Posted on 01/04/2010 5:51:15 PM PST by PAR35
A prominent member of Germany's anti-Nazi resistance during World War II has died, aged 98, at her home in the US.
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She had belonged to a group of aristocrats, clerics and diplomats who backed a failed attempt to kill Hitler with a bomb in 1944.
The group, known as the Kreisau Circle, was led by her husband, Helmuth, who was later executed for his activities.
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Von Moltke was born Freya Deichmann in Cologne in 1911 and met her husband when she was 18.
Both she and Helmuth received law degrees and were married in 1931.
They were opponents of Hitler from the start of the Nazi regime and assisted Jews and other victims of Nazism through Helmut's international law practice in Berlin.
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That lady saw a dictatorship and tyranny from the get go.
Yes. True heroes.
I wonder what is her connection to Helmuth Von Moltke, the Chief of Staff of the German army at the outset of WWI.
Wife of the elder von Moltke’s grand-nephew.
btt,
A little history interest of mine as I had family who were in the anti-Nazi resistance in Germany (Weimar loyalists)
Oops again. Von Moltke the elder died in 1891. The one who participated in WWI was his nephew. I don’t know how his nephew and great-grandnephew (the late Freya’s husband) were related— cousins of some kind, I suppose.
I don’t begin to doubt the family history, but it should be pointed out that damn near every German developed that 20/20 hindsight thingie......and claimed the very ‘zact same thing.
This wasn’t a 20/20 hindsight thing, he was actually caught by the SS and killed in Dachau. I’ll Freepmail you some info.
I think Alexandra Moltke of 1960’s “Dark Shadows” and later Klaus von Bulow fame is related to this family.
btt
RIP.
She and the other conspirators were heroes. But they’d succeeded, Germany would never have dealt with its guilt vis-a-vis the Third Reich. It would still have been possible to believe in “good” Germans.
bump.....
in a related note, I’d hoped that someday somebody like Mel Gibson
would do a remake of “The Counterfeit Traitor”.
Now I just hope some decently talented actor will be drafted for
the job before I die.
One reason the opposition failed over and over is because our OSS and the FDR administration was packed with Soviet operatives. They didn’t want an overthrow of Hitler, they feared a peace with the west if that occurred. They wanted the war to continue to the bitter end and the Red Army to roll to the English channel.
One reason the opposition failed over and over is because our OSS and the FDR administration was packed with Soviet operatives. They didn’t want an overthrow of Hitler, they feared a peace with the west if that occurred. They wanted the war to continue to the bitter end and the Red Army to roll to the English channel.
Even the German Govt. had lots of Soviet operatives.
The Soviets recruited a lot more than our side did during the war, mostly out of proximity. The spies for the Soviets weren't exactly Communists either. One of the resistance groups "Realm Banner Black-Red-Golden" were Weimar loyalists and SPD members (basically, Capitalists).
Clarification on 18- the SPD are socialist now, they weren’t from 1925 until 1959 (sans WW2 years of course). They moved back leftward in 59 under Schumacher.
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