Dirk,
coincidentely I replied recently to the question of someone on Passion Histoire about Hans Oster.
http://passion-histoire.net/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=41606 As you and Nielsen understand German:
and it is also in the French message:
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Personenregister/O/OsterHans.htmhttps://www.dhm.de/lemo/biografie/biografie-hans-oster.htmlWie sein Vorgesetzter Canaris ist Oster aus einer nationalkonservativen Haltung heraus ein Gegner Adolf Hitlers. Er beteiligt sich während der Sudetenkrise an Umsturzplänen innerhalb der militärischen Führung, um einen Krieg zu verhindern.In the time of the BBC I had some exchanges with the German Thomas, if someone recalls him. He asked me why Hans Oster was my favourite, while in his opinion it was not such an extraordinary one. I answered that he had been consequentely against Hitler and the Nazis during his whole life until his murder in 1944 by the Nazis. I agree Canaris was also murdered, but during his whole carreer, he was against Nazism, but only helped all the conspirators from the "sideline", as some Generals, who when Hitler had success turned their coat (keerden hun kazak...kazakkendraaiers...
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http://www.vlaamswoordenboek.be/definities/term/zijn%20kazak%20keren[/url]As in the conspiracy of 1938...
But in an exeption to the others, Oster stayed the whole war steadfast about his ideals. He went even that far, that he via the Dutch Major Sas, warned the allies of each date for the invasion. But the sad thing that they were real, but that they each time were postponed for some reason, as for bad weather...in fact more than twenty times...until 10 May and Oster warned too, but at the end they didn't believe him anymore...read from the Belgian historian Van Welkenhuyzen about it in the French thread, but it is in French...
If you want to read the book from Heinz Höhne it is available in English too. and in fact I read it for the BBC not in German, but in English from the local library
https://www.amazon.com/Canaris-Hitlers-Master-Heinz-Hohne/dp/0815410077And indirectly is there the whole story of Hans Oster told too.
Kind regards from Paul.
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