Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence between Freya and Helmuth von Moltke, September 1944-January 1945
Language: English
Published by New York Review Books, 2019
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- Title
- Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence between Freya and Helmuth von Moltke, September 1944-January 1945
- Author
- Helmuth James von Moltke, Freya von Moltke, (Editor) Helmuth Caspar von Moltke, (Editor) Dorothea von Moltke, (Editor) Johannes von Moltke, (Translator) Shelley Frisch, (Afterword) Rachel Seiffert
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1681373815
- ISBN 13
- 9781681373812
- Series
- Book 90 of 101: New York Review Books Classics
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- HISTORY-GERMANY
Tegel prison, Berlin, in the fall of 1944. Helmuth James von Moltke is awaiting trial for his leading role in the Kreisau Circle, one of the most important German resistance groups against the Nazis. By a near miracle, the prison chaplain at Tegel is Harald Poelchau, a friend and co-conspirator of Helmuth and his wife, Freya. From Helmuth's arrival at Tegel in late September 1944 until the day of his execution by the Nazis on January 23, 1945, Poelchau would carry Helmuth's and Freya's letters in and out of prison daily, risking his own life. Freya would safeguard these letters for the rest of her long life, much of it spent in Norwich, VT, from 1960 until her death in 2010.
Last Letters is a profoundly personal record of the couple's love, faith, and courage in the face of fascism. Written during the final months of World War II, the correspondence is at once a collection of love letters written in extremis and a historical document of the first order. Published to great acclaim in Germany, this volume now makes this deeply moving correspondence available for the first time in English.
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About the Author
Freya von Moltke (1911-2010) was part of the anti-Nazi opposition group, the Kreisau Circle, which she helped to form with her husband Helmuth. After World War II, Freya left Germany and settled in South Africa with her two sons. Unable to tolerate Apartheid, however, Freya returned to Berlin in 1956 and eventually settled in Norwich, Vermont, where she lived until her death.
Helmuth Caspar von Moltke is a retired lawyer and the son of Freya and Helmuth von Moltke. He lives in Vermont, Quebec, and Berlin.
Johannes von Molkte is a professor of German and Film, Media and Television at the University of Michigan and the grandson of Freya and Helmuth von Moltke.
Dorothea von Molke is co-owner of Labyrinth Books in Princeton, NJ, and the granddaughter of Freyaand Helmuth von Moltke.
Shelley Frisch is an award-winning translator of German literature. She lives in Princeton, NJ.
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