{"id":3202,"date":"2020-04-09T08:08:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T08:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/09\/helmuth-james-von-moltke\/"},"modified":"2020-04-09T08:08:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T08:08:14","slug":"helmuth-james-von-moltke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/09\/helmuth-james-von-moltke\/","title":{"rendered":"Helmuth James Graf von Moltke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c025d9b44beb4200c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Von Moltke\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c025d9b44beb4200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c025d9b44beb4200c-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Von Moltke\" \/><\/a>I&#0160; sometimes express skepticism about the value of the study of history. If history has lessons, they don&#39;t seem applicable to the present in any useful way. But there is no denying that history is a rich source of exemplary lives. These exemplary lives show what is humanly possible and furnish existential ideals. Helmuth James von Moltke was a key figure in the German resistance to Hitler. The Nazis executed him in 1945.&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1990\/07\/01\/books\/no-mein-fuhrer.html?pagewanted=all&amp;src=pm\" target=\"_self\">Here<\/a>&#0160;is his story.&#0160;&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/10\/world\/europe\/10moltke.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_self\">Here<\/a>&#0160;is an obituary of his wife, Freya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0240a51eca7f200b-pi\"><\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#0160; sometimes express skepticism about the value of the study of history. If history has lessons, they don&#39;t seem applicable to the present in any useful way. But there is no denying that history is a rich source of exemplary lives. These exemplary lives show what is humanly possible and furnish existential ideals. Helmuth James &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/09\/helmuth-james-von-moltke\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Helmuth James Graf von Moltke&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","category-tributes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}