Hans Oster Military person
Hans Paul Oster (9 August 1887 – 9 April 1945) was a German Army general who was also a leading figure of the German resistance from 1938 to 1943. As deputy head of the counter-espionage bureau (Abwehr), Oster was in a strong position to conduct resistance operations under the guise of intelligence work. But he was dismissed for helping Jews to avoid arrest. And after the failed July Plot on Hitler’s life, the Gestapo seized the diaries of Wilhelm Canaris, in which Oster’s treachery was revealed. In April 1945, he was hanged with Canaris and Dietrich Bonhoeffer at Flossenbürg concentration camp.
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| allegiance | German Empire Weimar Germany Nazi Germany |
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| service start | 1907 |
| service end | 1907 |