Information materials

Here is a selection of links and publications about the Kreisau Circle, Helmuth James and Freya von Moltke and the New Kreisau.

In order to update this list please let us know about more links and publications. Thank you!

Internet

Books

Movies

Internet

Answers.com gives you very detailed information with a lot of possibilities to research on further topics connected to the life of Helmuth James von Moltke and Kreisau

The Memorial Sight Plötzensee offers a list of publications about the German Resistance against the National-Socialists.

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)

The Kreisau Project from Blue Pumpkin Productions, general information about Kreisau from Marc P. Smith, author of the theaterplay "A journey to Kreisau"

www.fembio.org, website with biographies of famous women incl. about Freya von Moltke

openmuseum.com introduces Freya von Moltke as one of the faces of Norwich, VT

The German Resistance Memorial Center with biographies of many members of the resistance, among them Helmuth James von Moltke

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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

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Movies

"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 you can find under www.moltke-film.de 


"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.


"The restless conscience", an Academy Award nominated documentary about German Resistance with lots of material about members of the Kreisau Circle.

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