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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2004-0007%2C_Hans_Oster_%28cropped%29.jpg/250px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2004-0007%2C_Hans_Oster_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="348" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2004-0007%2C_Hans_Oster_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2004-0007%2C_Hans_Oster_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2004-0007%2C_Hans_Oster_%28cropped%29.jpg/500px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2004-0007%2C_Hans_Oster_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="792" /></a><figcaption>Hans Oster in 1939</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>Oster Conspiracy</b>, also called the <b>September Conspiracy</b> (<a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>: <i lang="de">Septemberverschwörung</i>), of 1938 was a proposed plan to overthrow German <i><a href="/wiki/F%C3%BChrer" title="Führer">Führer</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi regime</a> if Germany went to war with <a href="/wiki/Czechoslovakia" title="Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakia</a> over the <a href="/wiki/Sudetenland" title="Sudetenland">Sudetenland</a>. It was led by <a href="/wiki/Generalmajor" title="Generalmajor">Generalmajor</a> <a href="/wiki/Hans_Oster" title="Hans Oster">Hans Oster</a>, deputy head of the <i><a href="/wiki/Abwehr" title="Abwehr">Abwehr</a></i>, and other high-ranking conservatives within the <a href="/wiki/Wehrmacht" title="Wehrmacht">Wehrmacht</a> who opposed the regime for behavior that was threatening to bring Germany into a war that they believed it was not ready to fight.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones200873–74_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones200873–74-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They planned to overthrow Hitler and the Nazi regime through a storming of the <a href="/wiki/Reich_Chancellery" title="Reich Chancellery">Reich Chancellery</a> by forces loyal to the plot to take control of the government, who would either arrest or assassinate Hitler, and restore the Monarchy under <a href="/wiki/Prince_Wilhelm_of_Prussia_(1906%E2%80%931940)" title="Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1906–1940)">Prince Wilhelm of Prussia</a>, the grandson of <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_II,_German_Emperor" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilhelm II, German Emperor">Wilhelm II</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oster_conspiracy&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The plot was organised and developed by then <a href="/wiki/Oberstleutnant" title="Oberstleutnant">Oberstleutnant</a> <a href="/wiki/Hans_Oster" title="Hans Oster">Hans Oster</a> and Major <a href="/wiki/Helmuth_Groscurth" title="Helmuth Groscurth">Helmuth Groscurth</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Abwehr" title="Abwehr">Abwehr</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMueller2017_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMueller2017-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They drew into the conspiracy such people as <a href="/wiki/Generaloberst" title="Generaloberst">Generaloberst</a> <a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Beck" title="Ludwig Beck">Ludwig Beck</a>, General <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Adam_(general)" title="Wilhelm Adam (general)">Wilhelm Adam</a>, Generaloberst <a href="/wiki/Walther_von_Brauchitsch" title="Walther von Brauchitsch">Walther von Brauchitsch</a>, Generaloberst <a href="/wiki/Franz_Halder" title="Franz Halder">Franz Halder</a>, <a href="/wiki/Admiral_(Germany)#German_navies_until_1945" title="Admiral (Germany)">Admiral</a> <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Canaris" title="Wilhelm Canaris">Wilhelm Canaris</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Generalleutnant" title="Generalleutnant">Generalleutnant</a> <a href="/wiki/Erwin_von_Witzleben" title="Erwin von Witzleben">Erwin von Witzleben</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Enzensberger_2008_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Enzensberger_2008-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The working plan was for Count <a href="/wiki/Hans-J%C3%BCrgen_von_Blumenthal" title="Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal">Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal</a> to lead a storm party into the Reich Chancellery and kill Hitler. It would then be necessary to neutralize the Nazi Party apparatus in order to stop them from proceeding with the invasion of <a href="/wiki/Czechoslovakia" title="Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakia</a>, which they believed would lead to a war that would ruin Germany.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones2008_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones2008-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition to these military figures, the conspirators also had contact with Secretary of State <a href="/wiki/Ernst_von_Weizs%C3%A4cker" title="Ernst von Weizsäcker">Ernst von Weizsäcker</a> and the diplomats Theodor Kordt, <a href="/wiki/Erich_Kordt" title="Erich Kordt">Erich Kordt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hans_Bernd_Gisevius" title="Hans Bernd Gisevius">Hans Bernd Gisevius</a>. Theodor Kordt was considered a vital contact with the British on whom the success of the plot depended; the conspirators needed strong British opposition to Hitler's seizure of the Sudetenland. However, <a href="/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain" title="Neville Chamberlain">Neville Chamberlain</a>, apprehensive of the possibility of war, negotiated at length with Hitler and <a href="/wiki/Munich_Agreement" title="Munich Agreement">eventually conceded</a> strategic areas of Czechoslovakia to him. Poland also invaded Czechoslovakia on 1 October 1938. This destroyed any chance of the plot succeeding, as Hitler was then seen in Germany as the "greatest statesman of all times at the moment of his greatest triumph", and the immediate risk of war had been neutralized.