Hans Oster (August 9, 1887 – April 9, 1945) was deputy head of the Abwehr, under Wilhelm Canaris, and a dedicated opponent of Adolf Hitler and Nazism. Events 48 BC - Caesar's civil war: Battle of Pharsalus - Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus Year 1887 ( MDCCCLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 193 - Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans) Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar The Abwehr was a German intelligence organization from 1921 to 1944 Wilhelm Franz Canaris ( January 1, 1887 &ndash April 9, 1945) was a German Admiral and head of the Abwehr Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! Please understand that this article is frequently vandalized and vandalism is reverted immediately Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German

Originally from Dresden, Saxony, Oster served as an officer on the German General Staff during World War I. Dresden (etymologically from Old Sorbian Drežďany, meaning people of the riverside forest, Drježdźany is the Capital city of the German The Kingdom of Saxony (Königreich Sachsen lasting between 1806 and 1918 was an independent member of a number of historical confederacies in Napoleonic through post-Napoleonic The German General Staff ( Großer Generalstab literally Great General Staff) was an institution whose rise and development gave the German military a decided World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All

Oster was a central resistance figure; as early as 1937 he was plotting a coup against Hitler, whereby Count Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal and other officers would march into the Reich Chancellery and arrest the Nazi leader. The German Resistance refers to those individuals and groups in Nazi Germany who opposed the regime of Adolf Hitler between 1933 and 1945 Hans-Jürgen Graf von Blumenthal ( February 23, 1907 - October 13, 1944) was a German Aristocrat and Army The Reich Chancellery ( German Reichskanzlei) was the traditional name of the office of the German Chancellor The plan was aborted when the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain adopted the policy of appeasement. See also Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain (Breatainn Mhòr Prydain Fawr Breten Veur Graet Breetain is the larger of the two main islands This article is about the government position For other uses see Prime Minister (disambiguation. Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 &ndash 9 November 1940 was a British Conservative Politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

After the outbreak of the Second World War, Oster informed his friend Bert Sas, the Netherlands' military attaché in Berlin, more than twenty times of the exact date of the repeatedly delayed invasion of the Netherlands. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Bert Sas (1 August 1892 - 20 October 1948 was the Netherlands Military attaché in Berlin at the time of the German invasion of the Netherlands The Battle of the Netherlands (Slag om Nederland was part of Case Yellow (Fall Gelb the German invasion of the Low Countries ( Belgium Sas passed the information through to his government but was not believed. In 1943, after growing mistrust and accusations of aiding Jews, Oster was dismissed from his post. PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ He was arrested one day after the failed July 20 Plot to assassinate Hitler, and on April 8, 1945, he was given a show trial, along with Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Wilhelm Canaris. Events 217 - Roman Emperor Caracalla is Assassinated (and succeeded by his Praetorian Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar The term show trial is a pejorative description of a type of highly Public trial. Dietrich Bonhoeffer ˈdiːtrɪç ˈboːnhøfɐ ( February 4, 1906 &ndash April 9, 1945) was a German Lutheran Wilhelm Franz Canaris ( January 1, 1887 &ndash April 9, 1945) was a German Admiral and head of the Abwehr They were convicted and sentenced to death.

The following day Oster, Bonhoeffer and Canaris were hanged in Flossenbürg concentration camp. Hanging is the lethal suspension of a person by a ligature The Oxford English Dictionary states that hanging in this sense is "specifically to put to death Flossenbürg was a Nazi concentration camp built in May 1938 by the Schutzstaffel (SS Economic-Administrative Main Office at Flossenbürg, in the Oster was forced to strip naked before being taken to the gallows. A gallows is a frame typically wooden used for execution by Hanging. The camp was liberated a few days later by American forces. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the

Fabian von Schlabrendorff, one of the few major coordinators of anti-Nazi activities to survive the war, described Oster as "a man such as God meant men to be, lucid and serene in mind, imperturbable in danger. Fabian von Schlabrendorff ( 1 July 1907 in Halle an der Saale – 3 September 1980 in Wiesbaden) trained as a lawyer later "^[1]

Further reading

Roger Moorhouse, "Killing Hitler", Jonathan Cape, 2006. Roger Moorhouse (born 1968 is a British historian and author Though born in Stockport, Cheshire he was raised in Hertfordshire and was educated at Berkhamsted School
Terry Parssinen, "The Oster Conspiracy of 1938", Harper Collins, 2004.
Joachim Fest, "Plotting Hitler's Death: The German Resistance to Hitler, 1933-1945", Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1996

See also

• List of members of the July 20 Plot

Footnotes

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