Hans Oster

Who was Hans Oster?

Hans Paul Oster was a German Army general, an opponent of Adolf Hitler and Nazism, and a leading figure of the German resistance from 1938 to 1943. As deputy head of the Abwehr, Oster was in a strong position to conduct resistance operations under the guise of intelligence work. But after the failed July Plot on Hitler’s life, the diaries of Wilhelm Canaris were seized, and Oster’s treachery revealed. In April 1945, he was hanged at Flossenbürg concentration camp, with Canaris and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.