**A prominent member of the anti-Nazi resistance in Germany during World War II has died, aged 98, at her home in the US.**Freya von Moltke belonged to a group of aristocrats, clerics and diplomats who supported the failed attempt to kill Hitler with a bomb in 1944.
The group, known as the Kreisau Circle, was led by her husband, Helmuth, who was later executed for his activities.
After his arrest she fled to South Africa, and moved to the US in 1960.
The couple’s estate in Silesia, located in current-day Poland, is now used as a centre for reconciliation between Germany and Poland.
Mrs von Moltke published several books about resistance to the Nazis during the war.
She told an interviewer in 2002: “To object and then to stand for what you believe in is one of the most important human activities to this day.”
Her son said his mother died after suffering from a viral infection.