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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.

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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