Kreisau Circle resistance fighters

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The Kreisau Circle resistance fighters were a group of German dissidents during World War II who opposed the Nazi regime and secretly planned for a democratic, post-Hitler Germany.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf German jurist
German lawyer
German resistance group
activeInPeriod World War II NERFINISHED
aimedFor democratic post-Hitler Germany
country Germany NERFINISHED
historicalSignificance major civilian resistance group in Nazi Germany
ideology Christian socialism
democratic constitutionalism
liberal conservatism
keyFigure Helmuth James von Moltke NERFINISHED
linkedToEvent 20 July plot NERFINISHED
meetingPlace Kreisau estate in Silesia NERFINISHED
membersExecutedAt Plötzensee Prison NERFINISHED
membersTriedAt People's Court NERFINISHED
namedAfter Kreisau estate NERFINISHED
notableMember Adam von Trott zu Solz NERFINISHED
Alfred Delp NERFINISHED
Carlo Mierendorff NERFINISHED
Eugen Gerstenmaier NERFINISHED
Hans Lukaschek NERFINISHED
Helmuth James von Moltke NERFINISHED
Horst von Einsiedel NERFINISHED
Johannes Popitz NERFINISHED
Marion Yorck von Wartenburg NERFINISHED
Peter Yorck von Wartenburg NERFINISHED
Theodor Haubach NERFINISHED
Ulrich-Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld NERFINISHED
opposed Nazi regime
racial ideology of Nazism
totalitarianism
plannedFor federal structure for Germany
integration of Germany into Europe
postwar German political order
protection of human rights
rule of law
religiousInfluence Catholicism
Protestantism
repressedBy Gestapo NERFINISHED
roleIn founder of Kreisau Circle
leading member of Kreisau Circle
socialBackground aristocrats
civil servants
clergy
intellectuals
supported civil liberties
parliamentary democracy
social justice
usedMethod discussion circles
policy memoranda
secret meetings

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Caroline Becker commands Kreisau Circle resistance fighters
Hans von Dohnanyi memberOf Kreisau Circle resistance fighters
this entity surface form: Kreisau Circle