A prominent member of a resistance during the Second World War, Freya von Moltke, has died at the age of 98.
She was a lawyer and a member of a resistance group against Adolf Hitler set up by her husband. Meetings were organised at the couple's country estate in Kreisau in Poland.
In the Kreisau circle, dozens of politicians, civil servants, economists and intellectuals discussed what would happen to Germany after the fall of the Nazis.
The group also had contact with a militant resistance group which tried to kill Hitler.
Freya von Moltke’s husband was arrested and executed in 1944 for treason.
She died on New Year’s Day in the United States where she had been living for 50 years.
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