but this time the rope was not broken.