Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945
by Marie Vassiltchikov
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Author: Marie VassiltchikovEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1988-06-12
ISBN: 0394757777
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: A Different Perspective on Wartime Germany
Summary: 5 Stars
The author of these diaries was 23 when the war began in 1939, and canot be blamed for the rise of Nazism. She knew many German aristocrats, including ones who suffered the extreme penalty for opposing Hitler. I found fascinating the account of how life went on in aristocratic circles in Germany while bombs dropped and Hitler ran his terroristic regime. This is another view entirely from Victor Klemperer's monumental volumes entitled I Will Bear Witness, which I read with sheerest fascination on June 11, 1999, and April 7, 2000, since Missy, the author, almost seemed to bear a charmed life. But like Klemperer's diary, time seemed to move so slow as one reads, knowing that not till May 8, 1945 would the ordeal end--and not even then because life in Germany postwar was no bed of roses for some time. If one considers the author as the young woman she was, not one in a position to answer for the rise of Hitler or to impede his ruinous course, the diary is a moving tribute to the human spirit.
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