Buy a discounted Paperback of The Berlin Diaries 1940-45 online from Australias leading. The author died in England in 1978 her brother, a London businessman, prepared this diary for publication. Booktopia has The Berlin Diaries 1940-45 by Marie Vassiltchikov. Vassiltchikov, Marie (Edited and with a Foreword by George Vassiltchikov and with an Introduction by Christabel Bielenberg. Her clear-eyed account of life in wartime Germany is gripping. The Berlin diaries 1940 - 1945 of Marie 'Missie' Vassiltchikov.
Transferred to Vienna as a Luftwaffe nurse, Vassiltchikov made a daring escape from the advancing Red Army. The Berlin Diaries, 1940-45 by Vassiltchikov, Marie Missie and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Her friends included active anti-Nazis as well as SS officers and members of Germany's social elite, many of whom, according to the author, loathed Hitler but were paralyzed by their obedience to authority and fear of reprisals. The reader experiences the Allied saturation bombing of Berlin from a German point of view (it only steeled the nation's morale). Reviewed by Carin Paris No doubt the horrors that went on in Germany during. Calmly and unflinchingly, she records the moral, physical and political atrocities that unfolded around her.
Her secret wartime diary, written in fluent English, is a remarkable document alive with history, passion and truth. Taking a job with the German Foreign Ministry, this emigree worked closely with underground resisters who launched an abortive plot to kill Hitler. Born of aristocratic Russian parents, Vassiltchikov was 24 when, her family scattered, she fled, penniless, from Lithuania to Berlin.
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