Researching Hans Oster
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 12 people with the Oster surname? In that year Oster was ranked number 3567 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Hans means "form of JOHN - God is gracious" and is of Scandinavian origin.
Records of Hans Oster on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Hans Oster and the Oster Family History
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Hans Oster
Hans Paul Oster (9 August 1887 – 9 April 1945) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany and a leading figure of the anti-Nazi German resistance from 1938 to 1943. As deputy head of the counter-espionage bureau in the Abwehr (German military intelligence), Oster was in a good position to conduct resistance operations under the guise of intelligence work.
He was involved in the Oster Conspiracy of September 1938 and was arrested in 1943 on suspicion of helping Abwehr officers caught helping Jews to escape Germany. After the failed 1944 July Plot on Hitler's life, during interrogation, he named Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, the head of Abwehr, as the "spiritual founder of the Resistance Movement". The Gestapo arrested Canaris and eventually found his diaries, in which Oster's anti-Nazi activities were revealed. In April 1945, he was hanged with Canaris and Dietrich Bonhoeffer at Flossenbürg concentration camp.
Source: Hans Oster, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Oster
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