Dorothy Von Moltke's Letters Witness Germany's Descent Into Chaos
Daughter of the Chief Justice of South Africa and married into the illustrious family of Helmuth von Moltke, Germany's greatest military hero, Dorothy von Moltke penned frequent letters to her parents that capture the life of the elite on a large estate in Silesia, formerly part of Germany and now part of Poland. The letters poignantly describe living through World War I, the devastating inflation of the Weimar Period, and the rise of Nazism as armed militias clashed in the...
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