World War II and After
Late in the war as Soviet forces approached Germany's border the younger Hindenburg supervised the dismantling of the Tannenberg Memorial honoring his father's 1914 victory over the Russians at Tannenberg. He also had his parents' remains moved west.
In the Nuremberg trials, Oskar von Hindenburg was a witness against Franz von Papen. In 1956, he was won a lawsuit against South German Publishers, which in 1954 posthumously published the book by Baron Erwein von Aretin, Crown and Chains. Memories of a Bavarian Nobleman, and which could not prove allegations that Hindenburg had surreptitiously obtained in 1930 illegal funding from Osthilfe, a Weimar Republic programme for developing the agrarian economy in eastern Germany.
Oskar von Hindenburg died in Bad Harzburg, West Germany, on 12 February 1960.
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