The war was over. We had lost and we had to build our lives over again. As a child, I had not known the true atrocities of our nation. When I discovered them as a young bride in America, I could not accept them as true. Returning to Germany, I asked my father, a former officer in Hitler's SS, and my grandfather who had been against Hitler. They told me yes they were true and they had known. God have mercy!
Maria Graham, later Maria, Lady Callcott (sometimes credited as Maria Callcott), was a British writer of travel books and children's books, and also an accomplished illustrator.