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(1888-1945) '''Hans Oster''' was a German Army officer in the First World War, a staff officer during the interwar period, and rose to become the main operations officer of the [[Abwehr]] military intelligence agency and a major figure in the [[German Resistance]]. He was dismissed for anti-Nazi activities, and eventually executed at [[Flossenburg Concentration Camp]]. | (1888-1945) '''Hans Oster''' was a German Army officer in the First World War, a staff officer during the interwar period, and rose to become the main operations officer of the [[Abwehr]] military intelligence agency and a major figure in the [[German Resistance]]. He was dismissed for anti-Nazi activities, and eventually executed at [[Flossenburg Concentration Camp]]. | ||
He is believed to have been a major intelligence source for the Soviet [[Lucy Ring]], as well as participating in efforts to rescue Jews. | Oster committed to subvert the Nazis on 7 November 1939, when he gave the German plans for the invasion of the West to a Dutch military attache. "There is no going back after what I have done. It is much easier to take a pistol and kill somebody; it is easier to run into a burst of machine gun fire than it is to do what I have done." While the information he gave was correct, Dutch intelligence did not take the warning seriously; Hitler changed the invasion date twenty-nine times. <ref>{{citation | ||
| title = Red Orchestra: the story of the Berlin underground and the circle of friends ... | |||
| author = Anne Nelson | year = 2009 | publisher = Random House | |||
| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=coB59s5Hv2IC&pg=PA1888&lpg=PA1888&dq=%22Hans+Oster%22+tradecraft&source=bl&ots=SINNgahv7u&sig=gYwEEVE40d7TEPw9SDjeTkRGB5k&hl=en&ei=2ybxTMCoJIP-8AbfqbHeDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Hans%20Oster%22%20&f=false | |||
}}</ref>He is believed to have been a major intelligence source for the Soviet [[Lucy Ring]], as well as participating in efforts to rescue Jews. <ref>{{citation | |||
| url = https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol13no3/html/v13i3a05p_0001.htm | |||
| title = The Rote Drei: Getting Behind the 'Lucy' Myth | |||
| volume = 13 | issue = 3 | date = declassified September 1993 | |||
| author = Mark A. Tittenhofer | |||
| journal = Studies in Intelligence, [[Central Intelligence Agency]]}}</ref> | |||
Manfred Roeder, | [[Manfred Roeder]], an Army investigator into the [[Abwehr]] and the [[Red Orchestra]], first discovered Oster's activities as part of a search at Abwehr headquarters, originally focused on the activities of [[Hans von Dohnanyi]] at the Vatican, discovered Oster's activities and forced his dismissal.<ref>{{citation | ||
| Bodyguard of Lies: The Extraordinary True Story Behind D-Day | |||
| author - Anthony Cave Brown | |||
| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=Q0UBW_KysgMC&pg=PA302&lpg=PA302&dq=%22Manfred+Roeder%22+Gestapo&source=bl&ots=lNDNYlxFIm&sig=W_Qtdn2tBLIsgoCYIgJCD1bjGtw&hl=en&ei=rCnxTJG8GcKC8gaVjOXzCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Manfred%20Roeder%22%20Gestapo&f=false | |||
}}, pp. 302-304</ref> | |||
==References== | |||
{{reflist|2}} | |||
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(1888-1945) Hans Oster was a German Army officer in the First World War, a staff officer during the interwar period, and rose to become the main operations officer of the Abwehr military intelligence agency and a major figure in the German Resistance. He was dismissed for anti-Nazi activities, and eventually executed at Flossenburg Concentration Camp.
Oster committed to subvert the Nazis on 7 November 1939, when he gave the German plans for the invasion of the West to a Dutch military attache. "There is no going back after what I have done. It is much easier to take a pistol and kill somebody; it is easier to run into a burst of machine gun fire than it is to do what I have done." While the information he gave was correct, Dutch intelligence did not take the warning seriously; Hitler changed the invasion date twenty-nine times. [1]He is believed to have been a major intelligence source for the Soviet Lucy Ring, as well as participating in efforts to rescue Jews. [2]
Manfred Roeder, an Army investigator into the Abwehr and the Red Orchestra, first discovered Oster's activities as part of a search at Abwehr headquarters, originally focused on the activities of Hans von Dohnanyi at the Vatican, discovered Oster's activities and forced his dismissal.[3]
References
- ↑ Anne Nelson (2009), Red Orchestra: the story of the Berlin underground and the circle of friends ..., Random House
- ↑ Mark A. Tittenhofer (declassified September 1993), "The Rote Drei: Getting Behind the 'Lucy' Myth", Studies in Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency 13 (3)
- ↑ , pp. 302-304