Last letters : the prison correspondence, September 1944-January 1945
Available for the first time in English, a moving prison correspondence between a husband and wife who resisted the Nazis. Tegel Prison, Berlin, in the fall of 1944. In a cell and shackled for most of the day, Helmuth James von Moltke is awaiting trial for his leading role in the Kreisau Circle, one of the most important German resistance groups against the Nazis. By a near miracle, the prison chaplain at Tegel is Harald Poelchau, a friend and co...