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Moltke, Helmuth James, Graf von, 1907-1945

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Personal name headingMoltke, Helmuth James, Graf von, 1907-1945
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Variant(s)Moltke, Helmuth James Wilhelm Ludwig Eugen Heinrich, Graf von, 1907-1945
Birth date1907-03-11
Death date1945-01-23
Place of birthGermany
Field of activityJurisprudence Anti-Nazi movement
AffiliationKreisauer Kreis
Profession or occupationLawyers
Found inA German of the resistance, 1946: title page (Count Helmuth James von Moltke)
Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, 1986
Wikipedia, October 30, 2015 (Helmuth James Graf von Moltke (11 March 1907 - 23 January 1945) was a German jurist who, as a draftee in the German Abwehr, acted to subvert German human-rights abuses of people in territories occupied by Germany during World War II and subsequently became a founding member of the Kreisau Circle resistance group, whose members opposed the government of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany. The Nazi government executed von Moltke for treason, he having discussed with the Kreisau Circle group the prospects for a Germany based on moral and democratic principles that could develop after Hitler)