Marie 'Missie' Vassiltchikov as a White Russian emigree caught with her family in Hitler's Germany at the outbreak of the war. She was part of the cosmopolitan set who managed to maintain a trance-like normality until as late as 1941. Before long, however, Missie became sickened by the nature of Nazi-rule.
Marie 'Missie' Vassiltchikov as a White Russian emigree caught with her family in Hitler's Germany at the outbreak of the war. She was part of the cosmopolitan set who managed to maintain a trance-like normality until as late as 1941. Before long, however, Missie became sickened by the nature of Nazi-rule.
Through Adam Von Trott, for whom she worked in the Information Department of the Foreign Ministry, she became involved in the Resistance and the diaries vividly describe her part in the drama of July 1944 and its appalling aftermath.
The secret diaries of a twenty-three-year-old White Russian princess who worked in the German Foreign Office from 1940 to 1944 and then as a nurse, these pages give us a unique picture of wartime life in that sector of German society from which the 20th of July Plot -- the conspiracy to kill Hitler -- was born.Includes index.
Antrojo pasaulinio karo pradžioje iš Lietuvos į hitlierinę Vokietiją atvykusios kunigaikštytės Marijos Vasilčikovos slapčia rašyti dienoraščiai atkuria unikalų gyvenimą tuose aristokratijos sluoksniuose, kuriuose gimė 1944 metų liepos 20-osios sąmokslas prieš Hitlerį. Meistriška istorijos, memuarų ir autobiografijos pynė, pilna spalvingų charakterių, Trečiojo reicho kasdienybės smulkmenų ir kone siurrealistinių karo meto vaizdų bei situacijų, ataustų vienu kitu prisiminimu ir iš gyvenimo Lietuvoje.
