Memories of Kreisau and the German resistance (Erinnerungen an Kreisau) / Freya von Moltke ; translated and with an introduction by Julie Winter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moltke, Freya von.

Standardized Title:

Erinnerungen an Kreisau, 1930-1945. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Moltke, Freya von.

Moltke, Helmuth James, Graf von, 1907-1945.

Moltke, Helmuth James.

Kreisauer Kreis.

Physical Description:

xii, 87 pages : 1 illustration, 1 map ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, [2003]

Summary:

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. 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. Julie M. Winter has a PhD in German from Northwestern University. She is the translator of Marion Yorck von Wartenburg's The Power of Solitude: My Life in the German Resistance (Nebraska 2000).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page xii).

ISBN:

0803246692

OCLC:

50476640