Here is a selection of links and publications about the Kreisau Circle, Helmuth James and Freya von Moltke and the New Kreisau.
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Internet
Institutes and Organizations concerning Kreisau and German-Polish Relations
Krzyzowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe (Fundacja Krzyżowa dla Porozumienie Europejskiego).
Kreisau-Initiative Berlin e.V. is a recognized non-profit organization with the aim of promoting the Kreisau project ideally and materially. The Initiative is represented on the council and boards of the Kreisau Foundation for European Understanding and cooperates closely on concepts for Kreisau projects.
The Kreisau Project from Blue Pumpkin Productions, general information about Kreisau from Marc P. Smith, author of the theatreplay "A Journey to Kreisau"
Information about Helmuth James and Freya von Moltke
Answers.com gives very detailed information with a lot of possibilities to search on further topics connected to the life of Helmuth James von Moltke and Kreisau.
Count Helmuth James von Moltke’s Memo to Hans Wilbrandt and Alexander Rüstow on Conditions in Germany and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (July 9, 1943).
www.fembio.org, website with biographies of famous women incl. Freya von Moltke
openmuseum.com introduces Freya von Moltke as one of the faces of Norwich, VT.
Information about German History and Resistance
The Memorial Site Plötzensee offers a list of publications about the German Resistance against National Socialism.
The German Resistance Memorial Center with biographies of many members of the resistance, among them Helmuth James von Moltke.
Memorial Foundation for July 20, 1944. Its most important purpose was to support the members of the resistance and their families, particularly the relatives of those murdered in connection with July 20,1944.
German Historical Museum in Berlin gives an overview about German history.
Books
"Memories of Kreisau and the German Resistance"
by Freya von Moltke
University of Nebraska Press, 2003
"Letters to Freya: 1939-1945"
by Helmuth James von Moltke
Vintage, 1995
Review: No, mein Führer, The New York Times
"German resistance to Hitler: Count von Moltke and the Kreisau Circle"
by Ger van Roon
Van Nostrand Reinhold Co, 1971
Movies
»Im Gespräch mit Freya von Moltke« (»An Interview with Freya von Moltke«)
DVD, 48 min, language: German, subtitles: Polish, English
Hellmut Sitó Schlingensiepen and christian.bimm.coers
forwertz GbR, Düsseldorf/Berlin, 2010
On the 1st of January 2010, Freya von Moltke past away in her home in Vermont (USA). Two years before, in May 2008, the filmcrew of forwertz had visited her to personally deliver a movie about her husband Helmuth James von Moltke, named »...weil wir zusammen gedacht haben.« (»because we thought together«). After watching the movie, they hold a conversation in front of a camera in which Freya von Moltke speaks about her origin, the resistance against National Socialism and her life after the Second World War.
This Interview draws a very personal portrait of a wonderful woman and is at the same time a passionate pleading for political commitment.
To order at: sito@forwertz.com
»...weil wir zusammen gedacht haben« (»because we thought together«)
DVD, 22 min, languages: German, Polish, English
Hellmut Sitó Schlingensiepen and christian.bimm.coers
forwertz GbR, Düsseldorf/Berlin, 2007
"Count Helmuth von Moltke was one of the great heroes of the German resistance against Nazism. [...] I strongly commend this short but deeply moving documentary account of his life, faith and courageous action."
Desmond Tutu, Emeritus Archbishop of Cape Town
To order at "Geschichte: begreifen" dvd(at)moltke-film(dot)de
Additional information and education material can be found under www.moltke-film.de
»Freya von Moltke zu Besuch in Kreisau« (»Freya von Moltke on visit in Kreisau«)
DVD, 45 min, German/Polish with English subtitles
Alexander Weisswange-Lehmann, 2006
A documentary about the New Kreisau and Freya von Moltkes first visit in summer 2004 after her escape from Kreisau.
This movie was produced for the Freya von Moltke Foundation, please contact us to purchase this movie.
an Academy Award nominated documentary about German Resistance with lots of material about members of the Kreisau Circle.