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A German of the Resistance
Letters of a founding member of the Kreisau Circle resistance group, whose members opposed the government of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany.
Helmuth von Moltke: A Leader Against Hitler
“Helmut James von Moltke [1907-1945] pursued two related goals during the Second World War: to help victims of National Socialism and to prepare for post-National Socialist Germany and Europe. He worked toward the first goal as a specialist in international law in the army’s intelligence department. There he struggled to uphold principles of international law against Nazi policies of racism and aggression. To achieve the second goal, Moltke initiated what later became known as the Kreisau Circle, a group that discussed and drafted plans to rebuild and reorganize Germany after Hitler’s defeat. By birth and character Moltke was particularly well suited for his self-appointed tasks. He su...
Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence between Helmuth James and Freya von Moltke, 1944-45
Available for the first time in English, a moving prison correspondence between a husband and wife who resisted the Nazis. Tegel prison, Berlin, in the fall of 1944. Helmuth James von Moltke is awaiting trial for his leading role in the Kreisau Circle, one of the most important German resistance groups against the Nazis. By a near miracle, the prison chaplain at Tegel is Harald Poelchau, a friend and coconspirator of Helmuth and his wife, Freya. From Helmuth’s arrival at Tegel in late September 1944 until the day of his execution by the Nazis on January 23, 1945, Poelchau would carry Helmuth’s and Freya’s letters in and out of prison daily, risking his own life. Freya would safeguard these letters for the rest of her long life. Last Letters is a profoundly personal record of the couple’s fortitude in the face of fascism.
Moltke on the Art of War
Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke is best known for his direction of the German/Prussian campaigns against Austria in 1866 and France in 1870-71, yet it was during his service as chief of the General Staff that he laid the foundation for the German way of war which would continue through 1945. Professor Daniel Hughes of the Air War College, in addition to editing and assisting with the translation of this selection of Moltke’s thoughts and theories on the art of war, has written an insightful commentary on “Moltke the Elder” that places him in the broader context of Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz’s sometimes abstract philosophical ideas. The book also contains an ...
Memories of Kreisau and the German Resistance
Memories of Kreisau and the German Resistance is the personal account of Freya von Moltke, a member of the Kreisau Circle, a German resistance group that participated in the attempt to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944. Freya?s husband, Helmuth von Moltke, was a cofounder of the circle and was executed after the failed assassination attempt. ø Freya recounts both personal details and sweeping historical events. She describes the resistance work carried out during the meetings of the circle as well as the last days of Kreisau, after many of the members of the resistance were executed for their roles in the failed assassination attempt. When the war ended in 1945, Freya was evacuated from Kreisau, and the von Moltke estate was given to Poland.
Helmuth James von Moltke
Günter Brakelmann schildert anschaulich den ungewöhnlichen Lebensweg Helmuth James von Moltkes, der als Gründer und Vordenker des Kreisauer Kreises eine der faszinierendsten Gestalten des deutschen Widerstands gegen Hitler ist. Das Buch lässt auf der Grundlage vieler neuer Quellen die charismatische Persönlichkeit Moltkes lebendig werden und macht sein Denken und Handeln, das sich allen weltanschaulichen Schubladen entzieht, im Kontext seiner Zeit verständlich. Mit dieser umfassenden Biographie liegt seit langem wieder ein Standardwerk zu Helmuth James von Moltke vor. "Eine eindrucksvolle und lebensnahe Biographie." Hans Mommsen, Süddeutsche Zeitung "Die Darstellung & dürfte schnell zum Standardwerk über Moltke werden."Stephan Malinowski, Deutschlandradio Kultur "Ein überzeugendes und gut lesbares Lebensbild Moltkes und des Kreisauer Kreises." Joachim Scholtyseck, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "Günter Brakelmanns bewegende Biographie & ist eine in vielerlei Hinsicht empfehlenswerte Lektüre." Renate Wiggershaus, Frankfurter Rundschau
Dorothy Thompson and German Writers in Defense of Democracy
This book focuses on Dorothy Thompson's opposition to Hitler and totalitarianism. It relates her prolific engagement on behalf of refugees, persecuted Jews, and exiled writers to friendships and ideas formed in Vienna and Berlin during the Weimar Republic.
