Ewald von Kleist Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
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 military family. His father, lawyer and landowner Count Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin (1890-1945) - who was a cousin of Field Marshal Paul von Kleist (1881...
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."
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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".)
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The producers of Valkyrie (2008), starring Tom Cruise, asked Kleist to serve as a consultant on the film. Kleist turned them down and is not mentioned in the film by name. See article in The Atlantic Times newspaper under Miscellaneous Links.
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
It Happened on July 20th
1955
historical advisor - as Ewald Heinrich von Kleist
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Mission to Murder Hitler
2009
TV Movie documentary
Himself - 20th July Conspirator
Offiziere gegen Hitler
2004
TV Series documentary
Himself
Hitler: A Profile
1995
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
The Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945
1992
Documentary
Himself (as Ewald Heinrich von Kleist)
The World at War
1973
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - Army Officer
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Bis fünf nach zwölf - Adolf Hitler und das 3. Reich
1953
Documentary
Himself
Known for movies
The World at War (1973) as Himself - Army Officer
Mission to Murder Hitler (2009) as Himself - 20th July Conspirator
The Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945 (1992) as Himself
$12 Million
