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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (19394)	6/1/2002 1:15:13 PM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

I just finished the book "Childhood in East Prussia" by Marion Gräfin Dönhoff. She was "one of the three" who ran die ZEIT. In the geography of German press I count this weekly as an absolute top and intellectual necessity. She was born into one of the oldest east-prussian aristocracy - Dönhoffs, who could prove their existence in that part of Europe all the way back to 1366. If you would apply the "how-many-films-to-Bacon" trick to her, she was three handshakes or less from Bismarck, Goethe, Moltke, Humboldt, Hindenburg, Friederich the Great (not to mention Wilhelm I)... She was involved in the Hitler atentat in 44 (the family seat Friedrichstein is/was 20 km from Königsberg and probably 50 km from Wolfschanze) and lost two cousins in the Führer's revenge. She lost 4 brothers in the war and joined the horrible treck due west in 45. The castle was burnt by the Red army and today there is absolutely nothing anymore there, in the enclave of Kaliningrad, that would hint at the 600 years of Dönhoff history. Excuse me: there's a school, bearing her name. As a sign of hope. If you see in your mind the picture of Wili Brandt kneeling in front of the Warshaw getto monument, you can think of the Gräfin (as everybody called her in Germany) off-picture. She was one of the driving forces behind the German-Polish rapprochement (having lost a lot, but not the hope and the heart): ask for forgiveness and forgive, to be forgiven. Comparing her to K. Graham would leave much of her moral force and influence in germany after 45 unaccounted for. What was I trying to say... Marion Gräfin Dönhoff died at the age of 82 about 1 month ago in Hamburg. Germany will miss her. [EDIT] Prussia? Is that not the place where those SS Officers with monocles, a cigarette on a Spitz and sadistic grin come from? No, must be some other place.