Chris Boonzaier Posted March 6, 2013 Share 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spasm Posted March 6, 2013 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurence Strong Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Wow, what a piece of histroy. Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted March 16, 2013 Author Share Posted March 16, 2013 Here is his "collector card" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul R Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Great Stuff Chris. The collar tabs are Bundeswehr though, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulsterman Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Wow! I note that Von Kleist died this week too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted March 25, 2013 Author Share Posted March 25, 2013 Great Stuff Chris. The collar tabs are Bundeswehr though, right? Hi, I think sleeve thingies for Reichswehr? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColinRF Posted March 25, 2013 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted July 20, 2013 Author Share Posted July 20, 2013 69 years ago today the attempt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted July 31, 2013 Author Share Posted July 31, 2013 "a man such as God meant men to be, lucid and serene in mind, imperturbable in danger." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prussian Posted August 1, 2013 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted August 1, 2013 Author Share 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. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dond Posted August 1, 2013 Share 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..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul R Posted August 4, 2013 Share Posted August 4, 2013 It all belongs together. I am glad that you are the one who has the set now, Chris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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