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4 unusual facts about Marion Dönhoff


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2004 Marion Dönhoff Award for International Agreement and Conciliation

Marion Dönhoff

As a diplomat, he was located in Washington for some time, and became a close friend of Senator Carl Schurz.

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But she returned to her family home at Quittainen (Kwitajny), East Prussia, in 1938, and joined the resistance movement, which led to questioning by the Gestapo after a failed assassination attempt on Hitler in 1944.

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Marion Dönhoff (1909–2002), German journalist active in the anti-Nazi resistance



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