Freya von moltke biography of rory

Fleeing Kreisau [ edit ]. Transitions, [ edit ]. Recognition and legacy [ edit ]. References [ edit ]. It is translated as Count. Before the August abolition of nobility as a legal class, titles preceded the full name when given Graf Helmuth James von Moltke. Sincethese titles, along with any nobiliary prefix vonzuetc. Titles and all dependent parts of surnames are ignored in alphabetical sorting.

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Date of Creation Spring Comments Senior History Thesis. Copyright Note This is the author's version of the work. Recommended Citation Hayes, Sarah E. Enter search terms:. Who was Freya von Moltke? We need you! Help us build the largest biographies collection on the web! Add a New Bio. Powered by CITE. It is often the case that conspirators have a great need to be visionaries.

It was a perilous act of resistance. As many as half of the dissidents were later executed, some for actively plotting to kill Hitler, others for thinking the unthinkable: they had marshaled logical, moral and religious arguments to question the legitimacy of the Third Reich. Their high-minded planning for a future without Nazis angered a regime that expected to endure 1, years They initially rejected violence, if only for fear of making Hitler a martyr.

But as the killing went on, support for assassinating him grew. Indeed, military conspirators were pushing ahead. At p. Hitler suffered only minor wounds. Moltke said she believed that her husband would have backed that assassination attempt — had he not already been in jail for warning a friend, Dr. Otto Kiep, who was plotting violence against Hitler, that Dr.

Kiep risked imminent arrest. Count Moltke was never released. In fact, there is strong evidence that Count Moltke was in contact with the July 20 conspirators. With her husband Helmuth she was involved in the anti-Nazi Kreisau Circle. In she began studying law at the University of Bonn and attended seminars at the University of Breslau, where she worked as a researcher for her future husband.

Helmuth and Freya lived, for financial reasons, in a modest cottage on the Kreisau estate in Silesia, but later moved to Berlin, where Helmuth completed his legal studies. Helmuth was greatly influenced by his parents' liberal values. Inand again inFreya and Helmuth went to South Africa. The couple also visited England many times between and and, inHelmuth qualified for the English bar.

They had seriously considered emigrating from Germany but were caught by the outbreak of war in September In Freya gave birth to their first son, Helmuth Caspar. Thereafter, she lived at Kreisau all year round. Her husband inherited the Kreisau estate in In she gave birth to their second son, Konrad, at Kreisau. Helmuth was called up and assigned as adviser on International Law to the foreign department of military intelligence Abwehr.

Freya von moltke biography of rory

Without being fully aware of it, he had landed in one of the centres of the military conspiracy against Hitler. In his travels through German-occupied countries, Helmuth was confronted with many human rights abuses, which he sought to mitigate by arguing that German bodies observe the Geneva Convention. Back in Kreisau in andHelmuth, supported by Freya, held three discussions about the situation in Germany and the country's future after Hitler.

Smaller meetings were held in Berlin. They brought officers, trade unionists and churchmen together. Between the first and the third meetings the German Sixth Army looked like capturing Stalingrad. By the time of the third it had surrendered to the Soviets and the Germans had been thrown out of North Africa by the Western allies. In January Helmuth was arrested by the Gestapo, accused of warning another of impending arrest.

He was later tried for treason in the notorious People's Court, sentenced to death and hanged in Berlin 23 January Canaris was executed on 9 April for his connections with the 20 July plot. Her husband's fate put Freya in danger and she spent months in flight from the Gestapo and the advancing Russians.