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Security Service file on Count Helmuth James Von MOLTKE: German. A leading figure...
Catalogue reference: KV 6/65
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This record is about the Security Service file on Count Helmuth James Von MOLTKE: German. A leading figure... dating from 1939 Jan 01-1944 Dec 31 in the series The Security Service: List (L Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- KV 6/65
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1939 Jan 01-1944 Dec 31
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Description (What the record is about)
- Security Service file on Count Helmuth James Von MOLTKE: German. A leading figure in the Kreisau Circle opposed to Hitler, Von MOLTKE was from an aristocratic Prussian military family but had a Scottish mother and was a member of the English Bar. He was legal advisor to the OKW and to the Abwehr but was also in correspondence during WW2 with three British friends, including the Oxford academics Lionel Curtis and Michael Balfour, correspondence which was monitored by the Security Service and is included in the file. He was executed by the Gestapo in 1945 after an allegation that he warned a Major KIEP that the latter was under suspicion.L 260-241 VOL 1
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Serial 55b: summary of contacts with three British friends
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- L 260-241 VOL 1
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Retained Until 2007
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Fascism
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11340642/
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KV 6
The Security Service: List (L Series) Files
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