I found this movie on Netflix and watched it last weekend. I wanted to see and hear Freya von Moltke, whom I wrote about here. She appears briefly in the linked trailer at the 1 min 14 sec mark. She is interviewed throughout the movie which tells the story of her husband, Helmuth James von Moltke, whom I wrote about here. The movie isn't about him per se but does an excellent job of fitting him into the larger picture of German anti-War resistance at the time.
If you're into that sort of history, give the movie a watch. The Restless Conscience (1992)
Interesting! I'm adding The Restless Conscience to my Netflix list.
ReplyDeleteMy maternal grandparents were both involved in Resistenza italiana. My grandfather was a member of Giustizia e Libertà and my grandmother was Staffetta, smuggling medical supplies to partisan brigades in northern Italy.
Socialism appeals to many people because everyone likes to stuff their hand down somebody else's pocket. National Socialism, after all, is socialism. Looting the Jews helped fund the "effort".
ReplyDeleteIt takes integrity to stand up for what you believe in when faced with institutional wrong being done on a grand scale. We see this from time to time in history, but not often enough.
I've never wanted to stuff my hand down someone else's pocket. What if there's a snotty tissue in there?
ReplyDeleteExactly right, LL. Thanks for connecting the dots and pointing that out.
ReplyDeleteWillard could obviously not stomach working the more savage methods in politics.
ReplyDeleteI read the book Letters to Freya.
ReplyDeleteAnother amazing book is one written by the wife of one of the lesser known conspirators, Peter Bielenberg. Christabel Bielenberg was an Englishwoman who married into that old aristocratic German family. The book tells of her life during the war in Germany and the arrest of her husband and what she and her children endured during his imprisonment. He was eventually released. Another account of the plot to kill Hitler by a wife, was the book The Power of Solitude, by Marion Yorck Von Wartenburg, her husband Peter was one of the conspirators that were sentenced to death and hung.
The courage it must have taken to attempt this was astounding.
I'm going to watch The Restless Conscience in a few minutes, glad I stopped by your blog and saw this.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, can't find it on Netflix, darn.
ReplyDeleteIt was there on Netflix for me, Allie. Are you streaming it or getting the red envelopes?
ReplyDeleteI put a photo of von Wartenburg back link
Streaming.
ReplyDeleteWell, I had the movie on my "saved" queue (where they put new releases and things not yet available). It was there for the longest time and then one day it just popped into my regular queue. Maybe it will be available for streaming soon or maybe they don't stream everything thing they send out.
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