Chris Boonzaier Posted March 6, 2013 Posted March 6, 2013 You can maybe win a knights cross for a Tank action, and be a brave man... but you can also be executed for treason, and be a Hero... It may be a touchy point for some, But Hans Oster was working from the mid 30s to put a stop to Hitler, and avoid germany rushing into a war that almost destroyed it.... Hard to say he was not a hero of sorts.... He was hanged in April 1945 at Flossenburg along with his friend Admiral Canaris... Here are his Reichswehr Shoulderboards...
Spasm Posted March 6, 2013 Posted March 6, 2013 Hanged two weeks before the Americans liberated the camp he was in. A hero, I think, in saving so many lives. What great things to look after.
Paul R Posted March 25, 2013 Posted March 25, 2013 Great Stuff Chris. The collar tabs are Bundeswehr though, right?
Ulsterman Posted March 25, 2013 Posted March 25, 2013 Wow! I note that Von Kleist died this week too.
Chris Boonzaier Posted March 25, 2013 Author Posted March 25, 2013 Great Stuff Chris. The collar tabs are Bundeswehr though, right? Hi, I think sleeve thingies for Reichswehr?
ColinRF Posted March 25, 2013 Posted March 25, 2013 Congrats Chris. As you know I missed the documents in the same sale you alerted me to which went to the Dresden Military Museum. Thanks anyway. I just picked up asigned a first edition "To the Bitter End" by Hans Bernd Gisevius for $80 so I will call that my consolation prize. I will update my July 20 string when it arrives. I have a great interest in the Canaris group so thanks for posting these. Oster is indeed a controversial figure, betraying his country in an act of conscience in favour of a wider duty to western civilization. In my books a hero but if his act of defiance had cost tens of thouands of German casualties, I would sympatise with those who thought differently. Colin
Chris Boonzaier Posted July 31, 2013 Author Posted July 31, 2013 "a man such as God meant men to be, lucid and serene in mind, imperturbable in danger."
The Prussian Posted August 1, 2013 Posted August 1, 2013 (edited) Great Stuff Chris. The collar tabs are Bundeswehr though, right? Right. Reichswehr Litzen for officers had a grey-green base colour. These collar-tabs are Bundeswehr. It is the so-called "geblätterte Doppellitze" (I don´t know an english word for "geblättert") on crimson base colour for General-staff-officers (Generalstabsoffiziere). In the Bundeswehr first they had a grey base-colour, later this crimson one. Edited August 1, 2013 by The Prussian
Chris Boonzaier Posted August 1, 2013 Author Posted August 1, 2013 Hi, the Boards came out of the mixed family group of his son Achim Oster, a WW2 officer and NATO General. Some of the Achim Oster stuff and Hans Oster stuff was mixed so these tabs were sold with his fathers stuff so i assumed they were sleeve thingies, i will keeping them together or they would be lost forever. :-)
dond Posted August 1, 2013 Posted August 1, 2013 A true collector. Its all in the details of how you treat the stuff. A lesser man might have chunked the non-TR stuff.....
Paul R Posted August 4, 2013 Posted August 4, 2013 It all belongs together. I am glad that you are the one who has the set now, Chris.
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