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Freya von Moltke (March 29, 1911 - January 1, 2010) was a participant in the Kreisau Circle anti-Nazi resistance group, together with her husband Helmuth James Graf von Moltke. They were based in the Silesian town of Krzyzowa (German: Kreisau), which now belongs to Poland. Helmuth James Graf von Moltke was tried and executed by the Nazis for treason before World War II came to an end. Their son Helmuth Caspar von Moltke spoke with Deutsche Welle on the 100th anniversary of his mother's birth.

Deutsche Welle: From September 1944 until his execution on January 23, 1945, your father was detained in the Tegel jail in Berlin. During this time, your parents wrote letters to each other frequently. They were very young - 33 and 38 years old. What was the source of their inner strength in this extreme situation?

Helmuth Caspar von Moltke: They were under the conviction that the Third Reich must be opposed. In 1940, Adolf Hitler was celebrating his greatest trium

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Freya von Moltke

German writer and scholar

Freya von Moltke
Freya von Moltke in 2009
Born	Freya Deichmann (1911-03-29)29 March 1911 Cologne, Germany
Died	1 January 2010(2010-01-01) (aged 98) Norwich, Vermont, United States
Nationality	Federal Republic of Germany, United States of America
Education	Doctor of Law, Humboldt University of Berlin
Occupation(s)	Scholar, author, speaker
Known for	Chronicling her husband's role in the Kreisau Circle's non-violent opposition to Nazism during World War II.
Spouse	Helmuth James Ludwig Eugen Heinrich Graf von Moltke[1]
Children	Helmuth Caspar, Konrad
Parent	Ada & Carl Theodor Deichmann
Relatives	Hans Deichmann, Carl Deichmann

Freya von Moltke (née Deichmann; 29 March 1911 – 1 January 2010) was a German American lawyer and participant in the anti-Nazi opposition group, the Kreisau Circle, with her husband, Helmuth James von Moltke. During World War

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Primary Sources

(1) Dan van der Vat, The Guardian (7th January, 2010)

Countess Freya von Moltke, who has died at Norwich, Vermont, aged 98, fully supported the intellectual and upper-class anti-Nazi dissident movement founded by her late husband, Count Helmuth James von Moltke, and his friend Count Peter Yorck von Wartenburg in 1940. The group of aristocrats, academics, clerics, senior civil servants, union leaders and others became known after the war as the Kreisau circle, named after the Moltke estate in what is now Polish Silesia, where it met. The countess's role went beyond acting as hostess of the circle's meetings and, after migrating to the US in 1960, she began transcribing her husband's letters as part of her life's work to record the circle's role.

The Moltkes, leading members of the Prussian "Junker" class that dominated the second Reich, provided the German army with two field marshals and chiefs of general personal