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"Näher am Tod kann man nicht sein. Und nicht näher an der Liebe." Thomas Karlauf, Die Welt

Berlin Tegel, im Herbst 1944: Der 37 Jahre alte Jurist und Widerstandskämpfer Helmuth James von Moltke wartet auf seinen Prozess vor dem Volksgerichtshof - und auf seine Hinrichtung. Während sowjetische Truppen auf seine Heimat Kreisau in Schlesien vorrücken und Weggefährten gehenkt werden, wechselt er täglich Briefe mit seiner Frau Freya, die vom Gefängnispfarrer Harald Poelchau unter Einsatz seines Lebens fast täglich an der Zensur vorbeigeschmuggelt werden. Es geht um...

Memories of Kreisau and the German Resistance is the personal account of Freya von Moltke, a member of the Kreisau Circle, a German resistance group that participated in the attempt to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944. Freya's husband, Helmuth von Moltke, was a cofounder of the circle and was executed after the failed assassination attempt. Freya recounts both personal details and sweeping historical events. She describes the resistance work carried out during the meetings of the circle as well as the last days of Kreisau, after many of the members of the resistance were executed for their...

""When Thomas Paine exclaimed: These are the times that try mens souls,"" Rosenstock-Huessy noted, Paine ""did not mean mens bodies or mens minds. And we know it."" In this book devoted to knowledge of that mysterious entity, ""soul,"" which neither philosophers nor psychologists will have anything to do with, Rosenstock-Huessy gives soul essential, practical meaning. Without recourse to anything mystical or transcendental or merely poetic, he assures us of the reality of the individual soul for healthy human beings, and connects it to his larger work on an entirely new grammar that elevates...