LC control no. | n 81003931 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Moltke, Helmuth James, Graf von, 1907-1945 |
Variant(s) | Moltke, Helmuth James Wilhelm Ludwig Eugen Heinrich, Graf von, 1907-1945 |
Birth date | 1907-03-11 |
Death date | 1945-01-23 |
Place of birth | Germany |
Field of activity | Jurisprudence Anti-Nazi movement |
Affiliation | Kreisauer Kreis |
Profession or occupation | Lawyers |
Found in | A 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) |