Ewald Heinrich von Kleist Schmenzin
EwaldHeinrich von KleistSchmenzin was a German publisher and convenor of the Munich Conference on Security Policy until 1998. A member of the von Kleist family and an officer in the Wehrmacht during World War II, his parents were active in the German resistance against Adolf Hitler. Kleist was designated to kill Hitler in a suicide attack and was the last surviving member of theJuly 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler.
Kleist was born on the familys manor Gut Schmenzin at Schmenzin near Kslin in Pomerania. The family were firm monarchists and his father Ewald von KleistSchmenzin had been an active opponent of Nazism well before the Second World War broke out. The young Ewald grew up in this milieu.
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