Hans Oster was deputy head of the Abwehr, under Wilhelm Canaris, and a dedicated opponent of Adolf Hitler and Nazism. He 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 him. The plan was aborted when the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain adopted the policy of appeasement. After the outbreak of the Second World War, … Wikipedia
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