He was a trained lawyer and later joined German army as
reserves. He became adjutant to colonel Henning VON Tresckow. He joined Nazi
resistance group and became a secret liason between Tresckow in Russia and
senior officers like oster, Ludwig becke for
various plans for coup d'état and assassination of hitler.He smuggled a time
bomb in to the plane in which Hitler was travelling to a Army group command
headquarters. however the bomb did not explode as the timing fuse did not
function due to the cold temperature in the planes storage compartment. He
extricated the bomb TheNext day and no one suspected any thing. After the
failure of plot 20 July 1944 he was arrested by Gestapo and put in gestapo
prison where he was tortured brutally but he did not yield and reveal names of his
associates. On Feb 3 , 1945 he was taken to people's court to be tried by
President of tribunal Friesler. Before his trial began, American plane piloted
by Lt colRobert Rosenthal dropped bombs direct over the court hall and Friesler
instantly died crushed under a collapsed beam. He was still holding the file of
Schlabendorf. He was shifted to various camps later and along with 140 Dachau
prisoners and was sent to Tyrol that was under SS.The inmates gave information
to German army about the senior personnel in the camp who were likely to be
executed. Wechard von alvonsleben who was commanding a unit moved in quickly
and the SS guards vanished after seeing the strong German army unit entering
the camp. The prisoners were freed and later they were liberated by U.S. Army
personnel. Fabian was released by allies and he served as the judge in the
highest court of West Germnay for long and passed away in 1980
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