Ewald von Kleist
Birthday: 10 July 1922, Schmenzin, Pomerania, Germany [now Smecino, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]
Birth Name: Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin
Ewald Heinrich von Kleist (1922-2013), anti-Nazi and post-war founder of the publishing company Ewald-von-Kleist-Verlag in Berlin, was a scion of an aristocratic Prussian land-owning, literary and mil ...Show More
Von Kleist remembered explaining the suicide plot [in which he was to have worn an explosive vest to Show more
Von Kleist remembered explaining the suicide plot [in which he was to have worn an explosive vest to kill Hitler] to his father, who paused only briefly before telling his 22-year-old son: "Yes, you have to do this.""Fathers love their sons and mine certainly did, and I had been quite sure he would say no," Von Kleist recalled. "But, as always, I had underestimated him." Hide
Asked in an interview for The World At War, whether Germans should have resisted growing Nazi tyrann Show more
Asked in an interview for The World At War, whether Germans should have resisted growing Nazi tyranny in the 1930s: Well, I think it is difficult, first of all, to make up your mind that you should do something against a government. This is very rare, first of all. Secondly, if it is extremely dangerous, as it is in a dictatorship, it's even more complicated, because everybody likes his own life. (The World At War, programme 1, "A New Germany 1933-1939".) Hide
Ewald von Kleist's FILMOGRAPHY
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