Nazi resistance fighter Moltke dead at 98: report

NEW YORK (AFP) –Freya von Moltke, a prominent member of the German resistance during World War IWe alongside her husband, has died at the age of 98 in the United States, The Valleyews reported.A one-sentence announcement in the newspaper said she died late on Friday but did not give details. German-born Moltke was a resident of the Vermont town oforwich.Her husband, Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, was a German jurist and a founding member of a resistance group against Adolf Hitler.In January 1944 he was arrested by the Gestapo, tried for treason, sentenced to death and executed in Berlin in late January 1945.After the war, Moltke became a symbol of moral opposition to theazi regime and was referred by German chancellor Angela Merkel as a symbol of "European courage".