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At the time of her death on 11 March 2002, aged 92, Dönhoff was still co-publisher of the influential newspaper. She was the author of more than twenty books, including political and historical analyses of Germany as well as commentary on U.S.
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Kilian Heck / Christian Thielemann (eds.): Friedrichstein. The castle of the Counts of Dönhoff in East Prussia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 2006 and 2019, ISBN 978-3-422-07361-6
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sympathizers were said to have called her the "red countess" for her defiance once they gained power in 1933. She left Germany soon after, moving to
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and his wife, Maria von Lepel (1869–1940), daughter of Wilhelm Friedrich Karl von Lepel (1829-1888) and Countess Helene von
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Heck, Kilian & Christian Thielemann (Hrsg.): Friedrichstein. Das Schloß der Grafen von Dönhoff in Ostpreußen.
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troops rolled into the region, Dönhoff fled East Prussia, travelling seven weeks on horseback before reaching
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She was involved in helping refugees settle in West Germany from East Germany and other parts of Europe.
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as political editor. In August 1954, she temporarily left the newspaper in protest against articles by
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Amerikanische Wechselbäder : Beobachtungen und Kommentare aus vier Jahrzehnten, Stuttgart, 1983
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Von Schlabrendorff, Fabian. Offiziere gegen Hitler, a.a. O., 1945/1990 Bundesrepublik,
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Foe into Friend: The Makers of the New Germany from Konrad Adenauer to Helmut Schmidt
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in 1938, and joined the resistance movement, which led to questioning by the
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Weit ist der Weg nach Osten: Berichte und Betrachtungen aus fünf Jahrzehnten
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In 1946, Dönhoff joined the fledgling, Hamburg-based intellectual weekly
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in January 1945, is within the borders of what is now part of Russia (
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Um der Ehre willen', Erinnerungen an die Freunde vom 20 Juli
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Before the Storm: Memories of My Youth in Old Prussia
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Before the Storm: Memories of My Youth in Old Prussia
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Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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for some time, and became a close friend of Senator
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