Item 18

Left Page
wrote it in pencil.
Lucy is now going over it with ink.
She I sat
down next to her and wanted
to write with her. But she pushed
me away. And smeared everything.
Now I erased everything for her.
She is very proud that
she has a diary too.
Just now she wrote about how
Luise came from the hospital

Right Page
and was given a little brooch by
Mama.
London, August 20, 1938
The radical change [the Anschluss] was on March 11, 1938.
The evening before, there was already great
noise and confusion. During the night there were
already armed fighters at the border, from
Germany, and if Schuschnig [Schuschnigg]
had not gone, there would have been war,
where in which, naturally,
the Germans would have won. The next
morning, on the radio, there was already
a German announcer. Everything
was in a very great uproar.
The Aryans were, and now still
are, not satisfied at all.