Ewald von Kleist(1922-2013)

The producers of Valkiria (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.

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".)