Hans Oster
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Hans Paul Oster was a German general in the Wehrmacht and a leading figure in the military resistance to Adolf Hitler. As deputy head of the counter‑espionage bureau in the Abwehr, he used his positio
Oster in 1939
Memorial to members of the resistance, including Oster, executed at Flossenbürg.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the sec
Hans Oster
…1943, the Abwehr group's clandestine efforts to rescue Jews were exposed by the Gestapo and Oster was dismissed from his post. Hans von Dohnanyi and Dietrich Bonhoeffer—the Lutheran theologian and Dohnanyi's brother-in-law—had helped 14 Jews flee to Switzerland disguised as Abwehr agents in Operation U-7, an activity…
Bonhoeffer in 1939
Bonhoeffer on a retreat weekend with confirmands of Zion's Church congregation (1932)
Memorial of Bonhoeffer in front of St. Peter's Church, Hamburg
Bonhoeffer's study