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The | [The quotation below is an excerpt from diary notes by Sisi Wilczek (now Countess Geza Andrassy) from early May 1945. These notes appear in ''Berlin Diaries 1940-1945'' by [[Marie Vassiltchikof (nonfiction)|Marie Vassiltchikof]], known to her friends as Missie. | ||
General Patton's U.S. Third Army reached Gmunden on 4 May 1945; the following day saw the surrender of all German forces in Bavaria. Four days later, on 8 May, the war in Europe came formally to an end.] | |||
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One day an American jeep with two officers drove up to the Könininvilla. Since neither the estate manager, Herr Stracke, nor Fräulein Schneider spoke any English, Missie, who was working in the Cumberland Hospital across the park, was summoned to interpret. The two American officers visibly took an instant interest in Missie and, allegedly because the Russians were advancing and they wished to protect her from them, tried to persuade her to drive away with them. She refused, saying that she wouldn't leave me in the lurch; it was agreed that they would return in a couple of days. Meanwhile they forbade us to leave the house. Two days later they re-appeared and again urged this time both of us to go away with them. We refused. Whereupon they again forbade us to leave the house, saying that otherwise we would be shot. We now realised that the story about the allegedly approaching Russians was a sham and that they had something quite different in mind. Luckily we never saw them again. | |||
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War Diary quotations for May 5.
Quotations
May 1945
[The quotation below is an excerpt from diary notes by Sisi Wilczek (now Countess Geza Andrassy) from early May 1945. These notes appear in Berlin Diaries 1940-1945 by Marie Vassiltchikof, known to her friends as Missie.
General Patton's U.S. Third Army reached Gmunden on 4 May 1945; the following day saw the surrender of all German forces in Bavaria. Four days later, on 8 May, the war in Europe came formally to an end.]
<quotation> One day an American jeep with two officers drove up to the Könininvilla. Since neither the estate manager, Herr Stracke, nor Fräulein Schneider spoke any English, Missie, who was working in the Cumberland Hospital across the park, was summoned to interpret. The two American officers visibly took an instant interest in Missie and, allegedly because the Russians were advancing and they wished to protect her from them, tried to persuade her to drive away with them. She refused, saying that she wouldn't leave me in the lurch; it was agreed that they would return in a couple of days. Meanwhile they forbade us to leave the house. Two days later they re-appeared and again urged this time both of us to go away with them. We refused. Whereupon they again forbade us to leave the house, saying that otherwise we would be shot. We now realised that the story about the allegedly approaching Russians was a sham and that they had something quite different in mind. Luckily we never saw them again.
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