The Oster Conspiracy of 1938; The Unknown Story of the Military Plot to Kill Hitler and Avert World War II

New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004. First edition. First Edition [stated]. First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xxii, 232, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Price clipped. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Terry Parssinen is professor of history at the University of Tampa and a specialist in modern European history. The Oster Conspiracy of 1938 was a proposed plan to overthrow German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime if Germany went to war with Czechoslovakia over the Sudetenland. It was led by General Hans Oster, deputy head of the Abwehr (Germany's counter-espionage agency) and prominent figures within the German military who opposed the regime for its behavior that was threatening to bring Germany into a war that they believed it was not ready to fight. They planned to overthrow Hitler and the Nazi regime through a planned storming of the Reich Chancellery by forces loyal to the plot to take control of the government, who would either arrest or assassinate Hitler, and most of the members involved agreed that they would support the restoration of the Hohenzollern monarchy of Kaiser Wilhelm II and that had been residing in exile in the Netherlands since 1918.