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Freya von Moltke, prominent member of anti-Nazi resistance in Germany, dies in Vt. at 98NORWICH, Vt. (AP) — Freya von Moltke, a prominent member of the anti-Nazi resistance in World War II, has died at the age of 98, her son said.
Von Moltke, who was born in Germany but had lived in Vermont since 1960, died Friday after suffering a recent viral infection, her son Helmuth von Moltke told the Lebanon Valley News newspaper.
In her writings after the war, von Moltke described her life in the resistance with her husband, Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, who co-founded the anti-Nazi Kreisau Circle and was executed for his activities.
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The von Moltkes formed the center of a resistance group that became known as the Kreisau Circle, which included several dozen clergy members, economic experts and diplomats. Freya von Moltke hosted meetings in 1942 and '43 at the family estate at which the group discussed plans for the democratic Germany they hoped would follow the collapse of the Third Reich.
In 1943, the group established contact with Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, the leader of the German military resistance, and supported his failed attempt on July 20, 1944, to assassinate Hitler with a bomb. The story of that plot was brought to the big screen in 2008 in "Valkyrie," starring Tom Cruise as von Stauffenberg.
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