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For the final video of this series for the time being I would like to present another great Willy Berking recording : "Vergiss die Zeit unserer Liebe nicht" (lit. "Don't forget the time of our love". Vocals are provided by Karin von Bülow about whom I could find no information.... It is a bitter-sweet song about a love that has seemingly ended. The singer however still hopes her loved one will one day return and in the meantime she implores him not to forget about their love....

The video shows some of the realities of life in Berlin in 1943 and onwards...

For those interested in an inside look into life in Berlin during the Second World War I can recommend the "Berlin Diaries" by Marie "Missie" Wassiltchikoff (1917-78 - in English Vassiltchikov)... She was a White Russian princess whose family fled the Russian Revolution... Marie Wassiltchikoff and her sisters Tatiana and Irena were great beauties and educated in France, England and Germany before settling in Lithuania where the family owned an estate. Missie and her sister Tatiana were visiting friends in Germany when war broke out. Seperated from their family and In need of money they moved to Berlin where - thanks to their education and language skills - they found work at the Foreign Ministry (Missie started out at the Broadcasting Service).

Tatiana soon married Paul von Metternich and thus became Princess von Metternich. Until her death in 2006 she lived at Schloss Johannisberg near Mainz. Sister Irena lived in Italy and Missie' parents were once again on the run after the invasion of Lithuania by the Russian army. They also settled in Germany and lived at the Schloss Königswart - the Metternich Estate in Czechoslowakia. Missie's younger brother Georgie made his way to France where he settled in Paris and joined the Resistance.

The first years of Missie's wartime diaries depict the life of Berlin's high society with parties and oyster and champagne dinners (both not rationed)... However once friends start dying and the heavy raids on Berlin start , the diary becomes a detailed account of these raids and the effect they had on the city and the population... At the Foreign Ministry Marie Wassiltchikoff worked closely with Adam von Trott- zu Solz - one of the masterminds of the July 20 Plot to kill Adolf Hitler... She was part of this inner circle and as such also describes the persecution and demise of a large part of German aristocracy... Fearing for her life and with Berlin in ruins Missie went to Austria where she became a nurse and in the last days of the War was on the run for the advancing Russian troops who were unlikely to show any mercy towards a Russian princess...

In 1946 she married an American captain who became an internationally acclaimed architect. They lived in Paris and after his death Missie moved to London. Her family persuaded her to edit and publish her diaries... She died of Leukemia before they were published. It was her brother Prince Yuri "Georgie" Vassiltchikov who completed his sister's work. The diary became an international bestseller and is still in print...

The flip side of this record is "Sag es mir mit einem Kuss" which can be found in my channel :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWZVw611f9o

About the record :

Imperial
17 437/ mx. KC-29726
Berlin,
1943

Record in fair condition

This record was transferred and equalized using the Ortofon Om78 cartridge and stylus as well as a 78rpm phono preamp in order to get an acceptable 78rpm equalization!