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| Freya von Moltke, Resistance Fighter |
| 2010-01-04 |
| Freya von Moltke, a prominent member of the German resistance during World War II alongside her husband, has died at the age of 98 in the United States, The Valley News reported. A one-sentence announcement in the newspaper said she died late on Friday but did not give details. German-born Moltke was a resident of the Vermont town of Norwich. Her husband, Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, was a German jurist and a founding member of a resistance group against Adolf Hitler. In January 1944 he was arrested by the Gestapo, tried for treason, sentenced to death and executed in Berlin in late January 1945. After the war, Moltke became a symbol of moral opposition to the Nazi regime and was referred by German chancellor Angela Merkel as a symbol of "European courage". For further information, see Generalfeldmarschall Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, and Chief of the German General Staff Helmuth von Moltke the Younger. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #1 Once upon a time we lived in a lovely little house on Moltkestrasse in the prettiest corner of Bad Soden, above Frankfurt. Named after the Elder, I believe, and all of three houses long, across from one park and around the corner from the woods that lay between our village and the next one up the hill. Not at all the kind of street one would expect to be named after such a martial personage. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-01-04 21:29 |