LiMa – learning from history – the Kreisau circle

I saw him and my heart stopped. I had no idea what was happening. I had never experienced that before! And it was only when Daisy asked me: “What’s wrong with you?” that I said I didn’t know, but I told her what I found so puzzling, and then I found out – well, she said with a laugh: “Well, you’ve fallen in love with him! (Freya von Moltke)

“the boy” Helmuth James von Moltke with his mother Dorothy in  South Africa 1912

Helmuth James von Moltke and Freya von Moltke founded the Kreisau Circle. Moltke is regarded as “the best head of the German resistance against Hitler” (Die Zeit)

Left to right in the photo: Eugenie Schwarzwald, Helmuth James von Moltke and Freya von Moltke in Grundlsee

quoted and taken from: Jochen Köhler; Helmuth James von Moltke; the story of a childhood and youth, p. 287