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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
KV 6/65
Date
1939 Jan 01-1944 Dec 31
Description
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
Note
Serial 55b: summary of contacts with three British friends
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
L 260-241 VOL 1
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Access conditions
Retained Until 2007
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Subjects
Topics
Fascism
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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