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMueller2017_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMueller2017-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Participants">Participants</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oster_conspiracy&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Participants"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Data from Parsinnen (2012)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEParssinen201220–22_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEParssinen201220–22-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Conspirators">The Conspirators</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oster_conspiracy&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The Conspirators"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Adam_(general)" title="Wilhelm Adam (general)">Adam, General of Infantry Wilhelm</a>, commander of <a href="/wiki/Siegfried_Line" title="Siegfried Line">Germany's "West Wall"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Beck" title="Ludwig Beck">Beck, Colonel General Ludwig</a>, former chief of the Army General Staff</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walther_von_Brauchitsch" title="Walther von Brauchitsch">Brauchitsch, Colonel General Walther von</a>, commander in chief of the army</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_von_Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt" title="Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt">Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt, General Walter, Graf von</a>, commander of <a href="/wiki/23rd_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="23rd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">Twenty-third Division</a>, Potsdam; subordinate of <a href="/wiki/Erwin_von_Witzleben" title="Erwin von Witzleben">General Erwin von Witzleben</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Canaris" title="Wilhelm Canaris">Canaris, Admiral Wilhelm</a>, chief of the Abwehr (Military Intelligence)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans_von_Dohnanyi" title="Hans von Dohnanyi">Dohnanyi, Hans von</a>, Ministry of Justice</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans_Bernd_Gisevius" title="Hans Bernd Gisevius">Gisevius, Hans-Bernd</a>, Department of the Interior</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Goerdeler" title="Carl Friedrich Goerdeler">Goerdeler, Carl</a>, former mayor of <a href="/wiki/Leipzig" title="Leipzig">Leipzig</a> and former Reich price commissioner</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helmuth_Groscurth" title="Helmuth Groscurth">Groscurth, Lieutenant Colonel Helmuth</a>, Abwehr</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franz_Halder" title="Franz Halder">Halder, General of Artillery Franz</a>, chief of the Army General Staff</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_von_Hase" title="Paul von Hase">Hase, Major General Paul von</a>, commander of Fiftieth Infantry Regiment (<a href="/wiki/Gorz%C3%B3w_Wielkopolski" title="Gorzów Wielkopolski">Landsberg an der Warthe</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_Heinz" class="extiw" title="de:Friedrich Wilhelm Heinz">Heinz, Captain Friedrich Wilhelm</a>, Abwehr</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolf-Heinrich_Graf_von_Helldorff" title="Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff">Helldorf, Wolf, Graf von</a>, police president, Berlin</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erich_Hoepner" title="Erich Hoepner">Hoepner, General of Artillery Erich</a>, commander, First Light Division</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ewald_von_Kleist-Schmenzin" title="Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin">Kleist-Schmenzin, Ewald von (the elder)</a>, Prussian aristocrat</li> <li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%BCnther_von_Kluge" title="Günther von Kluge">Kluge, General of Artillery Hans Gunther von</a>, commander of <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrkreis_VI_(M%C3%BCnster)" class="extiw" title="de:Wehrkreis VI (Münster)">Wehrkreis VI (Münster)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erich_Kordt" title="Erich Kordt">Kordt, Erich</a>, chief of Ministerial Office, German Foreign Ministry, brother of Theo</li> <li><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Kordt" class="extiw" title="de:Theodor Kordt">Kordt, Theo</a>, counselor, German Embassy, London, brother of Erich</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franz_Maria_Liedig" title="Franz Maria Liedig">Liedig, Lieutenant Franz Maria</a>, Abwehr</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_List" title="Wilhelm List">List, General of Infantry Wilhelm</a>, commander, <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrkreis_IV_(Dresden)" class="extiw" title="de:Wehrkreis IV (Dresden)">Wehrkreis IV (Dresden)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Nebe" title="Arthur Nebe">Nebe, Arthur</a>, chief of Criminal Police</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Olbricht" title="Friedrich Olbricht">Olbricht, Lieutenant General Friedrich</a>, chief of staff to General List, <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrkreis_IV_(Dresden)" class="extiw" title="de:Wehrkreis IV (Dresden)">Wehrkreis IV (Dresden)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans_Oster" title="Hans Oster">Oster, Lieutenant Colonel Hans</a>, Abwehr, organizer of the conspiracy</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_R%C3%B6hricht" title="Edgar Röhricht">Rohricht, Lieutenant Colonel Edgar</a>, staff officer to Generalleutnant Olbricht</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hjalmar_Schacht" title="Hjalmar Schacht">Schacht, Hjalmar</a>, head