biography
pronunciation:
[oster]
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1888–1945)
|
| biography:
| German general and resistance fighter, born in Dresden, E Germany. A member of the military defence (Abwehr), he became a leading force in the anti-Hitler resistance together with Wilhelm Canaris and Ludwig Beck, passing on the dates of the German invasion of the Netherlands and Norway (1939–40) to their respective governments. Transferred to the Führerreserve (1943) and later dismissed (1944), he was arrested in 1944 and executed at KZ Flossenbürg in 1945. |
|
|
