Volume 34, Number 6 · April 9, 1987
Living Through the War
By Gabriele Annan
Berlin Diaries: 1940–1945
by Marie Vassiltchikov
Knopf, 324 pp., $19.95
'Schloss Friedland, Monday, 1 January [1940]. Olga Pückler, Tatiana and I spent the New Year quietly at Schloss Friedland. We lit the Christmas tree and tried to read the future by dropping melted wax and lead into a bowl of water. We expect Mamma and Georgie to appear any minute from Lithuania. They have announced their arrival repeatedly. At midnight all the village bells began to ring. We hung out of the windows listening—the first New Year of this new World War.'
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