of the Reichsbank, former minister of finance</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fabian_von_Schlabrendorff" title="Fabian von Schlabrendorff">Schlabrendorff, Fabian von</a>, lawyer; historian of the resistance movement; not directly involved in the 1938 plot</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fritz-Dietlof_von_der_Schulenburg" title="Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg">Schulenburg, Fritz-Dietlof, Graf von der</a>, vice president, Berlin Police</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Susanne_Simonis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Susanne Simonis (page does not exist)">Simonis, Susanne</a>, reporter for the <a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Allgemeine_Zeitung" title="Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung">Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung</a>, cousin of Erich and Theo Kordt</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodor_Str%C3%BCnck" title="Theodor Strünck">Strünck, Theodor</a>, and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Elisabeth_Gartner-Striinck&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Elisabeth Gartner-Striinck (page does not exist)">Elisabeth Gartner-Striinck</a>, friends of Oster's and sympathizers with the resistance</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carl-Heinrich_von_St%C3%BClpnagel" title="Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel">Stilpnagel, Lieutenant General Carl-Heinrich von</a>, deputy chief of staff II on Army General Staff</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Ulex&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alexander Ulex (page does not exist)">Ulex, General of Artillery Alexander</a>, commander of <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrkreis_XI_(Hannover)" class="extiw" title="de:Wehrkreis XI (Hannover)">XI Army Corps (Hannover)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernst_von_Weizs%C3%A4cker" title="Ernst von Weizsäcker">Weizsäcker, Ernst von</a>, state secretary, German Foreign Ministry</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fritz_Wiedemann" title="Fritz Wiedemann">Wiedemann, Captain Fritz</a>, Hitler's adjutant</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erwin_von_Witzleben" title="Erwin von Witzleben">Witzleben, General of Infantry Erwin von</a>, commander of <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrkreis_III_(Berlin)" class="extiw" title="de:Wehrkreis III (Berlin)">Wehrkreis III (Berlin)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hermann_von_Witzleben&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hermann von Witzleben (page does not exist)">Witzleben, Lieutenant Colonel Hermann von</a>, cousin of Erwin von Witzleben</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Nazis">The Nazis</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oster_conspiracy&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The Nazis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels" title="Joseph Goebbels">Goebbels, Joseph</a>, minister of propaganda</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring" title="Hermann Göring">Göring, Reich Marshal Hermann</a>, commander of the <a href="/wiki/Luftwaffe" title="Luftwaffe">Luftwaffe</a> and Hitler's designated successor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reinhard_Heydrich" title="Reinhard Heydrich">Heydrich, Reinhard</a>, commander of the <a href="/wiki/Sicherheitsdienst" title="Sicherheitsdienst">SD (Sicherheitsdienst—Security Service)</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Gestapo" title="Gestapo">Gestapo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler" title="Heinrich Himmler">Himmler, Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich</a>, commander of the <a href="/wiki/Schutzstaffel" title="Schutzstaffel">SS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Hitler, Adolf</a>, chancellor and fuhrer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernst_Kaltenbrunner" title="Ernst Kaltenbrunner">Kaltenbrunner, Ernst</a>, SD subordinate and, after 1942, successor of Heydrich</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Werner_Lorenz" title="Werner Lorenz">Lorenz, Werner</a>, SD official</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joachim_von_Ribbentrop" title="Joachim von Ribbentrop">Ribbentrop, Joachim von</a>, foreign minister</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_British">The British</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oster_conspiracy&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The British"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Cadogan" title="Alexander Cadogan">Cadogan, Sir Alexander</a>, permanent undersecretary, Foreign Office</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain" title="Neville Chamberlain">Chamberlain, Neville</a>, prime minister</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Churchill, Winston S.</a>, Conservative member of Parliament</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Dawson" title="Geoffrey Dawson">Dawson, Sir Geoffrey</a>, editor in chief, <a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duff_Cooper" title="Duff Cooper">Duff Cooper, Alfred</a>, First Lord of the Admiralty</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Wood,_1st_Earl_of_Halifax" title="Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax">Halifax, Edward Wood, third Viscount Halifax</a>, foreign secretary</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nevile_Henderson" title="Nevile Henderson">Henderson, Sir Nevile</a>, ambassador to Germany</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivone_Kirkpatrick" title="Ivone Kirkpatrick">Kirkpatrick, Sir Ivone</a>, first secretary at British Embassy, Berlin</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Simon,_1st_Viscount_Simon" title="John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon">Simon, Sir John</a>, chancellor of the