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Evelyn Blucher

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Photographic frontispiece of Princess Evelyn Blücher.

SpC. 940.482 B658e1920

Evelyn, Princess Blücher (1876–1960)

At the onset of World War I, Evelyn's English nationality and alliances became complicated. Years before, she had married a German Prince. Now, her homeland and the Empire she married into were at war.
 
To make matters worse, the closure of the German embassy in London forced Blücher to return to Germany. During the war, she resided with her husband in Berlin and at the family estate in Silesia, now Poland.
 
Exiled from her family in England, Princess Blücher began to keep a day-to-day account for her mother. Her descriptions of the local life and conditions became the basis of her memoirs. In them, Blücher offers an account of the last weeks of the German Empire from the perspective of the aristocracy.