Sunday, November 5, 1939 - Zossen conspiracy collapses

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In Berlin... After plotting with Halder and Beck to arrest Hitler, unless he relents on the plan for a western offensive, the Commander in Chief of the German Army, von Brauchitsch, meets Hitler to discuss the plans for an attack in the west. He argues very strongly that it should not take place as scheduled on November 12th because of weaknesses in the army. Hitler loses his temper during the meeting but is unconvinced by the arguments. Brauchitsch loses his nerve and returns to OKH (Army High Command) headquarters at Zossen, where the conspiracy collapses. Meanwhile, Colonel Hans Oster of the Abwehr (German Military Intelligence) -- one of the Zossen conspirators -- warns Colonel Sas, the Dutch military attache in Berlin, of the impending invasion of the Low Countries. Sas informs the Belgian military attache.

In Oslo... The German government lodges a protest against the release of the interned City of Flint and the German prize crew. The protest is rejected.

In Paris... Churchill, British First Lord of the Admiralty, visits the French Marine Headquarters.

In Moscow... Finnish-Soviet negotiations continue. The Finnish delegation reports to Helsinki and asks for further instructions.
 
Colonel Hans Oster of the Abwehr (German Military Intelligence) -- one of the Zossen conspirators --


Hans Oster was one of the leaders of the resistance between 1938 and 1943.

In 1943, the group's efforts to rescue Jews were discovered by the Gestapo with the arrest of Hans von Dohnanyi and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the "Operation 7."

He was arrested a day after the July 20 plot as the diaries of Admiral Canaris were discovered, Hitler ordered the execution of the conspirators.

On April 8, 1945 along with Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Wilhelm Canaris and others at court-martial presided over by Otto Thorbeck were hanged in Flossenbürg.

They were forced to climb the scaffold naked and hung them with piano wire to prolong the agony. Two weeks after the camp was liberated by the Allies.
 
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