HIST 436 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Kreisau Circle, Lionel George Curtis, Morphine
20 Aug 2019
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Kreisau circle draft - uniting christianity: w/in it there were members of diff faith => not about forming a strict religious society, bring back humanity lost in germany. Moltke wrote a letter to lionel curtis saying he had a "religious awakening". There"s no other "proof": by then knew the reality of the "final solution, warned jews in denmark about the final solution. + hope for lasting intl peace: hoped to reach allied gvts to ensure they would support the kreisau circle"s aims after the war. (hoped they would take back the german gvt once the allies won the war) The letters moltke wrote from prison reflect the fight for his life. Moltke doesn"t say in any letters to his wife freya that he supports assassination (or that he opposes it either). He does manifest a lack of confidence in the generals. through the 30s and 40s they turned their back on democracy w/ a couple of exceptions: general.
