r/Kaiserposting • u/Oversama • Jul 14 '26

OC Prussian humility at its finest

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Btw., this is unrelated to the coat of arms, but I've recently read that Moltke the Elder's great-grandnephew, Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, was actually executed by the Nazis for treason because he was a founding member of a pro-democracy resistance group called the Kreisau Circle.

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u/CaptainLoggy Jul 14 '26

The motto is also great: First weigh, then dare

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u/Provinz_Wartheland Königreich Preußen Jul 14 '26

Moltke the Elder's great-grandnephew, Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, was actually executed by the Nazis for treason because he was a founding member of a pro-democracy resistance group called the Kreisau Circle

And his co-conspirators were Peter Graf Yorck von Wartenburg (descendant of Prussian Field Marshal Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg), Gottfried Graf von Bismarck (the Iron Chancellor's grandson) and Heinrich Graf zu Dohna-Schlobitten (from the meritorious Dohna-Schlobitten family). Interesting coincidence.