exchequer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Stanley" title="Oliver Stanley">Stanley, Oliver</a>, president of the Board of Trade</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Vansittart,_1st_Baron_Vansittart" title="Robert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart">Vansittart, Sir Robert</a>, chief diplomatic adviser to the government</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horace_Wilson_(civil_servant)" title="Horace Wilson (civil servant)">Wilson, Sir Horace</a>, chief industrial adviser to the government, confidant of prime minister</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Others">Others</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oster_conspiracy&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Others"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edvard_Bene%C5%A1" title="Edvard Beneš">Beneš, Edvard</a>, president of Czechoslovakia</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Werner_von_Blomberg" title="Werner von Blomberg">Blomberg, Field Marshal Werner von</a>, former war minister</li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89douard_Daladier" title="Édouard Daladier">Daladier, Edouard</a>, prime minister of France</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerhard_Engel" title="Gerhard Engel">Engel, Captain Gerhard</a>, Hitler's army adjutant</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Hermann_Frank" title="Karl Hermann Frank">Frank, Karl Hermann</a>, official of <a href="/wiki/Sudeten_German_Party" title="Sudeten German Party">Sudeten German Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Werner_von_Fritsch" title="Werner von Fritsch">Fritsch, Colonel General Werner von</a>, former commander of the army</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konrad_Henlein" title="Konrad Henlein">Henlein, Konrad</a>, leader of the Sudeten German Party</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Hossbach" title="Friedrich Hossbach">Hossbach, Colonel Friedrich</a>, Hitler's former adjutant</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Jodl" title="Alfred Jodl">Jodl, Major General Alfred</a>, chief of Operations Office, <a href="/wiki/Oberkommando_der_Wehrmacht" title="Oberkommando der Wehrmacht">Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Keitel" title="Wilhelm Keitel">Keitel, General of Artillery Wilhelm</a>, chief of OKW; in fact, Hitler's administrator</li> <li><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curt_Liebmann" class="extiw" title="de:Curt Liebmann">Liebmann, General of Infantry Curt</a>, <a href="/wiki/5th_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="5th Army (Wehrmacht)">Fifth Army</a> commander</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jan_Masaryk" title="Jan Masaryk">Masaryk, Jan</a>, Czech ambassador to Great Britain</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erich_Raeder" title="Erich Raeder">Raeder, Admiral Erich</a>, commander of the navy</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Schmidt_(interpreter)" title="Paul Schmidt (interpreter)">Schmidt, Paul Otto</a>, Hitler's interpreter</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Aftermath">Aftermath</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oster_conspiracy&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Aftermath"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The plotters survived to become leaders of <a href="/wiki/German_resistance_to_Nazism" title="German resistance to Nazism">German resistance to Hitler and Nazism</a> during the <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">Second World War</a>. Oster himself was on active duty until 1943, when placed under house arrest after other Abwehr officers were caught helping Jews to escape Germany.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He and Canaris were executed by hanging in <a href="/wiki/Flossenb%C3%BCrg_concentration_camp" title="Flossenbürg concentration camp">Flossenbürg concentration camp</a> on 9 April 1945. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oster_conspiracy&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Assassination_attempts_on_Adolf_Hitler" title="Assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler">Assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pius_XII_and_the_German_Resistance" class="mw-redirect" title="Pius XII and the German Resistance">Pius XII and the German Resistance</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oster_conspiracy&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones200873–74-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones200873–74_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFJones2008">Jones 2008</a>, pp. 73–74.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMueller2017-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMueller2017_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMueller2017_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMueller2017">Mueller 2017</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Enzensberger_2008-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Enzensberger_2008_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Hans_Magnus_Enzensberger" title="Hans Magnus Enzensberger">Hans Magnus Enzensberger</a>: <i>Hammerstein oder Der Eigensinn. Eine deutsche Geschichte.</i> Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp 2008, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-518-41960-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-518-41960-1">978-3-518-41960-1</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones2008-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones2008_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFJones2008">Jones 2008</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEParssinen201220–22-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEParssinen201220–22_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFParssinen2012">Parssinen 2012</a>, pp. 20–22.