Marion von Doenhoff, friend of Poland, dies in Germany at the age of 92
One of the most distinguished friends of Poland and one of the country's
leading supporters in Germany, countess Marion von Doenhoff, died yesterday
at her family castle of Crottorf after a long and painful illness. Born to
an old aristocratic family in Friedrichstein, Eastern Prussia, in 1909, she
took part in the attempt on Hitler's life during World War II. After fleeing
to the West as the Russian armies advanced at the end of the war, she became
one of the founders of, a life-time contributor to. and, in 1973, publisher
of leading newspaper Die Zeit. Widely criticized for her left-wing leanings,
Marion von Doenhoff was a strong proponent of German-Polish and
German-Russian reconciliation. (Gazeta Wyborcza, pp. 1, 2; Zycie, p. 2) M.K.
