Having survived the Nazis, Missie ends the diaries as she flees from Vienna, where she has been working as a nurse, before the advancing Red Army. BERLIN DIARIES, 1940-1945 by Marie Vassiltchikov (Vintage Books: 8.95) By ELENA BRUNET J12 AM PT Berlin Diaries is the record of Marie (Missy) Vassiltchikov.
Living among the ruins of Berlin during Allied bombing raids, she grows us to be strong-minded, committed and courageous woman as she daily displays uncommon bravery in the face of the Gestapo and the detestable Dr Six of the SS. 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.
She was a Bright Young Thing, part of the cosmopolitan set who managed to maintain a trance-like normality until as late as 1941 - picnics, house-parties, dinners at the Eden.īefore long, however, Missie became sickened by the brutal and repressive nature of Nazi rule which overshadowed every aspect of her life. Marie `Missie' Vassiltchikov as a White Russian émigrée caught with her family in Hitler`s Germany at the outbreak of the war.
`A brilliant record of wartime Berlin as well as the haunting day-by-day life of a beautiful woman of almost unbelievable courage' Daily Mail Marie Missie Vassiltchikov as a White Russian emigree caught with her family in Hitlers Germany at the outbreak of the war. Reviewed by Carin Paris No doubt the horrors that went on in Germany during. Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945 by Marie Vassiltchikov 4.07avg. 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.
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