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFThomsett2016" class="citation book cs1">Thomsett, Michael (2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Ff3eCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT158"><i>The German Opposition to Hitler: The Resistance, the Underground, and Assassination Plots (1938-1945)</i></a>. Crux Publishing. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-909979-37-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-909979-37-6"><bdi>978-1-909979-37-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+German+Opposition+to+Hitler%3A+The+Resistance%2C+the+Underground%2C+and+Assassination+Plots+%281938-1945%29&rft.pub=Crux+Publishing&rft.date=2016&rft.isbn=978-1-909979-37-6&rft.aulast=Thomsett&rft.aufirst=Michael&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DFf3eCwAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPT158&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOster+conspiracy" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oster_conspiracy&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFJones2008" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Nigel_H._Jones" title="Nigel H. Jones">Jones, Nigel</a> (2008). <i>Countdown to Valkyrie: The July Plot to Assassinate Hitler</i>. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Casemate. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84832-508-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84832-508-1"><bdi>978-1-84832-508-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Countdown+to+Valkyrie%3A+The+July+Plot+to+Assassinate+Hitler&rft.place=Philadelphia%2C+Pennsylvania&rft.pub=Casemate&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-1-84832-508-1&rft.aulast=Jones&rft.aufirst=Nigel&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOster+conspiracy" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFMueller2017" class="citation book cs1">Mueller, Michael (2017). <i>Nazi Spymaster: The Life and Death of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris</i>. 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Czechoslovakia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Western_betrayal#Czechoslovakia" title="Western betrayal">Western betrayal</a>: <i><a href="/wiki/Arms_and_the_Covenant" title="Arms and the Covenant">Arms and the Covenant</a></i> (1938)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Why_England_Slept" title="Why England Slept">Why England Slept</a></i> (1940)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Plots_and_conspiracies230" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Conspiracies_in_ancient_Egypt" title="Conspiracies in ancient Egypt">Ancient Egypt</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harem_conspiracy" title="Harem conspiracy">1155 BC</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catilinarian_conspiracy" title="Catilinarian conspiracy">Roman Republic (63 BC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pisonian_conspiracy" title="Pisonian conspiracy">Roman Empire (65)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coup_of_Kaiserswerth" title="Coup of Kaiserswerth">Holy Roman Empire (1062)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zahiri_Revolt" title="Zahiri Revolt">Mamluk Sultanate (1386)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southampton_Plot" title="Southampton Plot">England (1415)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pazzi_conspiracy" title="Pazzi conspiracy">Florence (1478)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">16th century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amboise_conspiracy" title="Amboise conspiracy">France (1560)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surprise_of_Meaux" title="Surprise of Meaux">France (1567)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1569_Plot" title="1569 Plot">Sweden (1569)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mornay_Plot" title="Mornay Plot">Sweden (1574)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1576_Plot" title="1576 Plot">Sweden (1576)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Babington_Plot" title="Babington Plot">England (1586)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tondo_Conspiracy" title="Tondo Conspiracy">Philippines (1587)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">17th century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>England (1603) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bye_Plot" title="Bye Plot">Bye Plot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Main_Plot" title="Main Plot">Main Plot</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot" title="Gunpowder Plot">England (1605)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Army_Plots_(1641)" title="Army Plots (1641)">England (1641)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magnate_conspiracy" title="Magnate conspiracy">Hungary (1670)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">18th century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_of_Macchia" title="Conspiracy of Macchia">Naples (1701)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cellamare_conspiracy" title="Cellamare conspiracy">France (1718)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atterbury_Plot" title="Atterbury Plot">Great Britain (1721)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1749_Muslim_slave_revolt_plot_in_Malta" title="1749 Muslim slave revolt plot in Malta">Malta (1749)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coup_of_1756" title="Coup of 1756">Sweden (1756)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_of_the_three_Antonios" title="Conspiracy of the three Antonios">Chile (1781)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newburgh_Conspiracy" title="Newburgh Conspiracy">United States (1783)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_of_the_Pintos" title="Conspiracy of the Pintos">Portuguese India (1787)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anjala_conspiracy" title="Anjala conspiracy">Sweden (1788)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1789_Conspiracy" title="1789 Conspiracy">Sweden (1789)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armfelt_Conspiracy" title="Armfelt Conspiracy">Sweden (1793)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gual_and_Espa%C3%B1a_conspiracy" title="Gual and España conspiracy">Venezuela (1797)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_of_the_Machetes" title="Conspiracy of the Machetes">Mexico (1799)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">19th century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Conspiration_des_poignards" title="Conspiration des poignards">France (1800)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pichegru_Conspiracy" title="Pichegru Conspiracy">France (1804)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burr_conspiracy" title="Burr conspiracy">United States (1807)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cato_Street_Conspiracy" title="Cato Street Conspiracy">United Kingdom (1820)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Four_Sergeants_of_La_Rochelle" title="Four Sergeants of La Rochelle">France (1820)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Septembrine_Conspiracy" title="Septembrine Conspiracy">Colombia (1828)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palmero_Conspiracy" title="Palmero Conspiracy">Philippines (1828)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1832_Georgian_plot" title="1832 Georgian plot">Georgia (1832)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">20th century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/La_Conjura" title="La Conjura">Venezuela (1907)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kornilov_affair" title="Kornilov affair">Russia (1917)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polonsky_conspiracy" title="Polonsky conspiracy">Ukraine (1919)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Business_Plot" title="Business Plot">United States (1933)</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Germany (1938)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/20_July_plot" title="20 July plot">Germany (1944)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rawalpindi_conspiracy" title="Rawalpindi conspiracy">Pakistan (1951)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bangkok_Plot" title="Bangkok Plot">Cambodia (1959)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Wilson_conspiracy_theories#The_1968_plot" class="mw-redirect" title="Harold Wilson conspiracy theories">United Kingdom (1968)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Prince_conspiracy" title="Black Prince conspiracy">Libya (1970)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Project_571" title="Project 571">China (1971)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moulay_Bouazza_plot" title="Moulay Bouazza plot">Morocco (1973)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Galaxia" title="Operation Galaxia">Spain (1978)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Quartz" title="Operation Quartz">Zimbabwe (1980)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_Peruvian_coup_attempt" title="1992 Peruvian coup attempt">Peru (1992)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_Pakistani_coup_attempt" title="1995 Pakistani coup attempt">Pakistan (1995)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">21st century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2007_Laotian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_conspiracy_allegation" title="2007 Laotian coup d'état conspiracy allegation">Laos (2007)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_Zimbabwean_alleged_coup_attempt" title="2007 Zimbabwean alleged coup attempt">Zimbabwe (2007)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Ivorian_coup_attempt" title="2012 Ivorian coup attempt">Ivory Coast (2012)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Comorian_coup_attempt" title="2013 Comorian coup attempt">Comoros (2013)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Montenegrin_coup_attempt_allegations" title="2016 Montenegrin coup attempt allegations">Montenegro (2016)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attempts_to_overturn_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election" title="Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election">United States (2020)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Ukrainian_coup_attempt_allegations" title="2021 Ukrainian coup attempt allegations">Ukraine (2021)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_allegations" title="2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo coup d'état allegations">Democratic Republic of the Congo (2022)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Ukrainian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt" class="mw-redirect" title="2022 Ukrainian coup d'état attempt">Ukraine (2022)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_German_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_plot" title="2022 German coup d'état plot">Germany (2022)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Brazilian_coup_plot" title="2022 Brazilian coup plot">Brazil (2022)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_2023_Armenian_coup_attempt_allegations" title="September 2023 Armenian coup attempt allegations">Armenia (2023)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Moldovan_coup_attempt_allegations" title="2023 Moldovan coup attempt allegations">Moldova (2023)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Sierra_Leone_coup_plot" title="2023 Sierra Leone coup plot">Sierra Leone (2023)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Ukrainian_coup_attempt_allegations" title="2024 Ukrainian coup attempt allegations">Ukraine (2024)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Armenian_coup_attempt_allegations" title="2024 Armenian coup attempt allegations">Armenia (2024)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>See also: <span 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