Anti-Nazi resistance heroine von Moltke dies aged 98

FREYA VON MOLTKE, a prominent member of Germany’s anti-Nazi resistance in the Second World War, has died at the age of 98.

Helmuth von Moltke, her son, said his mother died on Friday after suffering a viral infection last week. She had lived in the US state of Vermont since 1960.

In her writings after the war, von Moltke described her life in the resistance with her husband, Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, who co-founded the anti-Nazi Kreisau Circle and was executed for his activities.