The Oster Conspiracy of 1938
By Terry Parssinen (2003)
1. As Hitler pressed for war against Czechoslovakia in 1938, Hans Oster, a senior member of Germany's military counterintelligence and a committed opponent of the Nazis, formed a snatch squad to kill him. Author Terry Parssinen traces the fate of this plot and of the German officer who planned it. The operation was to take place in the 48 hours between the time Hitler gave the order to invade Czechoslovakia and the time the German tanks began to roll. Mr. Parssinen's compelling history establishes Oster as the key anti-Nazi figure in Germany's prewar military. His acts of resistance continued after the war began. Oster passed military secrets to the Dutch, warning them that Hitler was about to sweep west—messages that Dutch intelligence viewed as a trap and ignored.
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