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A prominent member of the anti-Nazi resistance in Germany during World War II has died, aged 98, at her home in the US. A prominent member of Germany's anti-Nazi resistance during World War II has died, aged 98, at her home in the US.
Freya von Moltke belonged to a group of aristocrats, clerics and diplomats who supported the failed attempt to kill Hitler with a bomb in 1944.Freya von Moltke belonged to a group of aristocrats, clerics and diplomats who supported the failed attempt to kill Hitler with a bomb in 1944.
The group, known as the Kreisau Circle, was led by her husband, Helmuth, who was later executed for his activities.The group, known as the Kreisau Circle, was led by her husband, Helmuth, who was later executed for his activities.
After his arrest she fled to South Africa, and moved to the US in 1960. After the war she moved to South Africa, and later settled in the American state of Vermont in 1960.
The couple's estate in Silesia, located in current-day Poland, is now used as a centre for reconciliation between Germany and Poland.
Mrs von Moltke published several books about resistance to the Nazis during the war.
She told an interviewer in 2002: "To object and then to stand for what you believe in is one of the most important human activities to this day."She told an interviewer in 2002: "To object and then to stand for what you believe in is one of the most important human activities to this day."
Her son said his mother died after suffering from a viral infection. Resistance meetings
Mrs von Moltke was born Freya Deichmann in Cologne in 1911 and met her husband when she was 18.
Both she and Helmuth received law degrees and were married in 1931.
They were opponents of Hitler from the start of the Nazi regime and assisted Jews and other victims of Nazism through Helmut's international law practice in Berlin.
In 1942 and 1943, Mrs von Moltke hosted meetings at the family estate, Kreisau in Silesia, at which the resistance group discussed plans for the democratic Germany they hoped would follow the collapse of Nazism.
The Kreisau Circle supported the failed attempt on Hitler's life in July 1944.
Treason
Mrs von Moltke said later that she had fully supported her husband: "I never advised him to stop, but rather encouraged him, because I was convinced that that was the right way for him to fulfil his life."
Helmuth von Moltke was executed for treason in January 1945.
After the war, Mrs von Moltke and her two sons escaped to South Africa where she worked as a social worker.
She returned to Germany in 1956 where she began her work in publicising the Kreisau Circle.
She settled in Vermont in 1960, where she published several books about resistance to the Nazis during the war.
The former family estate in Silesia, located in current-day Poland, is now used as a centre for reconciliation between Germany and Poland and as a meeting place to promote European integration.